Recent content by minute_basset

Thanks for the input - greatly appreciated and helpful!

We'll be spray foam insulating our 30x40 garage; R-22 walls, R-49 roof. We've been considering different heating options including Mitsubishi Hyperheat mini splits in both the garage and the apartment space overhead. We're in VT. There's a stairwell perpendicular to the long wall partially...

We bought a 60s era multi-level house that had a dry basement. It looked pretty tired and ragged. The realtor we worked with talked about how painting the basement floor really helps with resale, so the first thing we did when we moved in was paint it with a concrete paint. It really made a...

Thanks Jim. I've been thinking about that. In working with Mitsubishi when sizing a system for a High Performance Habitat build I was involved in here in VT, they were in the process of re-assessing some design recommendations for installations in Cold Climates. For instance, they have been...

So, does anyone else have an apartment setup over their garage and if so, how did you insulate and heat the the 2 floors. What kind of extra sealing did you do to separate the potential garage related fumes/odors from the living space? Thank you.

This is a little long with a few moving parts to be tuned... Anyone with a similar configuration? We built our engineered pre-fabricated garage-mahal a few years ago with the intention of insulating, heating and finishing the 2nd floor studio "some day". We have an immediate need to get the...

The unit that goes to -15 is the HyperHeat model. Mitsubishi also makes a floor mounted hyper heat head. It's pretty slick. We just installed one in a high performance Habitat for Humanity house in Vermont. It's also a tad more efficient as the temp sampling occurs closer to the floor where...