Good morning!!!!

[Popgadget]

Will put AH in unfinished room upstairs (where current geo ducts pass through)

Why not put the air handler where the existing geo unit is?
Is the geo a split system with the compressor and air handler separated?

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Tuesday) morning. Overnight Low of 0.6C and it's presently warmed up to 12.0C, clear & calm... again.

Yesterday was so nice that I'm going to do it again. (just enjoy retired life & good health)

That's about it, take care all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Why not put the air handler where the existing geo unit is?
Is the geo a split system with the compressor and air handler separated?a

to reclaim the space on first floor, and it shortens the duct work. a bunch of sheet metal work either place, I'd like to reclaim the space downstairs where geo sits for a larger pantry. room upstairs was going to be 2nd floor laundry, still plenty of room for that if I ever get to it.
also considering putting in individual room returns for the 2 rooms over garage. The new AH upstairs will sit in the space where the ductwork now passes up thru the room. Room has no drywall inside, originally was going to build wall around the ductwork, never got done.

Will go with 2.5 ton, I still think 2 ton a little low. $79 more to go extra .5 ton.

Will need to make a return box (or have one made to fit). The AH is 21x21", 49" high. Can buy a premade return box that ships unassembled. duct outlet on AH is 10.25 x 19.3"

for the geo, I made a supply box, that has a duct to the original house rooms, and another duct to feed 3 rooms over garage. I made a return box with similar ducts from it.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 68ºF for the start, mostly cloudy sky, light breeze. light wind, overcast sky, rain early afternoon, and high temp was 88ºF, HI 99ºF. Made coffee to start day, oatmeal for breakfast, bike ride, cool off shortened to get mowing done before rain. 5 balls found and rain held off . Nap after lunch then ICVFD board meeting then late dinner.
Resuming Yesterday 7:29PM CDT post 208,888:
Kyle glad you were able to accomplish some rehab on the shoulder. My water bill is higher than my electric bill, and I have fewer 100ºF+ days and my thermostat is on 76ºF. I do have some nice shade trees. The time to make a DNR is before hospital stay. Vibration, and sharp blows are your friend along with penetrating oil.
Dennis glad you didn't miss tree after it died helping you to get shaft apart.
Randy(wag) sorry no rain. Glad just normal stuff on to-do list.
RS Glad watering went well and planting progress has been made. Glad you got more mulching and trellis work done. Hope strawberry shortcake as good as it sounds.
Monday Morning 2:15 AM CDT post:
David thanks for information.
David will be interesting what difference the new findings make going forward. Tel Sophie the day care remark was a good one.
Ron glad good breakfast with son. Nice you were able neighbor get post out with his inferior equipment Nice flower pic
Drew hope detailing goes well. Hope you get RV cleaned out and inside work done. Hope you found some beans.
Bill sounds like inside day for sure.
Thomas sorry your water heater gave up. Hope replacement goes smoothly. Hope the pick of the Mrs went well and TLC doesn't take too long.
Drew good question on lidar.
Paul glad mowing and brunch went well. Glad R/C got to open up and get used. Hope today goes well for you.
Drew as a guess the car transmitter are such low power probably a non issue.
Ken sorry about the issues with off brand trash bags. Sorry about timing chain stretch on Jeep, not a cheap fix. Sorry about something ate one of your tomato plants. Glad cotton candy machine cleaned, hope popcorn machine cleans right up. Hope day job went well.
Buppies glad you got rain, sorry it was a pounding. Glad Precious doing better. Hope Holly doing well. prayers sent.
Friend(trac) glad no damage form rain.Good to hear friendsgiving went well. Glad food was good and pie big hit. Good luck with trip to wedding decision. Hope new trailer works out for you. Glad work not generating new problems..
Frits sorry no rain. Hope slow day went well.
David hope this round of mowing goes better, and good HH.
Don sorry about wrong meter installed, Hope you can get billing straighten out, you'd think service guy would pass along info he had found.
David cool story about Sophie and fist boxer.
Dennis hope you can get deck2 and changes to deck1 finished soon.
Drew glad you found some beans in the garden.
Thomas glad water heater just breaker. Sorry about close lightning strike. Hope walk through is good in morning.
Dennis glad you have the measurements for line set length.
Kyle are those test coupons round or flat? I suspect 2 in gauge length as opposed to 10 inch gauge length. Is rake to remove excess vegetation? Glad you made all the stops and A/C problem just loose insulation
Randy(wag) hope you Tuesday went as well as Monday.
Dennis hope you are able to reclaim the extra room.
Catch up complete.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /son's migraines, Mike /BIL in FL, Ron /heart, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /cancer, parathyroid, blood sugar /wife, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, Frits /veteran son with mental issues, /granddaughter with Evans Syndrome, Ken /chronic fatigue, Diet not working, Randy(wag) /sister stoke, Scott(vt) /wife's back pain, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, /wife back issues and cancer, Lou /eye issues, /heart issues, /wife hip replacement, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's hip or leg pain, Eye recovery, /back issue, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage dissolving, / friend stop drinking, Dennis /retirement, /neighbor issues, /brother's lymphoma, /dad surgery recovery, Drew /back operation issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, Scotty /back pain, Helogabals /wife's friend situation, Fatjay /father broken hip, ******, Ukraine war, Middle East War, and Country.

