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I have been running a Keystoker KA-6 coal fired stoker boiler for 10 years. When I bought it Rice coal was $85 a ton, today picked up at the breaker in Tamaqua Pa. $195 a ton. Still the cost per BTU of coal is about half of the cost of NG in my area (south east Pa). This unit has run flawlessly...

6" compacted stone,16 mil of plastic vapor barrier 2" XPS, 2" Chairs,1/2 rebar,wire mesh over the rebar, 3/4 pex tyrap to wire mesh, THEN 8" concrete. I don't have enough energy to do it again!

One nice thing I like about 7/8 pex is it is spaced 16" oc soooooooo..... when you want bolt down equipment , like a lift or 2, machinery, air comp. ect. you have half the limitations you would with 1/2" pex spaced 8"oc. In my living areas I would use 1/2" pex, the shop is a work area always...

Have you considered a dehumidifier for a quick fix. During the spring when my heat is not running and before I turn the Air Cond on, my basement is aways damp. I run a dehumidifer with a small floor fan to circulate the air. My wife says she doesn't use the close dryer because the close dry so fast.

A 50 gallon barrel of anthracite rice coal would probably heat my house and garage when the outside temp is 0 degrees F, keeping it a nice comfy70 degrees F inside, for more than a week! I got wood but I heat with coal.

If you mean concrete masonary unit you can easily drill a series of holes verry close to one another with a hammer drill and a carbide masonary bit, But not Brick. Your better off renting a core-bore drill with a daimond bore tool. the boring tools are avilable in many different diamaters from...

I think Freon refers to any of a group of chemically unreactive chlorofluorocarbons used as aerosol propellants, refrigerants, and solvents. In the 80's we used it to clean semi-conductor wafers in liquid form.

Have you considered using a coal fired boiler? You are right on the edge of the Suidi Arabia of of Anthracite coal country. EFM and Keystoker are 2 local boiler manufactures in your area. They make residential boilers from 75,000 to 250,000BTUs. I have been using a Keystoker boiler for the last...

I currently have a 150,000BTU coal fired stoker boiler, so my hot water is already in place. With the house and shop my figures indicate that I will consume approx. 105,000 of them, the left over BTU's I plan to use for snow melt. I hate snow removal. Other than that I'm just plain CHEAP...

Here is a post on this tread. http://www.lowes.com/pd_96554-46086-...7C1&facetInfo= I am using 2" insulation over 4" 3/4 clean stone compacted with 2 layers of 4mil poly, with 6 to 7"...

If we could get back to the original post, RTcat was heating a shop. I am also in the prosess doing a 48x16 shop with 3/4 pex so I can space the tubing farther apart because I have equipment I will be bolting to the concrete. I'm using 2" insulation around the block walls and 2" in the floor...

Ever had a washing machine line break? I wood use only a sweat joint or at worst a compression joint.

Did you consider extending the existing pipe by adding a 90* elbow and run the pipe up the outside of the house above the roofline, and terminate away from the window? I have a 94+ gas furnace, and I wood move both. My furnace came with a termination kit.

In the 25+ years as a landscape contractor I have never used, or heard of any other contractor use plastic under sidewalks. There are some good performance points to this thread, but I see no point in using plastic under concrete outdoors.

You do not have to spend a lot of time cleaning the pavers, just knock the mud off the sides and bottom with a hand trowel. Prepare your base, (Verry Important) 4" Compacted of 3/4" stone then screet 1" of concrete sand on top of the compacted stone, and lay the pavers. For best results compact...