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    Electric Room heater: Personal experience help please?

    Hoping to get some recommendations from people who actually OWN and USE space heaters please. Daughter is renting unheated 270 sf studio in normal 40's building in Bay Area. Gets into low 40s at night. Oil filled radiator provided runs freezing one night and 90s next, so she's getting sleep...
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    Help! HOW do I put up Insulation: basic

    Hello again Friends, I have been following the garage door insulation posts for a few months. Finally ready to have someone come help me this weekend, and realized I still don't have a clue how to mount them, and how to get an ??? air space between the foil on each side? So I'm using the R13...
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    Quiet alternatives to mini-split?

    Hello all! Now that I have found out from all of you about how much installation runs for a mini-split, I know it's way out of my league. So I'm looking for options that will heat and cool a garage that will double as a guest space -- so has to be reasonably quiet and work reasonably well and...
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    Insulating Garage Door

    Hello. I am looking into insulating my garage door, but the kits have a ridiculously low R value -- 4-8. Has anyone ever used anything else? I will be hiring a handyman to do it for me, so experience is not an issue. The walls and attic are all insulated -- I don't know the R number, but it...
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    To dig or not to dig? (sewer line)

    Hello all. I am putting a three piece bathroom in my garage. It's going to cost me several thousand dollars to have the slab opened and the drains/sewer lines installed. What about a sewer ejector pump instead? I read a ten year old post elsewhere that said that the macerating toilets are...
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    Hot Climate advice needed

    Hello All! I am so impressed with what I have seen and heard here, perhaps you can give me some advice on HVAC for my garage. I live inland CA, near Sacramento. It doesn't get very cold (rarely below 40) but in the summer it is HOT! It can be over 100 (dry thankfully) during the day, for a...
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