Then I cleaned out the filter at the bottom and it was GROSS! It always is. If you haven't cleaned yours in a while it is worth looking at!
The fun of building (and owning) a house.
Then I cleaned out the filter at the bottom and it was GROSS! It always is. If you haven't cleaned yours in a while it is worth looking at!
I will eventually get around to adding graphs, but for now it will cycle the heater on and off as needed to maintain setpoint.
I installed a garage heater this weekend. I have had it for about a year and finally got around to installing it. I think it will be pretty nice to heat up the garage to work out there. We aren't going to heat it all the time, that would be pretty wasteful, just when we are out there.
The first issue I ran into was that the heater is a little more narrow then the 24 inch rafters in the ceiling. so I just screwed a 2x4 into it and screwed into that.
I originally just had the exhaust blowing out pretty close to the soffit. But thought better of it and added another 19 inches of length, I don't think it will hurt anything there. It is supposed to be 4 feet out, but that would be really far out! Since we aren't running it all the time, I am OK with where it is at.
It was long overdue, but I finally installed a vent for the basement bathroom. It was inspired by Nick taking showers down there. Getting into the basement took a lot more work than I anticipated.
Nick has been after me for a while to run ethernet to his room, he is convinced it will be far superior to the wireless ethernet he is using now. I haven't been in a big hurry, because I need to run a cable through the attic, and it is dusty up there.
However, Maddie started guitar lessons and that left Nick and me home for 2 hours and he wanted to do it, so we did. He did most of the wiring in the panel and his room, I braved the attic though.
The amazing thing is that the wired connection is about 10x faster, when doing a speed test to our NAS. The wireless speed is just as fast as the WAN connection about 100mbps, but with the wired connection it gets almost the full 1gbps that our network is capable of.
So, most of the time it won't make a difference, but when transferring files to the NAS it is a lot faster. The location of the ethernet port in his room necessitated the purchase of a right angle ethernet cable, so we could push his dresser up against it.
The old shut off values wouldn't turn anymore, so I cut them off and soldered on new one. I have to make sure that the pipes are still properly positioned so that they drain in the winter. These pipes will move up and down now.