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  1. Tom Raymond
    Call a few electricians. When I upgraded the service at my house the electrician's price for the whole job was cheaper than I could buy the materials for. I saved money and got out of some work. That's a win win.
  2. Tom Raymond
    Bubble wrap isn't insulation, it's a radiant barrier. The published R value is based on testing that bears little resemblance to the recommended uses. The only way to get anything approaching the advertised R is to provide significant air space between the 'insulation' and the object being insulated.
  3. Tom Raymond
    By that definition my house has a "cellar" if I'm in it, but a "basement" if the wife is.
  4. Tom Raymond
    Oooh, insured to cool million! Chump!
  5. Tom Raymond
    C'mon, with an outdoor stat, an auto damper, and a really good CO detector they could easily reach 60%[:-graduat
  6. Tom Raymond
    That's very cool, got a bigger image?
  7. Tom Raymond
    It's excessive, but it ain't Mob Boss excessive. It's attached to a cheap-o cultured marble vanity. No self respecting gangster would be caught dead with fake marble. Sheesh!
  8. Tom Raymond
    Did he look at the gas valve or the circ pump? Just the little bit I can see in the pictures has me thinking his guess is at least a decade too new. Gee, Marc's link confirms my thinking.
  9. Tom Raymond
    I think some nice new base sheet and rubber would fix it nicely. I'm wondering of this turkey would be qualified to land if he were to fall off that roof?
  10. Tom Raymond
    Those are tasteful[:-yuck]
  11. Tom Raymond
    Ah! It all seems so clear now.[:-blindfo
  12. Tom Raymond
    Me either, and what does it have to do with a hacksaw?
  13. Tom Raymond
    Turn it around. The frequency of the vibrations have to be 180 degrees out of phase in order to cancel each other out.[:-graduat How much does an HVAC guy get to turn around an airhandler anyway? and where's the rim shot smiley?
  14. Tom Raymond
    John, it sounds like you're remodeling this place backwards. Quit working around obstacles and gut that place already. A new service and a rewire will be real easy then.
  15. Tom Raymond
    I'm sure you all noticed the second ad...who knew that real estate was that hot down under?
  16. Tom Raymond
    Nobody uses butyl anymore, think polymers.
  17. Tom Raymond
    Jimmy, You are absolutely spot on about your project-funky retrofits can go horribly, horribly wrong-but Bain is talking new work, and for that foam is the only way to go. Foam insulation is one of the few trends in new construction that is actually extending the useful life of a building, the current thinking places the life span of a modern building at 25 years.
  18. Tom Raymond
    I had a panel with multiple cooked wires once, but there where so many loose connections that lights all over the house flickered when I removed the dead front.
  19. Tom Raymond
    Loose connection(s)? There is debris between the top two neutrals and severe corrosion on the bottom two in that pic, does it really matter? You've got more than enough to call in a sparky, and the melted wires reinforce the importance of doing so sooner rather than later.
  20. Tom Raymond
    It's ok though, since electrical components don't require freeze protection[:-banghea
  21. Tom Raymond
    Outdoor stats are cheap, wouldn't the system be even more efficient if it had a means to control the number of strips it energizes? Or do they run so little that it wouldn't justify complicating the controls?
  22. Tom Raymond
    Start small, the kabooms get exponentially bigger as capacitor size increases[]
  23. Tom Raymond
    My brother works for an abatement firm, and the drywall contractor repeatedly delayed one project by complaining that the asbestos containment was inadequate. He had no idea that he had been breathing contaminated plaster dust for most of his career.
  24. Tom Raymond
    That reminded me that when I was a kid, 10 I think, I made a rig specifically to explode capacitors. My boy is 9, and since my wife won't let me teach him how to drive a stick (I was 9 when I learned, she's only fussy cause it's her car) maybe it's time to teach him the joy of a dead short.
  25. Tom Raymond
    Yeah, now that you mention it. The sand right against the drum never went into the mortar. The process was to turn over the sand, so the cold stuff could be warmed up and the warm stuff went into the mix. If the 'burnt' sand was dug into, that scoop was tossed aside and more sand was piled on the fire.
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