 

[Thomas]

70F sunny day low 90's for high next for 4 days 3 H's.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...meet up with neighbor tag along to see how 1 of 2 companies he owns work...should be interesting.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is done brewing. 60° with fog this morning. Heading to 88° with sun. PT went good. Recommend that I wear my ankle brace all the time when walking. Will see how that works out. Spent rest of the day relaxing. Pond cleaning is back on the list today. No other plans yet.
Dripping wet.

Everyone stay well and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
up early, looks like about half an inch of rain last night, less than predicted.
North of here lots of flooding apparently, including NY subway system.

Thomas, have fun today

need to go do a little foodshopping this morning, then back to wash rv.

very pleased with how Lexus looked after the detail was done. Light beige interior looks much better and
no longer smells like prior owners cologne. At least it wasn't cigarette smell.
probably will fiddle with the car speakers today

Tuesday, July 15
summer is moving right along
except for Wagtail whose winter is doing fine.

 

[Buppies]

71 very humid caught two storms yesterday evening lots of lightning and loud thunder ground is like soup. Hollys doctors appointment went well upped her medicine waiting on blood work results. Hope I got thru to them.

Precious woke me up at 3:30 wanted to go outside no joy. Going to try to go back to bed very tired.

Prayers for all our Country

 

[daugen]

have any of you HAM guys talked to the ISS yet?
that would make pretty cool entry on log book

but who could forget Buck Rogers calling:
Come in Mars
Come in Mars

on a special wavelength known only in Hollywood...

 

[daugen]

having owned a Radio Shack and having sold a ton of old style antennas before cable came in,
would not be hard to fab your own antenna. Buy a big one and cannibalize it for parts.
then the science comes in.
Wavelength affects antenna design, sometimes you want a long wire antenna, sometimes you don't.

I can remember stringing a line out my window in home 25 years ago, long wire out to tree in yard.
I think hooked up to a basic multiband radio, something German. With a zillion icons and pictographs I could
not understand, this is sure not pushing a button on the car radio.
you have to know where you are going/frequency and how to get there/knob selection
whatever I learned did not stick, short wave, medium wave, long wave
but it sounds like something fun.

how about super low frequency so you can talk to whales and submarines?
chatting with one of our boomers might get you in trouble...
antenna set up for that might run afoul of zoning
though early on they were dragging three mile long lengths of wire out the back of airplanes
so they could talk to our subs in the cold war.

without video, can you imagine us on TBN only communicating by radio?
we would have to talk.
LOL

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low is 61 and going to 84°F. No wind. Foggy now but going to get smoky later today. Temps going
to the 90s tomorrow.

I grabbed a couple of Eco-flow River 2 Max battery bank systems to use in the power outages. IF they work as advertised then when the power goes out I can still run my computer. We'll see.

Another energy conservation day, due to the smoke from the Manitoba forest fires. Ontario has a few too, so we are no angels.

Drew, in your life time of driving and backing up anything bigger than your car, how many hole-in-ones have you got to your credit?

I can honestly say that with a semi and one trailer I have had a few, but with two trailers I can count the number of time I have succeeded on one hand.

Have a safe day all

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning,
Ct, 69 to start going to possibly 90 with heavy humidity.
Wow, easy to fall behind on this thread I blink my eyes and everyone has moved on

Heavy rain last night, possibly 2 plus inches or more.

Today is a day of rest and that is exactly what I am going to do. Now that I am retired I can treat every day that ends in 'day' as a Sunday.

Bill, I like that idea for at least today

Now looking at Mr Cool DIY

Dennis, my oldest son has decided that our Vermont house is to hot in the summer, so he went out and bought a system to handle 1500 sq ft. All the bedrooms have AC window units but the family room and kitchen dining area do not. So I think he is using Paul’s advice and buying a pump and other tools to do the job right rather than going with a pre charged line set. I told both sons I have room in my electrical panel to give them a separate 20 amp circuit. So we will see how that goes.

However, I’d suggest going even cheaper on the equipment and buy a vacuum pump, a basic manifold and a burnishing type flaring tool and making a proper installation.

Hope all have a blessed and safe day

 

[daugen]

Drew, in your life time of driving and backing up anything bigger than your car, how many hole-in-ones have you got to your credit?

I can honestly say that with a semi and one trailer I have had a few, but with two trailers I can count the number of time I have succeeded on one hand.

Have a safe day all

it was Sunday morning with no traffic so this time I hogged up the whole road early and got rv stopped in a
better spot. Second time Bill for a hole in one,usually takes me one k turn to position and one to reverse.
if my neighbor had not put his mail box two feet on my property, this would be much easier.
Still have to have a talk with him about that. I know that he, like I, did not know where the line was.

went out and fed the birds, running out of seed so stop at hardware store at 8am when they open is planned.
then supermarket in same shopping center. And then home to wash the rv.

