Recent content by BurtEggley

you can get bedroom sets that match the rest of the house, or come close, and have it keyed differently. Just don't lose the key or have a medical emergency with the door locked... .

Sherwin Williams is a great paint, and what I use and would use. Usually their techs will steer you to the right paint based on your need. However, if low price is the goal, and having many color tints does not matter, often counties have cheap remix paint that come in thru HHW that is...

I was thinking about this compared to what we did here. About five years ago we decided to upgrade the insulation. This house was built in 1979 and had 3.5" (2x4) of blown in insulation. It used to get so hot up there that one could see waves in the drywall ceiling when light was at a low...

I am puzzled. 1) if the unit is worn out after 26 years, how will just changing refrigerant help matters? 2) If the whole system is being changed, why would someone not use the engineering plans from the new manufacturer to see if their lines spec out for the new unit, tonnage, and distance...

3 ton with R60 insulation. Make sure you do the math well on the replacement unit. Electric prices have not caught up yet to oil, but they will. For example, much of the SW uses power from hydro electric on the Colorado River. It has been so overused that it is at historic lows, and that power...

There is no reason someone has to have a hot attic if they plan good venting and roof tiles. Go up there early in the morning while it is cool and look around. Make sure that the soffit vents have a path for air to flow. Sometimes insulation can cover those up. Personally I like more than a...

I have used air on it to clean it already. Didn't help. I went ahead and bought a hose set from Amazon that was recommended by member beerhippie.

thank you. I'll take a look at that hose. Already have filter bags and sometimes use a cyclone with it for the glass bead cabinet. As to the fan in the sander - don't know what else to do with it. The holes are open, the fan is part of the armature and spins. The slots are open. The fan just...

is the floor painted? the sun heats the concrete and the bottom seal will stick to the painted surface. Putting silicone down might stop it but you will never paint their again without fish eye. You may be hearing that. The same might happen to the side seal if the door has been painted to...

A couple years ago I bought a Makita palm sander. It came with its own bag. When I used it to sand some areas of paint, it did fine sanding the paint, but I never could figure how to make the bag work correctly. The holes in the paper are in the right place, the path is open, but sanding dust...

have an ecobee system like that. It has been very consistent. It only averages the rooms it feels activity in.

if your attic gets to 150F, you mighty consider better designed venting. Even on a 110F day here this attic over a one story only gets to about 115F. It used to be worse but adding better venting solved that. Then in winter, ours is one of the few homes who still have frost on it late in the...

Mike - you have probably already figured it out. When the single phase lines come into the house, the two alternating current legs are essentially 180 degrees apart. Compared to the neutral wire, when one is positive 120V the other is negative 120V. This gives two legs that are 120V between each...

how often do you change the oil? I think in the 30 years I have owned two of those pumps, I've changed the oil maybe twice, and it is due again. The oil is always clean when I drain it, and the level is always full.

let us know how it goes.