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Thread: Making our new retirement place
Post: RE: Making our new retirement place
| today was a banner day. I had tried to commission the heat pump yesterday and ran afoul of an error that prevented the start up. I emailed tech support and he had me switch one of the Dip switches to ... |
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Thread: Making our new retirement place
Post: RE: Making our new retirement place
| (03-29-2026, 04:13 PM)Fireball Wrote: That'll make for quiet heat. Nice!
When those upper floor surfaces were at ~70, you could just feel it. Comfortable with no heat stratification. |
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Thread: Making our new retirement place
Post: RE: Making our new retirement place
| I underestimated how quickly the slab would react, and turned one of the upstairs manifold sets back on.
This group is the west set at the basement landing, next to the low voltage cabinet.
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03-29-2026, 03:48 PM |
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Thread: Making our new retirement place
Post: RE: Making our new retirement place
| Fast forward to today.
I am having a ton of fun doing sciencing.
I got the slab loops connected today.
My brother brought down an old water heater we are using for testing while waiting for the hydron... |
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03-28-2026, 06:36 AM |
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Thread: Making our new retirement place
Post: RE: Making our new retirement place
| picture a plant wall down the column side, with trailing stuff that can handle the indirect light.
On the other side, a water feature 20' tall.
I put some parameters into ChatGPT and used copper rain ... |
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03-28-2026, 06:24 AM |
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Thread: Making our new retirement place
Post: RE: Making our new retirement place
| They put up the last sheetrock.
The freight company showed up with the lift on a pallet. We broke that down, then put in a floor at minus 2" in the elevator pit, and then hoisted the column and tippe... |
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Thread: Making our new retirement place
Post: RE: Making our new retirement place
| I had embedded a 4x6 across 3 rafters before the sheetrock, with a threaded rod protruding out.
Plan your work, work the plan. This is heavy lifting I have experience with.
I had a half ton chain fal... |
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Thread: Making our new retirement place
Post: RE: Making our new retirement place
| I have a big update on the progress.
A) the house is rough wired and inspected.
B) the solar panel installation is wired and inspected.
C) I applied for net metering with the PUD and got that all don... |
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Thread: What was the high point of your day? 2.0
Post: RE: What was the high point of your day? 2.0
| I dreamed up a water sculpture for the elevator shaft as I drove around taking my wife to her quilting friends, and came home and started playing with ChatGPT. It is not to scale but it is a starting ... |
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Thread: What was the high point of your day? 2.0
Post: RE: What was the high point of your day? 2.0
| I had the most wonderful experience with a contractor today.
They said they would be here today and they showed. They came with a big crew and got it done in one day, which was not expected. They too... |
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Thread: What was the high point of your day? 2.0
Post: RE: What was the high point of your day? 2.0
| Those are Midnite Solar Surge Protection Devices (SPDs). They are sized close to the string operating voltage, so a nearby lighting strike will get clamped quickly.
They will take both positive and ne... |
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Thread: What was the high point of your day? 2.0
Post: RE: What was the high point of your day? 2.0
| The State electrical inspector came out today, a different guy, and he passed the solar panel and inverter installation. All that is left is getting the net metering agreement done and permission to o... |
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Thread: My conspiracy theory about Kristy Noem
Post: RE: My conspiracy theory about Kristy Noem
| (02-11-2026, 09:29 PM)SYZ Wrote: Governor Kristi Noem was sued over video promoting dentists
who fixed her teeth in 2024.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...ad-lawsuit
She was sued over t... |
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Spirituality, Pseudoscience and Conspiracy Theories
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Thread: Superbowl
Post: RE: Superbowl
| I did not know you are a fellow 'tonian, @Rhythmcs
When I think of lifting trees it is for the Ironworkers.
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Thread: Superbowl
Post: RE: Superbowl
| I much preferred the openers, but I am a fan of both Green Day and Brandi Carlile. |
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Thread: Never Meet Your Heroes
Post: RE: Never Meet Your Heroes
| @pattylt nice story about Paul Lind.
I can see that, even when he was cutting sharp sarcasm he seemed nice about it. |
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Thread: Hundreds Dead in Crash of Air India Jet
Post: RE: Hundreds Dead in Crash of Air India Jet
| (01-14-2026, 11:08 PM)pattylt Wrote: Is a shit load more or less than a fuck ton? Inquiring minds and all…:)both shit and fuck are on the Carlon list, one could presume with equal standing.
Since w... |
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Thread: Never Meet Your Heroes
Post: RE: Never Meet Your Heroes
| That is nice to hear Thump, I'm a big Cars fan and so many artists are miserable louts in comparison. |
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Thread: Making our new retirement place
Post: RE: Making our new retirement place
| Sucks to be them, I say :D
Circuits are numbered.
The number is written on the required 1/2" of cable jacket inside the box.
The number will be on the panel labeling inside the door when you open ... |
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Thread: Making our new retirement place
Post: RE: Making our new retirement place
| LOL no on fire suppression or fire resistant cement board, It is the gray primer on 3/4" plywood.
The ICF styrofoam walls must be covered and typically with sheetrock. I talked to my inspector and he ... |
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Thread: Making our new retirement place
Post: RE: Making our new retirement place
| Update:
After Mary's fall and surgery, I got back up there around the first of the year and started wiring. It is a 4 hour round trip, and we had a friend stay over a night here and there so I could s... |
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Thread: Who are your favorite TV characters?
Post: RE: Who are your favorite TV characters?
| Jim Rockford- Rockford Files
Andy Sipowicz -NYPD Blue
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Thread: What are you doing right now?
Post: RE: What are you doing right now?
| home after helping replace the brakes on the truck at my friend's house. |
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Thread: What are you doing right now?
Post: RE: What are you doing right now?
| I was hanging out for a zoom wedding watch that did not happen. They had the ceremony and then the groom needed to go to the ER. He is very ill with cancer. |
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Thread: Food!!! What are you eating today??!
Post: RE: Food!!! What are you eating today??!
| I soaked navy and 13 bean mix overnight, and made a big pot of ham and beans for the family visit. We are going nowhere, so they came down from Seattle today to play cards and eat Beans. We had some g... |
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