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“initially granted a demolition permit from the city — but their plans were halted”

They should have brought in an excavator the next day and tore it down.

These house/lots are so small. Combined they are both smaller than my back yard. I can understand why they would want more space if they can afford to buy it. If seems like for $8MM, plus the value of their house they might be better off moving to some other place. Location, location, location

There is nothing historic about this house.
Plus, she only lived there a few months.
There must be more to the story.

I am in total agreement with all your points. The fact is without the illegal immigrants many of the Blue states would LOSE congress critters and Electoral votes.

I am just telling you my personal experiences from dealing with landscapers, concrete contractors, roofers, restaurant owners, etc. All Hispanic small business owners.

There are a couple guys here in NH trying make it a law that every town has to review their voter rolls/checklist at least once every two years. The current law on the books is once every ten years.

The reason they are promoting it is because when they went through the checklist/voter roll in their own town they found about a 30% difference of extra voters on the list. Some were dead people. Most had just moved somewhere else. This is a town with very little rental property too. The population is about 13K.

Imagine what the number is in a big city with a large amount of rental housing. Even worse are the college towns where kids come and go every year. This is why the easiest place in NH to potentially cheat is in the college towns.
Not in a town like I live in where there are 1100 registered voters.

The most “money” I have ever seen in one place was at a horse jumping competition years ago. This is where they jump over the 6+ foot high fences.
The SUVs were all Cadillac Escalades.
The horse trailers were hundreds of thousands.
The RVs were hundreds of thousands. Most were custom made Semi tractor types.
The women were all in excellent physical condition.

IF covid was listed as a cause of death or “died with covid” the hospital would get a large amount of money from the government.

IF a patient was put on a ventilator in the ICU they also received a certain amount of money from the US government.

The hospitals were in financial dire straights because they could NOT do their most PROFITABLE operations (ELECTIVE SURGERIES) during covid. So, getting paid for people dying with covid was a huge money maker for them.

I know a prominent Orthopedic Surgeon in the Boston area. He has two clinics. He had to shut both of them down. It was costing him about $25K/day.

Do you not recall that NO ONE died of INFLUENZA during covid. Yet, every year a million elderly people died from the flue. Which is why they suggest older people get a flue shot.

I know a lot of people in my industry in North America. Literally thousands. I know of one guy(who was extremely obese) that died of covid.

Eventually, many of the Latinos will be Republican voters. It might just take 25-50 years.

KEEP IN MIND, I am in NH where there are are only about 5% Hispanic people.
However, the ones that end up here(I come in contact with) are the people that open and operate their own business. They tend to be very family oriented Catholic people.

They are not the ones who prefer to stay on Welfare in MA, RI, CT & NY.
They are also not the ones involved with the cartels/drug trade.

Except this young boy is now a HERO in the eyes of all his buddies.
He is in middle school. He would be lucky to make out with any girl his age. If he had been swapping spit with a high school girl, he would have been THE MAN. In the eyes of his buds.

He jumped over the middle school, high school and college girls and went right to a 24 year old.

SHE needs serious counseling.

Was that wrong?

Some Ting Wong?

Actually, I think I need to replace the combustion fan. It is the one getting pretty loud. Or, at least buy one to have on hand when the one in the unit Sh#is the Bed.

I don’t think so. The price of the Harman pellet insert really has not changed much in the last 9 years from when I bought mine.

The only thing that I had read on the hearth.com forum is that lead time jumped when the tax rebate went into effect again.

The other reason to consider buying this particular model of pellet stove is that there is a 30% tax credit on it again.
There was not when I purchased mine. Not only is the 30% credit on the actual stove buy on the SS pipe and installation too. So, it could be $2K off the total $7K price.

Again, these things make a lot more sense up here in rural New England where our choices to heat our homes are limited to oil, propane, coal, cord wood and electricity. If natural gas is available it does not make as much sense.

FYI, my 52 year old house originally had electric radiant heat in the ceilings. This is because it was built during the oil embargo of the early 1970s. When electricity was actually cheaper than oil. The house has blue board attached to the ceiling joists. Then 18 gauge wires attached to the blue board. Then about 1/4” of skim coat plaster was applied over that.

The house had a thermostat in every room when we bought it. However, the previous owner had installed a forced hot water boiler furnace in the 1980s. With baseboard hygromic radiators. I removed the thermostats and reused the eight 20 amp circuits for other purposes like ceiling fans in the bedrooms. Some we just disconnected in the main panel and labeled where they went. In case we wanted to use them again in the future. There is 12/2 Romex going to each box.

Yes, that is the reason I bought the pellet stove 10 years ago. It was when oil went to $150/barrel. Heating oil mirrors the price of diesel. It is basically the same thing with out the road additives and tax.

So, IF heating oil gets cheaper, I turn up the thermostat.
The pellet stove also has a thermostat. So you set it and it turns itself on and off. Just like a furnace.

The first two years I had the pellet stove, pellets would get scarce in the winter. You had to buy ahead in the fall all you needed for the season. Now, the best time to buy it now. Call around and see IF anyone has any left over they are willing to DUMP instead of sitting in their warehouse until October. Many more retailers sell them now.

