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Snow in the South?
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tonybolton
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Damn, did you flip it over?!??! LOL
Also, speaking of 1st world problems.....I got a head light out. Time to start a GoFundMe account.
Also, speaking of 1st world problems.....I got a head light out. Time to start a GoFundMe account.
We got just a normal gas heat. It's been in single digits and low teens and it will run for maybe 15-20 minutes and shut off for 45-hour maybe more. Never really timed it. We keep thermostat at 67-68*.
May depend on how well your house is insulated and where your thermostat is at. Ours is in a hallway but with a bathroom directly across from it. I keep the register completly closed in the bathroom and others in the vicinity closed down to keep from kicking it off too soon. Its a balancing act if you really think hard about it. I have a summer register set-up and a winter set-up. Open more downstairs in winter cause heat rises, and closed in summer. Bedroom most are closed in winter cause it gets too hot if we have door closed to sleep, but open in summer to keep it cooler.
Condition, amount and single or double pane windows make a huge difference too
May depend on how well your house is insulated and where your thermostat is at. Ours is in a hallway but with a bathroom directly across from it. I keep the register completly closed in the bathroom and others in the vicinity closed down to keep from kicking it off too soon. Its a balancing act if you really think hard about it. I have a summer register set-up and a winter set-up. Open more downstairs in winter cause heat rises, and closed in summer. Bedroom most are closed in winter cause it gets too hot if we have door closed to sleep, but open in summer to keep it cooler.
Condition, amount and single or double pane windows make a huge difference too
tonybolton
Bypass Crawler
My house has some sealing issues in various places. I can't seem to find the right material that will bond to cardboard well. Tried Big Red, Hubba Bubba but they don't last.
(((see what I did there)))
(((see what I did there)))
broncomike
Blount County Al
halcat said:
There wasn't a gazillion lawyer billboards around back then.
Jody Treadway
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About 2" of snow here in Asheville but the temp is right around 15*. Roads are pretty horrible out there
Luckily I have a JK to add hydro assist to in the shop today...
Luckily I have a JK to add hydro assist to in the shop today...
tonybolton
Bypass Crawler
Jody Treadway said:
Put some studs in them tarz!
I'm gonna be a player and document my build in the shop thread when I'm done.
I suppose it's not a huge surprise but I wonder why more of the true subzero guys on here don't run hydronic radiant heat. Meaning floor heat that is run by woven circuits of pex tubing inside the slab or routed between your joists that recirculates hot water inside of a closed system to heat the floor.
Then it radiates upward to heat everything in contact with the floor as well as evenly heating an entire room or house level.
On top of pulling crazy low amps so you can run your heat on a small generator in a power outage. As well as almost never running your furnace through the winter months.
I'm in the middle of my shop build and I have run my 1200ft of tubing among other install procedures.
Anyway, that's what I'm doing these days along with a home build that will have 3 separately controlled zones so when I'm 70 my wife and I can heat only the common areas while we die slowly. Lol
But yeah it's cold here
I'll post up the build in the shop thread when I'm done
I suppose it's not a huge surprise but I wonder why more of the true subzero guys on here don't run hydronic radiant heat. Meaning floor heat that is run by woven circuits of pex tubing inside the slab or routed between your joists that recirculates hot water inside of a closed system to heat the floor.
Then it radiates upward to heat everything in contact with the floor as well as evenly heating an entire room or house level.
On top of pulling crazy low amps so you can run your heat on a small generator in a power outage. As well as almost never running your furnace through the winter months.
I'm in the middle of my shop build and I have run my 1200ft of tubing among other install procedures.
Anyway, that's what I'm doing these days along with a home build that will have 3 separately controlled zones so when I'm 70 my wife and I can heat only the common areas while we die slowly. Lol
But yeah it's cold here
I'll post up the build in the shop thread when I'm done
onepieceatatime
I like turtles...
Re: Re: Snow in the South?
That's the reason were putting a wood furnace in our basement. It'll have an outlet plumbed to the register and an outlet blowing in the basement that'll hopefully help keep the basement and first floor floors warm.
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LightBnDr said:
That's the reason were putting a wood furnace in our basement. It'll have an outlet plumbed to the register and an outlet blowing in the basement that'll hopefully help keep the basement and first floor floors warm.
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Jody Treadway
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tonybolton said:Put some studs in them tarz!
Sticky SX's bark on ice. :****:
tonybolton
Bypass Crawler
....rub it in.Jody Treadway said:
ForMud
Well-Known Member
LightBnDr said:
One of my biggest regrets when I built my shop was not running the lines in the concrete. Even if you don't have the money for the whole system, you'll have the lines in place when you do have the money.
blacksheep10
XBJRA champ/ 555 and team Nasty codriver
We just put pex in Dad's shop floor, just not sure how to warm the water yet. When I build my shop house, doing it there as well. The one time I worked a COLD weekend in a hydronic radiant floor shop I was blown the F away. I mean, long sleeve t shirt and it was 20 outside. No furnace running, no hot and cold zones, everything you touch is warm and radiating heat to you. Super badassLightBnDr said:
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TacomaJD
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Sumbitch, water is froze in our 2nd bathroom. The hot water, not the cold water, which is crazy. My buddy we bought the house from said all water supply lines are pex, so they shouldn't bust, but I dont see it thawing before tomorrow. Was 12° a couple hours ago (around 10am).
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TacomaJD said:Sumbitch, water is froze in our 2nd bathroom. The hot water, not the cold water, which is crazy. My buddy we bought the house from said all water supply lines are pex, so they shouldn't bust, but I dont see it thawing before tomorrow. Was 12° a couple hours ago (around 10am).
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Definitely need to look into some insulation. 12 isn't cold enough to freeze in a heated house.
TacomaJD
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I'd imagine they are froze in the crawl space. One thing I have got to change on this house is the vents in foundation. They are open screen vents, no option to close them to keep the wind out. My old house had ones that you could slide open or closed. The frozen 2nd bathroom is on the end of the house the wind has been blowing against, so I figure the wated lines probably run close to a foundation vent and the wind helped freeze em. Nothing is frozen in the kitchen or master bath.
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I'd imagine they are froze in the crawl space. One thing I have got to change on this house is the vents in foundation. They are open screen vents, no option to close them to keep the wind out. My old house had ones that you could slide open or closed. The frozen 2nd bathroom is on the end of the house the wind has been blowing against, so I figure the wated lines probably run close to a foundation vent and the wind helped freeze em. Nothing is frozen in the kitchen or master bath.
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