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When I built my house, I planned on an emergency standby generator but I didn't buy it right away. I installed the Kohler RDT transfer panel outside between the meter and the house panel. We've lost power a couple times since finishing the house, and as a stop-gap, I installed a 50A inlet...

I have two Champion 4500w inverter generators and their 50-Amp RV parallel kit. I've been living in a 5th wheel for 3+ years and occasionally I'd need to run generator power when the line power went down. The parallel kit let me run both air conditioners from the generators.

I just finished building my house and I went with all American Standard Champion 4 toilets...chair height, elongated. So far, I like them. They are highly rated and it's a long-running model line for AS so parts should be available for years and years. I do like the chair height and elongated...

Do you need a perfectly precise hole? I just drilled five holes in my porcelain tile shower yesterday to install a shower glass door. I used a quality 5/16" masonry bit and my M12 SDS Plus hammer drill. It worked just fine.

It doesn't bridge gaps at all. I ground out and filled my one big crack and left the little ones alone. The stain and the coating both blend with themselves just fine. I had to do part of the garage in two sections because I did the whole house side at once and I had to use the garage as my...

Up and running, slowly bringing the slab up to temperature. I've dialed in the mixing valves to about 100 degrees going to the floors. Slab is up to 55 degrees now. The domestic plumbing isn't hoooked up yet...

I suggest PEX for any new lines. It'll at least hold up to a freeze if you ever have this issue again. Plus, it's inexpensive and really easy to work with.

Big aggregate with geotextile on top and then your top gravel on top of that. By big, I mean rocks like shale or limestone chunks in a nice solid, thick base.

Here's what they said when I did a chat with AI and here's the hyperlinked link: https://outdoorboiler.com/pages/view-an-owners-manual

If you can't contact the company anymore, there are a few other forums where you might someone with more information for you. ArboristSite.com, Hearth.com, etc. typically have a lot more information on outdoor wood boilers. I'd bet there are Facebook groups for them as well. Try this link...

I've seen advertisement for heat mats you can lay out on top of the concrete and plug into an outlet. You might want to look around for something like that. It isn't permanent and it's up and running as soon as you open the box and lay them out.

I'm literally in between coats of sealing my stained concrete floor in my house and garage. The floors are new concrete that was finished in August and has been bare inside of the house as we've been working on it. They power troweled the concrete. We used a floor buffer with a sanding disc...

To add to this, if you're using any type of heat exchanger to heat your domestic water at the water heater, if you let your fire go out and leave your water heater "on," it'll back feed enough heat into the outdoor boiler's loop to keep the water (or whatever fluid) from freezing as well. It...

It's not a solar thermal system. The outdoor boiler system is a self-contained and controlled package. It doesn't continue to fire when it isn't calling for heat. You clearly don't understand how these systems work, so maybe you should stop offering advice to the OP on these systems.

Stainless steel (316 specifically) heat exchangers don't care if you use ethylene glycol or other "toxic" antifreezes. IF the heater exchanger were to fail, these outdoor wood boilers are designed to be either zero pressure (closed) or very low pressure systems. Domestic water is typically...

Antifreeze doesn't need to be non-toxic. The flat plate heat exchanger just needs to be lead-free. The outdoor boiler liquid (water or antifreeze) doesn't interact with the domestic water at all. You don't need a loop with a pump on the domestic water, just use the normal pressurized domestic...

There are two common ways to do it. A flat plate heat exchanger will heat the domestic water as an "on demand" feature. The best setup is to plumb this on the cold "incoming" water into the water heater. I leave the heating elements on in the water heater so they just have to keep the...

If you have an angle grinder, a "crack chaser" blade or even a diamond cup disc for it would do wonders to help you make the V notch and save you from having to use a hammer and chisel across that whole crack. I used this one on a 36' crack across my slab and it only took a couple of minutes...

Probably the easiest solution is to buy some duct wrap insulation, wrap it around the boots, and use the foil backed tape to hold it in place.