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Alt.Home.Repair is a worldwide Usenet news group that is used to discuss various aspects of Home Improvement.
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OT: Warm your home with a renewable resource [7 articles]
HeyBub - 2009-10-13 20:53:00 [In: Heating, Cooling & Ventilation | Pest Control | ]
From the world of The Hard To Believe:
"The bodies of thousands of rabbits culled every year from the parks in
Stockholm's Kungsholmen neighbourhood are being used to fuel a heating plant
in ce...
Should I reduce the furnace fan speed? [11 articles]
spamme0 - 2010-10-17 15:49:00 [In: Heating, Cooling & Ventilation | ]
Got a new Coleman 95.5 gas furnace.
The fan is quite a bit noisier than my old unit.
Measures 73 dB in the hallway under the return vent.
That's "C" weighted.
I pulled off the vent covers and me...Delays DUcting New Wall [11 articles]
2009-11-05 00:53:00 [In: Electrical & Wiring | Heating, Cooling & Ventilation | Security & Surveillance | Walls & Ceilings | Windows & Doors | ]
Back in 1987 I saw the first steel-stud construction in an office I
was working in. The put up the studs and the sheet rock in two days
flat. But then they took three months doing the electrical a...WATER/AIR HYDRONIC SYSTEM WITH HEAT-PUMP [2 articles]
LonnRodine - 2009-10-29 14:32:00 [In: Basements & Crawl Spaces | Bathrooms | Electrical & Wiring | Energy Efficiency | Health & Safety | Heating, Cooling & Ventilation | Plumbing & Water Supply | Security & Surveillance | ]
I've been designing and working on this for over a year and have a home
that facilitates experimentation fairly easy.
The system design so far: 4 Ton RUUD Air Handler factory equipped with
R-410...Furnaced controller problem [8 articles]
Ed Sievers - 2009-10-16 22:47:00 [In: Electrical & Wiring | Heating, Cooling & Ventilation | Home Electronics | Roofing & Gutters | ]
My daughter's furnace (and her little Boze radio) received a bit of a jolt
from a secondary leg of a lightning strike which hit (and penetrated) the
roof across the street this past summer. I had...Hot Water Baseboard [5 articles]
jimmy - 2010-01-08 20:19:00 [In: Heating, Cooling & Ventilation | Lighting | Plumbing & Water Supply | ]
Does anyone know if there is a hot water baseboard fixture that has both
supply line and heating (fins) in the same unit...like one above the other.
I may have a leak in an area thats not accessi...Central Heat & AC thermostat... weirdness [4 articles]
OK, this POS doublewide has straight electric hot air heat, A/C, but no heat pump. (Coleman Evcon) Years ago when I first moved here I closed off the ducts to almost 1/3 of the house (two bedroom...Honeywell UtilityPro Programmable thermostat problem [8 articles]
Lee B - 2009-10-20 21:09:00 [In: Electrical & Wiring | Heating, Cooling & Ventilation | ]
I had this thermostat installed by my utility company several weeks ago.
It's the kind where they can cut back the air conditioner during peak
demand. I get money off my utility cost and a free in...Plumbing question [13 articles]
2009-10-19 16:35:00 [In: Heating, Cooling & Ventilation | ]
I have hot water heating, and removed all the baseboard heaters to refinish
living room floor. My house was built in 1951 and has old style baseboard
heaters they have two 1/2 inch copper pipes th...Heat Pump Savings? [8 articles]
Tony - 2009-10-19 11:29:00 [In: Electrical & Wiring | Heating, Cooling & Ventilation | ]
I have electric hot air heat and I am wondering how much I can expect
save with a heat pump? Eastern TN, almost in the Smokies and the North
Carolina border. Elevation about 1650'. It's around ...what coffee maker won't I have to repurchase in a few years? [45 articles]
Nate Nagel - 2009-10-25 09:36:00 [In: Heating, Cooling & Ventilation | ]
Couple years ago the girlie bought a new Mr. Coffee "thermal"
coffeemaker because she liked the eco-friendliness of not having a
heating element under the carafe, and also it had a timer so you co...Annual maintenance for high efficiency gas furnace [28 articles]
blueman - 2009-11-03 02:48:00 [In: Energy Efficiency | Heating, Cooling & Ventilation | Maintenance & Repair | ]
We have a couple of high efficiency, condensing gas furnaces with
forced hot air used to heat our home.
So far, every year at the start of the heating season, I have been
doing the following for ...Simple generator transfer switch [12 articles]
Jordan - 2009-10-19 10:32:00 [In: Electrical & Wiring | Heating, Cooling & Ventilation | Kitchens | Lighting | ]
I have been finding online $100 6-breaker transfer switches for the
inside (1 240v and 4 120v). The obvious drawback is that after the
well pump, fridge and heating I am limited to choosing only tw...HVAC question [25 articles]
Jim - 2009-10-20 12:26:00 [In: Appliances | Basements & Crawl Spaces | Bathrooms | Energy Efficiency | Heating, Cooling & Ventilation | Home Electronics | Kitchens | Plumbing & Water Supply | Tools - Hand, Power & Garden | Windows & Doors | ]
Hello,
I have a 2600 sq ft 4 level split home in Canada. It was built in
1985. This past spring we replaced our very non-effecient furnace with a
Tempstar 95% effecient gas furnace. It ...Heat pump question [4 articles]
jentr_3@yaho_.com - 2009-10-19 13:28:00 [In: Heating, Cooling & Ventilation | ]
Our new SEER 14 heat pump runs when outside temp drops into the low
20s. Our old heat pump would shutdown when the outside temp dropped
below 35deg. Is our new machine running correctly and, if so ...