Recent content by akpingel

Good call about code. I blanked on that and I may not be able to use OSB here. I went straight to thinking about getting rid of the flimsy fiberboard for something more rigid.

My house was built in the 70s and it is time to refinish the original garage walls. They were junk fiberboard and had many holes throughout. I pulled the first wall out and cleaned up and I've got a quick question. Should I add fireblocking to these walls or is that a waste of time? I have r13...

Interesting. Im only 2 weeks in so I've got some time to mess with it. Right now, 80.4 and 46% RH and I cant be happier!

Anyone know from experience if the dry mode is substantially cheaper to run continuously than cool mode?

Hey Ryan, your TV is awesome! I love this idea and want to do one myself now. Beautiful execution with it. Alex

You can do this with the ecobee. I have only owned the ecobee but I am happy with it. My reason for chosing it was price, and after futzing with Nest's in AirBNBs it seemed it couldnt be worse than those. If I had to get a new thermostat today it would be the ecobee no question. Word of...

Yes it should cover the hole. Are you using the template?

Mounted and installed. Currently running and a few things to tidy up like putting the wall back together and running a line cover. Can't believe how quiet the condenser is. I'll check in here in the summer when it gets stupid hot out. Currently my shop is only insulated in the walls so I'm...

Just picked up a 36k unit. Couple things are odd. Ingrams says it needs an 8/3 wire but looks like you only need 8/2. Bought their pigtail and it is too large to mount to the condenser through the prepunched holes. What gives? Anyone wall mount a 36k condenser on cinder block? Sent from my...

North Carolina resident here. I have reached a point where I think I want to give one of these a go. My question is this. I have pitched ceiling in my 30x50 shop that is not insulated nor ventilated. I assume that by running this I will get nowhere near the expected efficiency but can I...

I've got an unusual shop in that the structure is old but the location is relatively new. I think the slab would have been poured around 2007. Anyway I noticed one corner is moving, essentially sinking in the corner at the edge of the shop and rising in the opposite corner of the slab (each...

+1 for the CLT market being super hot. For what its worth I have a buddy that just had his shop quoted 92k by the folks building his house. Sorry I dont remember the size but comparable... maybe slightly bigger but I dont know about concrete.

Agreed, and I wonder if the OP has since changed this in the near seven years that have passed since the resto.

Rayra, that is AWESOME!

I'm currently building a wall of drawers and it is adding up in costs because of the materials I chose. I can offer that the costs of drawer slides, drawer pulls, pocket screws all add up to quite a bit of additional expense. I could have used dowels, home made drawer pulls, and no drawer...