Stop in for a cup of coffee

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Good Morning Santa is here!

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halifaxhops said:
Santa has Hep C? That puts a whole new spin on X MAS!
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They have a cure for that now...

Pamela was one of the first ones to use it when it first came out... It was like $100,000 for the medicine...

You can see advertisements for it on TV now....
 
Karl they make wireless ones now you can put anywhere just have to put the receiver on the wires on the furnace. Just a thought.
 
krazykuda said:
No, I have a 3,000 square foot ranch house with a half basement... It was build in 1960 with electric wires in the ceiling for heat... Each room had it's own thermostat and you could turn the heat off in the rooms that you weren't using... Plus you got a 50% break on your electric bill back then if your house was full electric...

When the grandparents died and we moved in, dad tried having heat pumps installed, but they couldn't keep up with the cold up here, so he replaced them with furnaces after a couple years...

They were able to run ducts in the half of the house with the basement, but had to use die grinders to cut through the 4" concrete floors to run them... That half of the house has one furnace...

Then the wing with the bedrooms where there is no basement, they had to install the ducts in the attic and put the furnace in one of the hallway closets to heat that half of the house...

But the dumb asses put the thermostats in the front of the house near the entrance hall, so when you open the front door and the cold air gets in, it triggers BOTH furnaces.... I have to balance the settings to try to keep the heat consistent... My bedroom has two vents and if the thermostat for this wing is more than 2° above the other wing, my room can get over 80° and can get too hot.... But if I set it 2° too low, my room will can get down to 63° or 65°... Then my oldest son is always bumping the one on this side up and down and keeps throwing off my room.... I have to mess with the other side thermostat to try to compensate... If I get too hot and turn the thermostat down for the bedroom half, then an hour later he puts it back to where he had it.... :BangHead: It drives me f*cking nuts... :mad: I tell him not to do it, but he does it anyway.... :mob:

They should have put the thermostats further away from each other so they are not fighting each other all the time...
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Interesting what they did back then.
 
krazykuda said:
They have a cure for that now...

Pamela was one of the first ones to use it when it first came out... It was like $100,000 for the medicine...

You can see advertisements for it on TV now....
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Fund raiser for Santa?
 
halifaxhops said:
Karl they make wireless ones now you can put anywhere just have to put the receiver on the wires on the furnace. Just a thought.
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During the winter we set it at 68. Then only when we are home will run a small electric space heater when it really gets cold.
We also have a fire place that ties into the furnace and take over the heating. I'll burn wood if it gets down below 10 for a day or two.
 
I put a copper coil on my coal stove and run the baseboard through it. Helps a lot, just always have to have the water flowing when the stove is on.
 
Tired of drinking my coffee, heading to Mickey D's for a fresh cup.
Later dudes.
 
ZMan67S said:
Interesting what they did back then.
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My grandfather had this house custom built...

It has many cool features... All floors are 4" thick concrete, even where the basement is... There are 3 fire walls in each wall when building code only calls out for one... The roof has a 4 foot overhang around the house - you can walk around the house in the rain and not get wet... The bedroom doors are 32" solid oak with brass handles.... The laundry room is off the kitchen on the first floor, so you don't have to drag the laundry up and down stairs.... The original cabinets in the kitchen were St. Charles metal cabinets... The back bedroom bathroom has a bath tub and a separate shower stall next to it - more common now, but very rare back then.... The wood panels in the house are about 5/8" thick, not that cheap stuff you see today.... The fireplaces have liners with vents so the air will circulate around it and pick up the heat by convection... It can enter on the bottom vent and exit out the top vents to help supplement the heat in the house...


One of the 6 way switches that was in the kitchen went out and had to be replaced... The electrician had to go to 3 different places to find them and they cost $180 to replace... The guy at the electric shop looked at the switch and immediately knew it was custom...

We once pulled a 318 engine and trans out of a 72 Challenger in the front garage using a rope over 2 of the 10 x 2's in the rafters... The front garage door is solid wood and I had a 3/4 horse motor installed to handle the weight of it when I had to get it replaced...

This place is as solid as a brick **** house...

Grandpa believed in quality and the architect was paid commission, so it got the best of everything....
 
Correction.
Weather network said -30
My outdoor thermometer says -33.
 
krazykuda said:
My grandfather had this house custom built...

It has many cool features... All floors are 4" thick concrete, even where the basement is... There are 3 fire walls in each wall when building code only calls out for one... The roof has a 4 foot overhang around the house - you can walk around the house in the rain and not get wet... The bedroom doors are 32" solid oak with brass handles.... The laundry room is off the kitchen on the first floor, so you don't have to drag the laundry up and down stairs.... The original cabinets in the kitchen were St. Charles metal cabinets... The back bedroom bathroom has a bath tub and a separate shower stall next to it - more common now, but very rare back then.... The wood panels in the house are about 5/8" thick, not that cheap stuff you see today....


One of the 6 way switches that was in the kitchen went out and had to be replaced... The electrician had to go to 3 different places to find them and they cost $180 to replace... The guy at the electric shop looked at the switch and immediately knew it was custom...

We once pulled a 318 engine and trans out of a 72 Challenger in the front garage using a rope over 2 of the 10 x 2's in the rafters... The front garage door is solid wood and I had a 3/4 horse motor installed to handle the weight of it when I had to get it replaced...

This place is as solid as a brick **** house...

Grandpa believed in quality and the architect was paid commission, so it got the best of everything....
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They definitely don’t build them that way any more
 
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