Recent content by PoorUB

Where I live the gas supplier doesn't twitch until the residence gets somewhere over 1mil BTU. Seems to me we ran into a house that the total load was 1.7mil and the largest meter the utility had for residential was 1.5mil. Over that is was the huge rotary commercial meter. We have added...

I used to sell and install Generac. I thought about putting one on my house, then decided the ever ten years longer power outage didn't justify it. I have a 7,000 watt portable that works just fine for my situation. We have been in this house for 35 years and have had one power outage that...

They will, but the demand for R12 is terrible. I worked for an HVAC wholesaler for ten years. We had two 30 pound drums of R12 and would weigh the drum when it left and when it came back and sell it for $30 a pound. We might have sold ten pounds in ten years. So yes we got $30 a pound for it...

IMO, the way they hold up to use and abuse over time, Fluke is the cheaper meter because you just buy it once. I have owned Field Piece and others I can't recall and none lasted more than a couple years. So what did you gain if you have to replace a meter every few years or run a Fluke forever...

I bought a Fluke meter back in the 80's and used it for a few years, in may have been a 77, but I forget. Around 2000 I switched jobs and bought a new Fluke and gave the old one to my dad. Pop passed away in 2021 and cleaning out his mess I ran across the old fluke and it had good batteries in...

To me a cage nut is an actual nut clipped into a spring clip.

Two options, Fill the tires as far as you can, then let the compressor cycle, you might have to blow off some air to get the switch to kick in, and then fill the tires the rest of the way when the tank is nearly full, or swap out the pressure switch with one that has a narrower off/on set points.

ZK, you should get a hobby, maybe alcoholism. It might be cheaper! :ROFLMAO:

My garage is dry wall and would do it again with out question. I taped it and sprayed a light texture over it. I did have one wall where my truck was parked against it and eventually the dry wall turned to mush from snow melting and dripping. I cut it up three feet and put in sheets of cement...

We have electric floor heat in our bathroom, the floor temp 'stat is set at 82F and feels warm on our feet.

Yup!

That would be fine for domestic hot water, but it wouldn't be close to enough for the floor heat. The recovery on a HPWH is very low. It works fine for people that don't use much water, or use hot water often so it has time to regenerate. As for floor heat the floor pump ran the tank would get...

4350 feet x 30 BTU gets you 130,000 BTU. So for the existing you need 130,000 BTU. Then add any anticipated additions, or the second floor in your case. Also you 50x80 comes to 4,000 sqft. Most of the time, for floor tubing in normal situations we always ended up with I foot of tubing per 1 sqft...

How many feet of tubing? Roughly 30 BTU per foot, so no sense in putting i a larger boiler than the tubing can handle. Yes and no. The manual J might come out higher than the floor tubing can use. If the building needs 100,000 BTU, but he has only 50,000 BTU of tubing a larger boiler is a waste.

Read the manual for the furnace. Generally the exhaust is directed straight out and the intake might be cut closer to the wall, straight out or angled down. You said it was a 120K BTU. Probably 3", but pay attention to the instructions. Often you can penetrate the outside wall with 2"