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  1. #28941
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Boston area, OK, Newton, right by Heartbreak Hill
    OK - now time for more black puzzle pieces.

  2. #28942
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Boston area, OK, Newton, right by Heartbreak Hill
    I wonder if it would be easier if I drank beer while I did it.

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  4. #28944
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Washington, DC area
    Quote Originally Posted by YmoBeThere View Post
    It's a fun read. Its accuracy is a bit iffy here and there, though.

    -jk

  5. #28945
    Good morning!

  6. #28946
    Join Date
    Nov 2007
    Location
    Vermont
    calling local HVAC savant today, considering a/c...previously this was heresy in New England, but no longer...if we're going to be cooped up at home for another year (and I suspect we will) I'm gonna be comfy.

  7. #28947
    Wouldn't you just drop a note if you weren't going to make an interview?

    Ugh. I could have used more sleep this morning had I known.

  8. #28948
    Join Date
    Mar 2010
    Location
    Atlanta 'burbs
    Just curious. Has anyone else noticed a lack of mosquitoes this year? I haven’t seen a single one in my backyard so far, where we are normally overrun with them. We haven’t sprayed, and have had ample rain with some standing water. Highly unusual.

  9. #28949
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Atlanta, GA
    Quote Originally Posted by TruBlu View Post
    Just curious. Has anyone else noticed a lack of mosquitoes this year? I haven’t seen a single one in my backyard so far, where we are normally overrun with them. We haven’t sprayed, and have had ample rain with some standing water. Highly unusual.
    We haven't had this "problem."
    Been through quite a few of these in the last few months:
    mosquito-repellent-incense-sticks-12-pack.jpg

  10. #28950
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Washington, DC area
    Quote Originally Posted by TruBlu View Post
    Just curious. Has anyone else noticed a lack of mosquitoes this year? I haven’t seen a single one in my backyard so far, where we are normally overrun with them. We haven’t sprayed, and have had ample rain with some standing water. Highly unusual.
    Ours just got really bad in the last couple weeks.

    (Insert my usual plug for "Off! Mosquito Lamps" - a couple really work on our 250 sf deck. And a stink eye towards citronella.)

    -jk

  11. #28951
    Join Date
    Nov 2007
    Location
    Vermont
    Been very very dry here, not too many skeeters, though July is Deer Fly Month. Hate those guys.

  12. #28952
    Quote Originally Posted by budwom View Post
    calling local HVAC savant today, considering a/c...previously this was heresy in New England, but no longer...if we're going to be cooped up at home for another year (and I suspect we will) I'm gonna be comfy.
    Do you have ducting from you heating system or are you on radiators, etc.? If the later, a mini split system would seem to be ideal for you.

    https://www.fujitsugeneral.com/us/re...ini-split.html

  13. #28953
    Quote Originally Posted by TruBlu View Post
    Just curious. Has anyone else noticed a lack of mosquitoes this year? I haven’t seen a single one in my backyard so far, where we are normally overrun with them. We haven’t sprayed, and have had ample rain with some standing water. Highly unusual.

    I've had to kill a couple that got in but not too bad really. We had a cold winter which helps.

  14. #28954
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Washington, DC area
    Quote Originally Posted by budwom View Post
    Been very very dry here, not too many skeeters, though July is Deer Fly Month. Hate those guys.
    Are they anything like the horse flies that plagued us as the pool when I was a kid? Man, I hated them.

    -jk

  15. #28955
    Join Date
    Nov 2007
    Location
    Vermont
    Quote Originally Posted by YmoBeThere View Post
    Do you have ducting from you heating system or are you on radiators, etc.? If the later, a mini split system would seem to be ideal for you.

    https://www.fujitsugeneral.com/us/re...ini-split.html
    Fourteen years ago we put in a mini split system for our basement only, which has a bedroom we use in hot weather. We love it. At that time I tried to talk my wife into a system for the whole house. She wouldn't go along for aesthetic reasons. She now regrets that position...though I am refraining from I Told You So type talk...

    So yes, we have a nice furnace and baseboard hot water heating (which we'll need anyway because the heat pumps even now aren't super efficient below 20 degrees or so, advertisement notwithstanding) and a nice mini split system would work nicely...

  16. #28956
    Quote Originally Posted by budwom View Post
    Fourteen years ago we put in a mini split system for our basement only, which has a bedroom we use in hot weather. We love it. At that time I tried to talk my wife into a system for the whole house. She wouldn't go along for aesthetic reasons. She now regrets that position...though I am refraining from I Told You So type talk...

    So yes, we have a nice furnace and baseboard hot water heating (which we'll need anyway because the heat pumps even now aren't super efficient below 20 degrees or so, advertisement notwithstanding) and a nice mini split system would work nicely...

    They do seem to work well if one can tolerate the in room exchangers, etc.

  17. #28957
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Boston area, OK, Newton, right by Heartbreak Hill
    I kinda have no idea what you're talking about. Other than air conditioning.

  18. #28958
    Quote Originally Posted by Bostondevil View Post
    I kinda have no idea what you're talking about. Other than air conditioning.
    Ductwork is cumbersome and difficult to install in an already built house. A mini-split system moves the refrigerant around as opposed to cold air through ductwork. So, it eliminates the ductwork concern but does place an exchanger/air handler into the room. Some might view those as too big/intrusive compared to the cleaner lines of a ductwork solution.

  19. #28959
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Washington, DC area
    Quote Originally Posted by Bostondevil View Post
    I kinda have no idea what you're talking about. Other than air conditioning.
    Isn't there an Mmm, AC thread somewhere?

    -jk

  20. #28960
    Quote Originally Posted by -jk View Post
    Isn't there an Mmm, AC thread somewhere?

    -jk
    We could start a Whew, A/C thread.

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