Pellet stoves do have some moving parts. They do have a board. Which I had to replace once because I didn't have it plugged into a good surge protector. A lightning strike hit near the house and blew the fuse on it. It never worked right after that so I had to replace the board.

The fans are not hard to replace. You just have to pull the thing out of the fireplace. I need my sons help for that. It is on a track with wheels but weighs 450 pounds. I built a wooden platform to slide it out on. My fireplace is on a brick hearth about 10” above the floor. My family room is one large room across the back of my house. My kitchen, dining room and family are all together. The pellet insert is at one end. I use a computer fan to blow the air into the center hallway. Then it goes upstairs by natural convection.

Another benefit is there is no creosote. I clean the flue pipe once a year in October. I have my son help me pull it out of the firebox and clean behind it. There is also a fines box under the auger you have to clean out. It is where the sawdust and broken pellets end up that fall out of the auger. The auger also has a motor to turn it. So, there are actually four motors in my insert.

Pellets are a by product from sawmills and planer mills. Similar to shavings used for animal bedding.
However, a pellet mill is a fairly substantial investment. Plus you have to bag them. Then put them 50 of the 40 pound bags on a pallet.

Here in southern NH they are popular because in the rural areas natural gas is not available. I heat my house with forced hot water boiler furnace. It burns #2 heating oil. Which is almost identical to diesel. The only other option is propane for heat in rural areas. Along with electric(too expensive) and cord wood. Traditional wood stoves or outdoor wood furnaces.

Bagged pellets are sold at Home Depot. Lowes, Tractor Supply, independent farm and Ag stores and the pellet stove retailers. You can buy them a bag at a time $5.99-8.99 or by the pallet(50 40# bags = 1 ton). Companies will deliver them to your house. They are shrink wrapped. So they are made to sit outside and be “weather proof”. As long as the shrink wrap does not get damaged.

I typically buy them by the pick up truck load. I have a spot in my garage I can fit about 24 bags.

I own a Harman pellet stove insert. Harman IMHO is the best quality pellet stove made in North America. There are also some good European brands too. Harman are made in PA.
I have the Harman Accentra 52i. It is an enamaled finish brown color. It sits in the masonry fireplace in my family room. This is not an inexpensive appliance. It is like buying another furnace. You also have to remove the damper and block off the chimney with stainless steel. Then run a flexible stainless steel flue pipe up to the top of your chimney. Altogether, it was over $7K.

It has reduced our heating oil use. I do not know exactly how much. It also allows us to keep the main room/floor of our home much warmer than I would just running the oil burner furnace.

The main negatives are it is loud when it is running. It has a combustion fan and two circulation fans. The combustion fan blows the air up the chimney. The circulation fan takes the air from the room and blows it through chambers above the burn pot. Warming the room air and blowing it back into the room. Ideally, you want to bring in outside air for combustion. That is much more difficult to do with a masonry fireplace.

The other negative as opposed to a regular wood stove is that you need electricity to run it. So, in the advent of a power outage it is hooked up to a circuit powered by my gasoline generator.

Lastly, mine is now nine heating seasons old. I need to replace the circulation fan. It still works but it is getting pretty loud. Like when it turns on, we have to increase the volume on the TV from 15 to 20. It is only 5’ from my wifes end of the couch.

All that being said, I am glad I have it. Plus, I guess I am also being GREEN because I typically burn pellets made right here in New England. Not that EVIL CO2 ERF killing petroleum .

Tulsi assaulted someone?

“Extra insulation, sealing cracks, etc. I did that.”

Ditto, but the house is 52 years old. There is only so much you can do. Also, added a Harman pellet stove insert to help use less heating oil in the winter.
It is 77 sunny today. Then back in the 50’s for the next five days with rain. The pellet stove will be burning again.

That sounds like a great system. Did you design it?
What do you do for work?

I have heard that solar panels have come down in price quite a bit recently.
I have considered building my own free standing static array. I have an open south facing field. My wife HATES the idea though. Especially since it would face our bedroom window. I also would do all the trenching to run the conduit to my house/garage(about 200’). Then hire my local electrician to hook it up. We have net metering here in NH locked in at $.06/KWH.

The article states he is a lawyer.

IF he is actually employed by some firm in the city I would think that the partners of that firm would ask for his resignation.

He probably went to law school, and is employed by some liberal advocacy group because he could not get a job at a decent law firm. Has a chip on his shoulder.

I think some patriotic NYers should pay this guy a visit at his Brooklyn townhouse at 3 in the morning.

I think geothermal only works out IF you have your own excavator or backhoe. Meaning, you can do all the excavation yourself.

The other method is if you are already drilling a well for domestic water down 200’ into the ground. Then you run a loop in that 6” diameter hole in the ground.

When you decided on your solar array did you ever consider one of those free standing units that tracks the sun throughout the day?
I understand they are the most efficient available.
I assume they are also more expensive to install and maintain.

I think they should just start digging the new CANAL from the MED right through Rafah. DIG down with bulldozers about 50’ below sea level. Then let the Med sea water flood the canal.
From the river to the sea.