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Posted on 12/01/2006 12:55:15 PM PST by ecurbh
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
that was the first thing I did bro...
Mail Call? What'zat?
they make this great stuff for icedams compensation these days. It is a roll of Shingle material that is peal and stick on the back. It is about 4 feet wide. You put it down as a solid layer before shingling and then the lake formed by the icedam can't seep through. So easy to apply.... but would require reroofing the building. That or just get some of the heating things that go around the gutters and melt the dams.
I think the major damage was caused by ice dams, but you know what? I'm thinking now that condensation is forming on the underneath side of the metal roof and running down, then into the wall down there at the end! The gutters are clear, I just checked, and draining well...
There is still a good inch of ice still on the top of the shop in all but a couple of areas...so you've got warm air in the shop coming in contact with that ice cold tin roof (it's almost 50 degrees out there now.)
I vacuumed up as much of the flood as I could, but it's still dripping. I put down buckets, turned on a fan and turned on a dehumidifier. Probably don't want to heat up the shop though...
Well if you heat it up but the air is still dry the condensation might not be too bad.
I'm thinking of taking the ceiling down and spraying the whole underneath of the shop roof with some sort of insulating spray...a barrier between the ceiling and the shop roof. (The ceiling is one of those kind that is suspended on wires.)
Sounds like a good project for the jedis to help you with!
It's a mess, I tell ya. I had a couple of wooden cabinets out there full of books and school supplies. The bottom one had just bottles of finger paint in it, thankfully, because it got DRENCHED. The jedis cleaned it all out, put everything into plastic bags and I got them moved so I could vacuum it up...but it's a mess, a real mess.
Tonight: "Stroganoff".
I'm just sayin'.
Cyn thought for a minute about whether she might climb right up into the truck ;~) I thought for a minute about whether I should just take a picture or switch to video :~)
What's really sweet are the whole-house permanent generator sets that run off both natural gas and bottled LPG. It senses a power outtage, disconnects from the main line, and starts up automatically. It reverses the process when the power comes back on.
It sits on a concrete slab, and has a soundproofed housing. A computerized control panel lets you test system readiness. It's really deluxe, but prices start at about $5K.
It looks like she's easily amused by just a pile of brush.
I'm glad he's interested in learning to cook. He and I made Black Bean-Corn Enchilada casserole the other night. Turned out great!
I've looked intuh those... they're pretty manly, but pricey...
that little 5Kw really did the job... with our LPG appliances, it's really all the Kw we need... The only shortcomin' is it takes unleaded... tho it was fuel efficient, 10 hours on 4 gallons... would really like a diesel, or a PTO driven one...
we're lookin' intuh a wind source, and solar panels for the roof...
We got one of those. It's a Guardian 16 KW. We figured if we were going to be on the Gulf Coast, with all the storms and such, it would be prudent to get something like that.
We'd love to have a large enough place that we could put in a nice solar array.
She's amused by everything we do out there... if it's a fencing project, she's rifling through the tool bucket. If it's cleaning stalls, she's tipping the cart over. :~)
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