 

[B7510HSD]

have any of you HAM guys talked to the ISS yet?
that would make pretty cool entry on log book

but who could forget Buck Rogers calling:
Come in Mars
Come in Mars

on a special wavelength known only in Hollywood...

Drew over the years I have 3 contacts made with the ISS. One voice and 2 digital (packet radio)

 

[daugen]

Drew over the years I have 3 contacts made with the ISS. One voice and 2 digital (packet radio)

how does that work?
is protocol they can acknowledge you and that's all?
can't imagine they can yak away up there, discuss the Mets...
if they have time, can they engage with you?

 

[Happy in NC]

Good morning TBN!!
66 this morning going to about 94 w/Tstorms possible.

Not much yesterday. Finally got my haircut. Quick run to groc. store and home to just putter the rest of the day.
Much the same planned for today. Also packing for Ohio annual party. Going a couple of days early to help with setup. Usually anywhere between 50 and 100 people usually show up.

Time for a second cup
Everyone have a great and safe day!!

 

[rswyan]

65.1F and sunny with some haze @ 07:30, calling for a high of 88F for the day.

Coffee tasting very good this morning.

The Squeak is out in the garage on safari, hopefully will not invite anymore of her friends in to visit …

Wrote the following yesterday (I think) and forgot to hit the post button:

“When I woke up and looked at my phone there was a real-time precipitation alert on it from a couple of hours ago.

Looks like we got right around 0.25” … which is quite welcome and was very needed.

Of course it means the front lawn will need mowing again in the next couple of days.

Got temporary repair done on garage door before I went to bed last night.

Checked summer squash before I came in last night. Largest zucchini was almost 6”, two largest yellow squash were 6” and 7”. Have several more 3” to 4” long.

The larger ones should be ready to go in the next day or so, so I’ll get them picked, sliced up, blanched and vacuum sealed to go in the freezer. (Assuming I can locate the vacuum sealer)

Need to go through the rhubarb and see what can picked and put up as well.”

Yesterday took dump cart full of weeds and debris up and added to the compost pile.

Got last two winter squash planted, on the 3rd section of the arched trellis, watered in, and mulched. All that’s left on the shelves are tomato plants.

Some some more trimming done on the indeterminate tomatoes.

Brought down more wood chips for mulching in the garden: 2 stump/shrub bucketloads into the dump cart. Did that twice.

Then scooped the wood chips into a bucket and carried to the south end of the garden to mulch around the rhubarb, blueberries, and pole beans.

Had well above my typical number of steps yesterday.

Marked fence post locations again before the paint faded out and disappeared. Ran out of marker paint, need to check in garage and see if I have any old partial cans left to finish that up.

Pushed on stump of ash tree we cut down out front with shrub bucket and then chained it to the box blade and gave it a pull. It’s loose and moving but not quite ready to come out yet.

Woman helped me get 2 more tomato cages flipped and driven into the ground.

Woman wants the sunflowers She picked up planted on the west side of the shop. So I’ll get that sprayed with glyphosate this morning and then haul over screened compost to create a planting bed there.

May put on the root rake/grapple and see about clearing the western perimeter down here by the house so I can get in there with the PHD to auger some planting holes for the arborvitae.

Have three partial pallets of mulch that need relocated to a better area that will allow for loading them in the dump cart or bucket in the shade … rather than in the sun.

That will clear out an area on the west side of the frog pond where I can stockpile screened compost.

First thing on agenda though is quick run down to Menards in Massillon to pick up 3 more t posts so I can get the last cattle panel put up for the pumpkins in back.

Feeders will need some attention when I get back.

Calling for more rain tomorrow so getting the front lawn mowed will be on the agenda at some point today.

Hope everyone is having a decent Tuesday …

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 74 going to 89 and cloudy.
Last nights forecasted rough storms dropped ,5" of rain, not the 1.5" they called for, good by me.

Cleaned out popcorn maker and leftovers for dinner.

Day job is busy (good), taking son over to train around lunch time.
Truck appointment not until Monday. Chauffeur duty again.

Be well,

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 74° and overcast. High of 85 and clearing is forecast.

Yesterday I made some progress cleaning up in the shop, I ran out of material cutting out Rockman’s sandblast mask. Was able to get him everything he needed by reducing some quantities.
He brought me another project, some diamond core bits to shorten. I cut about 6” out of the shaft on the bandsaw, drilled and reamed the hub to fit the shortened shafts and brazed them back together. Other than running out of oxygen, ad having to tun out to exchange my bottle, it went smoothly.

Today starts with breakfast with the professor, followed by going to the RC club to hang out and fly with the old guys.
After that I think I have to tidy up the shop a bit, I was challenged for a clear spot on the welding table to put those bits together.
Then I’m sure I’ll find something else to keep me busy.

 

[B7510HSD]

how does that work?
is protocol they can acknowledge you and that's all?
can't imagine they can yak away up there, discuss the Mets...
if they have time, can they engage with you?

The voice procedure is just give call sign basically to acknowledge contact. The digital is automatic you make the connection and then disconnect. Been many years they may have changed that procedure now not sure. The digital required no involvement on their part it was thru a TNC/Radio setup.