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Just scored myself a new Hydro-Shark 3 SH-29 off Ebay for $350!!! My deal of the year, methinks. Got the wire for it Friday and the additional breaker Saturday. Just need a few plumbing bits and an expansion tank. Also scored several sheets of slatwall off Craigslist a couple months back so I...

I built a couple of F.A.T's (Floating Arm Trebuchet) with my son & his friends when they were in Cub Scouts. There's a program floating around on the 'net that can help you design 'em. Cool project for your kid to learn welding on. My last one. Gave it away, now I live on 5 acres & wish I had...

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, just need to find a money tree to shake for the boiler and a lift...all in due time.

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Snapped a couple of cell phone pics when I took the dog out last night. I put 1.5" XPS pieces behind all of the posts and sprayed expanding foam all along the bottom between the siding and skirt boards to seal up those air leaks. The 3" XPS is attached to the girts except for an area behind the...

Finally been cranking away on the insulation the past few weekends and I'm a little better than 3/4's of the way done with insulating the walls (have to get in behind the stacks of insulation to get at the last two sections of the north wall). It looks a little crazy since much of it was painted...

I would use the cords from servers, UPS's and the like...heavier gauge, heavier duty, intended for higher temps. If the teardown guys haven't gotten to the last batch of UPS's yet, I can snip a few off and send them to you just let me know how many you need. I think I have 4-6 leftovers down in...

What I did with mine was put single gang boxes in the ceiling and installed receptacles in them (I had a bunch of receptacles and wall plates leftover from switching over to Decora stuff in the house) and installed power cords w/plugs salvaged from various items at work (UPS', power strips...

Thanks guys...unfortunately that wasn't the end of things for July; my wife's stepmother passed away right after we got back from Jersey. This has been my first 'normal' week in a month. Probably going out to Pittsburgh this weekend to haul back my buddy's '67 Firebird (all original, numbers...

Got plenty of insulation to do the job and will probably have enough left for when I finish the basement. Mom passed away unexpectedly on July 9th, so I've been back home in Jersey and haven't gotten started putting it up yet.

Scored a deal on Craigslist for a bunch of used 3" blue board. $450 for a stack about 10'x40'x5'. Picked up a little over half of it Wednesday after work with my buddy's pickup and flatbed trailer and I'm a little over halfway done unloading it and stacking it in the building. Hopefully I'll...

Minor updates: Hung a couple of old 8' T-12's by the south wall for quick light when I just need to run in for a bit. Scored some free 4' T5 HO's from the local electrician (they had them up in their building for a while, do all of our electrical work at the warehouse, and I've helped them out...

Yes, I do...I'm a mod for the CJ Tech forum.

As has been suggested, you should do a heat loss calc. Radiant is a set & forget...turn it on before you need it and leave the t-stat alone. It does not do quick recovery/temp changes like a forced air heater does...you'll be sucking down gas to make that 10 degree jump. In my observations...

Thanks for the info. Right now my wife is the only one who parks in the garage (my garden tractors & **** are in the other bay and I had a pole barn built for my toys) so convenience for her is paramount (she's the one who ordered me to buy the standby generator). Using the manual release is...

Got any info on that backup battery system for your garage door opener? I had to "waste" a circuit on my ATS load center to power the openers which I'd much rather use for something that gets more use like the microwave.

Basically, you put the circuits that you want powered by the generator on the subpanel and use the transfer switch to control the power source (utility when the power is on, generator when the power is out) for that subpanel. You can buy combo units. My 14Kw unit came with a 14 circuit auto...

The wireless is the way to go. What I did in the eat-in area of my kitchen which (like every other room in the house with a fan) just had a wall switch (if you wanted fan but no light, you had to turn it on at the wall, then walk over the the pull chain and turn off the light) and was on a 3-way...

Haven't completed my system yet (ran over on my build costs and didn't have enough money left) and have the same size shop with 3' higher ceilings, uninsulated walls & celing at the moment (priority one) and electric service only. I have yet to see anyone who was happy with their system using an...

I have a HP setup as well with the strip heater (almost fainted when I got my first electric bill last winter...t-stat got dropped after that and we use space heaters in the rooms that we occupy...plus my standby generator isn't big enough to run the 15kW heat strip when the power goes out)...