Garage Doors Left Partly Open?
#16
Posted 18 August 2008 - 05:26 PM
#17
Posted 18 August 2008 - 05:56 PM
#18
Posted 18 August 2008 - 07:13 PM
Not to scare you or anything, but even a closed garage door at the corners probably has enough room for our slithery friends to slip through. Especially after a mouse or rat has chewed his way through the rubber seal strip.
#19
Posted 18 August 2008 - 07:37 PM
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Cats, raccoons and skunks too...
#20
Posted 18 August 2008 - 10:03 PM
#21
Posted 18 August 2008 - 10:40 PM
Venting the large garage door with a side door window open helps a significant amount especially as noted when we park two hot cars in there and temps are mid 90s or higher. Last year I added attic fans from Home Depot in the south facing garage and south facing "computer room\office" then had an electrician run the power. Both garage and office got uncomfortably hot and AC was running frequently. office also had 1 to 7 desktop or notebook PCs running which doesnt help. After fans were added, AC comes on less frequent, can bump the temp setting and still feel comfortable and thus AC comes on even less.
One note though. The Home Depot fans stopped working and I replaced them from the electricians supply which have been rock solid and quieter. I can barely hear the fan in the attic space above the office right now...purring and blowing out the hot air (kinda like the hot air at the capital )
#22
Posted 19 August 2008 - 11:40 AM
Be careful to use materials which work well with standard pool chemistry.
Your typical copper/brass radiator is allegedly not advised for pool use.
#23
Posted 19 August 2008 - 11:43 AM
Your typical copper/brass radiator is allegedly not advised for pool use.
Yeah, I thought about that but couldn't find specs on it. I figured copper would be bad, but aluminium would do okay.
#24
Posted 19 August 2008 - 12:05 PM
practice with the moonshine still first
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#25
Posted 19 August 2008 - 02:13 PM
-Robert (looking for any way to keep the upstairs cooler on these hot days )
We do it to let the cat in and out. But only when we're home, and only during the day. It stays all the way closed at night.
#26
Posted 19 August 2008 - 02:39 PM
Also the heat in the garage helps out the water heater
#27
Posted 19 August 2008 - 03:01 PM
Also the heat in the garage helps out the water heater
When I had a single story house I probably would have agreed with that. However, despite massive amounts of insulation it seems like there is no way to keep the heat from the garage from getting into the bedroom above.
-Robert
#28
Posted 31 August 2008 - 10:15 AM
I just wanted to post because we had a friendly, LOUD, intruder in our garage last night. I know Bill said snakes can sneak in, but I think leaving the door open makes it easier. Who knows for sure, but no matter the reason, be careful of snakes right now. This was a pretty decent sized one (about 2.5 feet) and had a nice loud rattle - thankfully, since I was about a foot from him. We called the Folsom FD and they took him away in their "snake pit." THANKS!
I just wanted to remind everyone to be careful right now.
#29
Posted 31 August 2008 - 12:19 PM
I just wanted to remind everyone to be careful right now.
Well, at 2.5 feet, he was a young one. Still not much meat for eating. Now a good 5 or 6 footer you could make a meal out of. So now that you had a close encounter with rattler, if you would have been bit, what would you have done? What would you have done if out in the country, away from a hospital? I know growing up, being in the Boy Scouts, we always carried a snake bite kit. I'm not sure how many people know that these days, they recommend not using snake bite kits. The emergency advice is to remain as calm and still as possible while getting to proper medical attention, no cutting at the injection site or trying to remove the poison with suction cups or anything. Stay calm and seek immediate medical care, regardless of non-immediate that may be. It seems the conclusion has been that using a snake bite kit does more harm than good.
#30
Posted 01 September 2008 - 10:51 AM
On another note, most gable vent fans are small enought to fit between 18" wall studs. Cut the sheet rock with a roto-zip and the stucco with a sawzall/masonry blade. Both will cut like butter and the mess will be minimal. Hardest part will be wiring in power and a switch, if you have to feed it past sheetrock. Put a thermostat switch on it and it will turn on/off at temp you desire.
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