Recent content by akpolaris

You are building a house in addition to a $200 K garage with the same builder. That a lot of work for 1 builder. I think i would start to scrutinize the specs on the house. Did you shop the cost of the house with any other contractor? It would seem that the garage and house would share...

Years ago I had a chocolate lab that got a corn cob lodged in his intestine and blocked him up. The neighbor kids fed it to him. It was an expensive surgery. Of course, I was away deer hunting and my wife had to lug the 110 lb dog into the truck and drive 120 miles (both ways) to the vets...

Thank you

I am remote so no rental of tools is a possibility. I purchased a diamond wheel and shroud assembly off Amazon. I planned on an epoxy paint since it is a small are with only foot traffic. Some is under a crowded stairway, really a cramped area. My main need is cement dust control. In the...

I guess so

Did I ask this question wrong?

I am planning on coating and entranceway and boiler room with some kind of epoxy treatment, haven't settled on which application yet. There aren't any oil staining problems but there is paint residue along the walls. I see most of the instructions require pretreatment of the surface by etching...

No our temps here are not extreme, very temperate, rain, sleet, snow all at once sometimes. You said 1960, before the earthquake. That make you a bit long in the tooth. You would never recognize the place today

I have found a Honeywell YTH6320R1001 that I believe meets my needs. When I closed in the walls for the apartment and sheetrocked the furnace room I overlooked the wiring needed for a thermostat in the apartment. All the walls are closed in and stuffed with rockwool. Snaking the wires now...

All the info I found on the thermostats talks only about the thermostat and how to wire them in. Is this possible without any wires? And what actuated the valve at the boiler to provide hot water to the baseboards? Wireless, to me, means no wires. Wireless communications between thermostat...

If they have to come out in pieces how does the new tank shoehorn in?

I have a shop that I am building a small apartment in. Radiant heat from a toyo boiler in the cement slab supplied bu a Toyo boiler. 3 zone manifold; 1 for slab, 1 for residential water heater and the 3rd designated for the 2 baseboards in the apartment. I neglected to run any wire for a...

The receptical has a flat and the plug is round. They do fit together.

The saga continues. The cord does not have the flat design that the plug has. Is it a suitable match up?

I much more enjoy living in a rural community that does not even have a traffic light. Now that the cruise ships and touristas are winding up life is quieted down tremendously.