kurt
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Of course a nap...after a cigarette.....
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There's good and excellent ways to do this, but it's complicated and detailed to a degree that builders/developers just plain don't get. Kelly has done flashing improvements and retrofits on these, and it's complicated. Well, not complicated, but very specific and detailed.
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There's some things humans are not meant to know, Marc.
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Yes, not bad. The whole primary secondary looping methods were problematic, I know that, not the least of which was the expense. The hydraulic separation method makes for a simpler less expensive installation.
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Garage door safety reverse beams
kurt replied to Mike Lamb's topic in Open Discussion Forum (Chit-Chat)
Mr. O's back. Calm down. I report it. 6", no more no less, I get it. -
Go to youtube and check out the caleffi stuff.
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What Kibbel said. It's about the closely spaced tees. The term we need to learn is "hydraulic separation". Google it, it explains everything. I'd not heard of this before. Hydraulic separation is the new terminology and standard of care for these systems. http://www.caleffi.com/sites/default/fi ... n-tr07.pdf My (minimal) understanding at this time sez the tees should have been much more closely spaced, and there should have been at least 12" of pipe before connecting to the system loop.....or something like that. But, overall, not wrong.
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Good idea.... http://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion ... k/p1?new=1
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Yes, and exactly. I don't understand what prevents a short circuit. The floor warmed up just fine, came to temp, nothing seemed strange, but I'm still confused how it's working.
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I'm glad we cleared that up.
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Garage door safety reverse beams
kurt replied to Mike Lamb's topic in Open Discussion Forum (Chit-Chat)
If you mashed a little kid in between those beams, it'd stop the door. What's the problem? -
This is a sort of strange arrangement for the radiant system. It's not a primary-secondary loop system; it's got the return and supply both on the same loop....sort of. Is this right? Click to Enlarge 80.03 KB
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Radon - Record Level
kurt replied to Bill Kibbel's topic in Indoor Air Quality (I.A.Q.) and Mold Forum
People around here freak out when it's 4.1 pCi/l. I'm not kidding. 3.9....whew...we're safe. 4.1? RUN, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!! I think the highest I've ever found was a 47 pCi/l, and that ended up being about 17 pCi/l on retesting. Mitigation systems must be pretty standard out there. -
Garage door safety reverse beams
kurt replied to Mike Lamb's topic in Open Discussion Forum (Chit-Chat)
I finally found one of these the other day. After years of seeing other guys find them, I finally found one, and felt my life was complete. -
I was making a joke about the SM thing...although I did deactivate my FB account, but not because of anything Fabry posted. In the twilight of my HI career, I am very fortunate to not have to rely on FB, or apparently anything else, to keep jobs coming in. It just happens.
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This has me remembering X10 systems....possibly the buggiest and goofiest early attempt at control system wiring.
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Me? I don't even know. I don't care. If it ever comes up and the State sanctions me, I'll just retire. I'm ready anyway.
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E&O w/ a GL rider. So, both.
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[:-eyebrow
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There's also the incredibly local nature of this thing we do. I couldn't competently inspect a property in Florida or Oregon, and there is no way in hell anyone not well versed in Chicago weirdness could inspect in my market. Folks would get a lot of things right here and there, but none of it would have the necessary contextual balance that comes from knowing an area.
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You ought to see what he does when you make fun of him for using words like "imbricate". He actually writes more than a paragraph.
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You're right. It behaves very strangely when opened and used on a phone. Do you get it zooming in when you hit "Post New Reply"? Mine will zoom in about 100x, where a few letters fill up the whole screen. Sometimes it won't let me see the "typing box"; as soon as I hit a key, it will jump down and the screen changes. Agreed, not mobile friendly. Which is OK, I guess. We rarely get youngsters in here. Old farts still use computers, where it works OK.
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The two houses I looked at....both had the problem in a 3rd fl. office/rooftop deck access "penthouse". Conventional wood structure. There's a lot of 3 story flat roof house in Chicago where the top floor is largely a stairwell enclosure that opens out onto a roof deck. Sometimes they're in the middle with decks on both sides. Sometimes they're larger, and contain an office or wetbar area.
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Sounds exactly like my experience. Installer dumbfounded, "never had it happen before", all the same explanations about electronically calibrated equipment making it impossible to screw up, etc..... And, it isn't water "pushing the smell out". The stuff is water resistant, as you note. It eventually got around to tearing stuff out, and we found elongated weird gooey spots with a few globs. No reasonable explanation was ever determined. We don't know why it went bad, but it went bad.
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It's why I deactivated my FB account.....among other things.