Recent content by dziskovs

I've got a whole basket of other issues that are hopefully addressed now on my geothermal HVAC system setup from a different thread which should take care of a good deal of electrical usage, but hopefully that goes down even further now...

Yeah, I had done the ACH50 math on my PC but didn't want to turn it back on, so your numbers match what I recall with 8 ft ceilings. Agree that it is decent, but I expected a pretest result of like 8 ACH50, and was hoping to get to ~6 ACH50 after air sealing. If they are believable, I'm happy...

Recently finished having someone air seal and reinsulate my attic since we are mostly done with renovations, and I'm not sure if I'm blown away or skeptical of the blower door test results. Curious of others feedback on the topic. House details: 1976 construction 2 story Gambrel Roof Home with...

Wanted to close out this thread. I ended up using my closed cell spray foam guy that I have used in the past, and he knocked it out between rough in and drywall and fit me in last minute for ~$500 all in. We used a menards mineral wool product for interior wall sound proofing. Thanks for...

Certainly there is air leaking around and through windows, and wall insulation has visible mold from moisture. This house had a leaky roof, termites and carpenter ants which are all mitigated now, and this is the last room we are renovating in our two year process. The windows are also being...

Thanks for the suggestions. The only electrical on the exterior wall is the junction box for the exterior flood lights that you can see near the closest window, so it should be relatively easy to seal around it. In regards to the flash and batt, I've used the diy froth pack 200 kits on rim...

Trying to work out the best method for insulating this sloped wall assembly in 2nd floor master bathroom remodel of my gambrel roof house. Note the backside of this wall is a steep pitched asphalt shingled roof. There are obvious signs of moisture in the walls now, so I will be removing the...

Apologies as I posted and kind of forgot about this. Plumber was supposed to come today with camera, but they broke it at the stop before mine, so we are rescheduling now. I did put in a Tee Fitting in the hole I dug and added a PVC stand pipe connected to a pop up drain when I filled the hole...

The hole I dug is already on their property. Pretty good relationship, but I doubt they would be super comfortable with me boring a line under their driveway given I cross every major utility supply for their house to do so. I've got the plumber coming back out with water jet and camera to...

Going to see about adding a tee fitting, and seeing if they can come back out with the camera and water jet. Might be a few hundred dollars for the service call, but if it saves me from digging a 4 ft deep hole in hard clay soil, it might be worth it.

I'm in NW Ohio, so spring is usually a month and a half of rain every other day. This summer has been relatively dry.

Had my buried downspouts waterjetted and all were cleared except the one circled in image below: The East side of garage and SE corner of the house are both tee'd into one black 4 inch corrugated drainage pipe as shown. The water jet head couldn't push much further than the circle which is...

Hot water tank is connected in series from geo to HW tank to Gas Tankless HW Heater. The HW tank is not plugged into wall (basically just an insulated reservoir, and Gas tankless heats water if demand/ temps call for it. In general, I think the problems are mostly resolved after having to...

The way my system is setup (now), is that it looks at Leaving Air Temperature (LAT) and Outside Air Temperature (OAT). I have an Arzel GTPro 3 zone control board. Stage Timers are turned off, and OAT Balance point is now turned off. What that means is that for Oct, Nov, Dec, and part of...

So have an update on Geothermal electric usage... long story short, changing the setting didn't really address the issue. I've been tracking daily meter readings relative to temperature, and have used 1400 kWh so far this month (average of 73.7 kWh/ day). Daily high was 160 kWh in a 24 hour...