Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

16 going to 36, and maybe snow flurries this afternoon.

Jay hope your knee report today is a good one.

mpham, prayers for your wife.

Ron, looking forward to hearing your report in April on the Aeroseal.

Well, I think I jinxed my chainsaw when I talked about it reaching its 30th birthday this year. It died yesterday while I was cutting firewood. I haven't had time to fully investigate, but looks like the clutch housing band broke, starting rubbing chain, got hot, and melted into the plastic. A new saw may be in my future.

 

[ronjhall]

Need to pour second cup of coffee. -6° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 16° with mostly sunny skies. Spent all day inside yesterday. Went to take a shower in afternoon. No cold water. Water line must be frozen. Decided to wait until tomorrow when it will be 40°. Then I will turn water back on to see if any leaks. Drop dog off at groomer, Dr appointment then PT today.

Not sure how they work with the resin/sealer. I watched a good video on it. Was talking to sales guy while looking at video to see what inside of duct looked like. I plan to stay at house while they are doing the job. Hopefully take some pictures of the process. The install date is 4/1. I could have got it done later this month. But thought weather would be better in April.

Eric, a large number of homes are heated with forced air furnaces. One plus for it is easy to add AC. Plus may be cheaper to install at initial construction. About 35 million homes have it in USA. Radiant heat is still popular. Give a look at Cat Fevers thread Starting our new life. My home has very good insulation even all the ducts have 6". But after 70 years there are leaks in the system. They may have been there since day one. So I hope the sealing will send more warm air into house than outside.

Phil, hope your wife gets a good report.

Prayers for all.

Good Morning All.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

These must be tricky forecasting conditions as the wind unexpectedly changed direction yesterday just before the clouds reached us. People to the south are now enjoying what should have been our share of the snow.

Not as cold as many here, but still grim putting feed out this morning. After a few minutes I came back to change my beanie hat for one with ear flaps, this east wind is certainly penetrating.

The sheep are not venturing far, probably because the bit of grass that is left is frozen down hard to the ground, but it's best to still check the other fields that are open to them. On the ground in one gateway were 3 small wind blow branches from an ash tree that had not been there the day before. A rabbit or something with similar sized teeth had gnawed away every sliver of bark from one of them, yet the other two, not more than 3 feet away, were completely untouched.


Ron, I am intrigued with your ducting. I imagine you must need to move quite a lot of air to heat a house, so I'm wondering how large are your ducts and how can they leak so much air ? Is it poor joints, or are they made from something as permeable as my beanie hat ?

In England ducts are hardly ever used for moving heat around in houses, it is nearly all distributed by circulating hot water through wall mounted radiators, or more recently through underfloor pipes buried in the concrete screed.

Ive stayed in a few english inns, where they shut the boiler off at night, and your room gets really cold. Lol

 

[riptides]

17 outside. Things are warming up. Not much on the agenda. Getting ready for back to work. Should be interesting with some weird hours. Use to do crazy hours in a younger version of me. Peeked at taxes, major disappointment brewing.

Hope all are on the positive side of what ails them today. TGIF. Wishing all a pleasant day, try and stay warm, and be safe.

 

[daugen]

26 going to 56 today, marvelous, and 61 tomorrow.
sunny nice day, going to start planting cabbages outside today, should be great fun.
Maybe I can grow one as nice as Kyle's daughter did.
This first batch of veggies is going to have floating row covers put over them, sort of mini greenhouses in the garden.
Haven't quite figured out how to water with them on...probably can't. My game plan is to put the hoops up, about two feet tall, and then
if a below 25 degree night is predicted, I'll then put the plastic on top. Going to use some left over pavers to hold it all down. We shall see....maybe it will be so warm I won't need it, but there's always a gotcha out there. That gotcha last year did a lot of damage here,
better defense this year.

Lawn care contractor coming in an hour to talk about doing all my weedeating, basically what the last guy did until he quit last summer.
I need him every week, I can afford him every two weeks. He lives about a mile away, see him in the greasy spoon, friendly and keeps his equipment and truck clean. Hopefully this good old boy will work out.

Grappled a large downed tree yesterday after it had been cut up. I really miss the hydrostatic for fine loader work, am missing all the feedback cues I used to get. Now I'm ham handed and lurchy. First the FEL works twice as fast as before, I flipped the bucket back and almost propelled a stuck log back at the windshield. Looked at that and thought to myself, now don't do that again...

Then we intentionally loaded that heavy WR Long solid bottom grapple with as much wood as we could, my fireman neighboring questioning whether it would pick it up. Not to worry, came up at idle speed...this MF/Quicke loader is way stronger than what I had before. And with weighted tires and a rototiller on the back didn't worry about picking up the back end. I really want to test it on something BIG...honestly curious to see what it will do. Need to go find a big stump.

 

[toppop52]

A combination of the suggestions above might make the cut.
The Garden Tender

A bit sore after chainsawing about 200 limbs this morning trail blazing and pickle ball in the afternoon. Couldn’t squeeze in time for the garden today, kind of misty all day. Ended the day with a pet club meeting.

I glanced and thought you said ‘pot club meeting!

 

[toppop52]

Just found this article on PG&E, our local energy utility, on the Chico newspaper web site. The short version is PG&E was found to have violated their probation from the San Bruno, CA gas line explosion, and is now subject to a whole slew of new restrictions and over sites. The judge also spent three hours chewing them out:



PG&E ousted the then current CEO a few weeks ago, infuriating customers by awarding her a multi-million dollar golden parachute. And yesterday they filed for bankruptcy. I'm hoping they're taken over by the state, and become a true public utility. Even the gubmint couldn't do any worse.

Careful what you wish for.

 

[ronjhall]

Ron, I am intrigued with your ducting. I imagine you must need to move quite a lot of air to heat a house, so I'm wondering how large are your ducts and how can they leak so much air ? Is it poor joints, or are they made from something as permeable as my beanie hat ?

My house has 2 main ducts running middle of house 12" X 24". Off of one of them are 6" and 8" diameter runs to each room. Depending on rooms size. The other 12 X 24" is return air return back to furnace. There are 4 return vents in house. Todays systems a fairly efficient. But have no idea if it is more efficient than radiant heat.
All the duct is 26 or 24 gauge sheet metal.

 

[ronjhall]

That's correct

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Thanks for the correction.

 

[Buppies]

Jay good luck at doctors today

Toppop what have you been doing this morning not hungry are you?