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walls arent finished at all. i have one 30' wall nearly done with R13 but thats it. (that wall is REALLY stinking warm to stand around too :D

i'm in the fargo ND area. yes the isulation is a little light; the plan is to blow in insulation over the R19 in the ceiling when this is all done. the rafters are 2x4 truss so r38 didnt make a lot of sense to me, even the r19 sticks up past the joists quite a ways. i figure if i blow in another...

as i was working on my shop today (still insulating walls) i got to wondering how much propane i am using, and i have no idea. i think i may be burning 10 gallons a week but i am not sure. shop is 24x30x9. R19 ceilings, R13 walls. insulated doors. furnace is 45k btu modine, i keep it at 38F at...

i dont remember. it sounded like methanol but i could remember wrong. it is a brand new tank, its quite big :) technically its a #1000 tank but he also called it 150 gallon.

its a 150 gallon tank, he said he put 2 gallons of (something i cannot remember, methanol maybe? something to dehydrate the tank) and 30 gallons of propane. so no, not full. he said he would be out in around 60 days to fill it all the way.

today it seemed especially strong. its weird. i dont know a whole lot about CO detectors.....do they make ones that run on 120V that are left on all the time? do they go in the ceiling(?) i really dont know

you should be able to remove the lighting receptacle from the ceiling box and replace it with a typical electrical socket.

i also have this thermostat and am amazed at all the features i has. it easily holds my garage at 33 at night (for real, i have a cardboard cup of water in there to check for freezing). i need to adjust my swing a little bit but thats a personal thing. my only complaint about it is that it is...

i installed a 45k btu modine hot dawg on my ceiling. i used a duravent b vent kit to run the exhaust out the rear wall; it slopes down at 1/4" per foot. the propane installer used soft copper line from the 150 gallon tank to the furnace with no drip leg - when i asked him about this he said a...

got it all fixed up, i cant believe i worked on it for ten hours but i did. both neutrals separate, and fixed the existing switch loop. dont really know why it took ten hours, but i guess i was doing other stuff as well such as i cleaned up the service panel while i was doing this (i had left...

wonder what they were thinking, or not thinking maybe.

i pulled apart a switch loop (not my work) today only to find that they had looped the neutral to the switch and wire nutted all the hots. i'm no expert but this doesnt seem right....but its been this way for ten years. i thought you were supposed to nut all the neutrals and loop the hot(?)...

thanks for all the help so far. the shop lites i have now say "multiply bulb wattage by 2.5 for volt/line/amps" which i am not real sure what that means... two 40 watt bulbs (80 watts x 2.5) = 200 watts seems like a lot of draw. i guess its not too important as these are temporary anyway. i...

i have decided to redo my lighting circuits. i have redone every electrical run and box in the garage except for the lighting, and i am not happy with the lighting. originally i had just changed boxes and lefty the original layout but i think i have a couple issues with the existing setup. 1. i...

i actually got them to turn today. i used one of those short stubby screwdrivers with a big pattern on it, suitable for a 4" drywall screw. it fit into the thermostat hookup screws quite nice and with a controlled amount of power i was able to get them to turn very slowly at first and then after...

yep. thats the one; the one in the house while accurate is almost impossible to read as well.

i just figured there might be some weird NEC thing that prohibits p touch or some such. never know till you ask i guess. thanks!

can i use my P touch to label my service panel? the existing 10 year old pencil marks are unreadable due to fading and i have redone the entire electrical layout so nothing matches the labeling anyway. i have been keeping a sheet next to the panel that is accurate. just looking ahead to the...

its hard to see in there with the board upside down. i can sorta see the threads. the R and W are all the way out. the thermostat came in a kit, i got everything except the thermostat cable and some odds and ends.

ran into quite the issue today, i'm planning on hooking up four of the five thermostat connections (i'm not using Y). my thermostat needs the C to run it and i might as well hook up the G while i am at it as the thermostat has that feature. inside the hot dawg i cannot turn R and W. i can turn...