Sounds like great progress Dan. Dwight Giles Jr. Wickford RI
On Sat, Jul 4, 2020, 5:25 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > So my HVAC engineer neighbor was over the other night and I was asking him > about his opinion on a mini-split in the garage… > > His take? Buy a portable 12,000 BTU unit and use that, forget about a > mini-split. > > I bought one at Lowe’s today. I’m going to try it out in the morning > tomorrow. It should be a pretty wicked test, as we’ve been having 95+ > degree days of late with heat indexes approaching 100. This can also act as > a backup for the house in the event that the house AC pukes for whatever > reason - we can use it to cool a couple of rooms in an emergency. > > I’ve got to do distributor caps, rotors and insulators on the 420E, so > I’ll pull it in early, shut the door and fire this thing up and see how it > does. Not sure how I’m going to vent it at present, but that’s something I > can work out. > > He also suggested that I insulate the garage doors, too. > > More as I know it. > > I also bought my hybrid electric water heater. I was planning on doing > this in August, since I just dropped $6k last week on a new AC system for > the house, which is working quite well, I would add. While I was wandering > the aisles of Lowe’s I went by the water heaters to see if they still had > any of the one I wanted. They did, and it was marked down $300 from the > regular $1299. Bought the last one they had and let them carry the paper > for 18 months, too. > > So maybe next weekend I’ll have the resident plumber install the new water > heater. I already had him survey the existing setup to determine what he’ll > need to do the job, so that’s done. Another significant decrease in energy > consumption, *and* some cooling for the garage as well. > > -D > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
