Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-03 Thread dseretakis--- via Mercedes
Um that is weird as I ordered three all wood insulated Marvin awning windows for my garage. They came in yesterday. They broke the bank! Sent from my iPhone On Dec 2, 2014, at 11:15 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Years ago I purchased some large insulated

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-03 Thread archer75--- via Mercedes
Andrew Strasfogel wrote: Years ago I purchased some large insulated Marvin awning windows, with wooden frames. Very impressed with their craftsmanship. When we replaced the 1959 single-pane, steel-frame casement windows in our house a few years ago, we got the windows from Marvin. We

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-03 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Wed, 3 Dec 2014 07:35:40 -0500 archer75--- via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 22:40:01 -0700 Craig via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: When we replaced the 1959 single-pane, steel-frame casement windows in our house a few years ago, we got the windows

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-03 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
My awning windows were indeed installed below fixed glass picture windows, that I had double-paned in the manner previously described. Andrew A**ab*y worthy On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Craig via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: On Wed, 3 Dec 2014 07:35:40 -0500 archer75--- via

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-03 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Wed, 3 Dec 2014 22:00:46 + (UTC) Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: We just replaced a failed dual pane casement window in our kitchen with a sliding vinyl. One other surprising advantage in a casement window is that the reflection in the window lets you look around

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency -- MINI-SPLITS

2014-12-02 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Call my girl Lisa and get a quote. They had the bits sitting in the warehouse, I think 2014 models, and I got a good price on the condenser and 2 head units. They are easy to install, then get an AC guy to come and check the lines, pull a vacuum, and open the charge valve, and yer good ta

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-02 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
'Nother ATTABOY! Wilton - Original Message - From: Jim Cathey via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com; Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Monday, December 01, 2014 11:42 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency tried to put double pane

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-02 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
The house we owned in Indianapolis had the fancy double pane windows with argon (or some other inert gas) in the space between. They had a lifetime warranty, so I replaced one in the French doors that went out to the deck, as it had condensation in it. It was no problem, I just contacted the

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-02 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
How did you repurpose the old bad window, Dan? On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: The house we owned in Indianapolis had the fancy double pane windows with argon (or some other inert gas) in the space between. They had a lifetime warranty,

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-02 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
They had a lifetime warranty, so I replaced one That works so long as _you_ have the paperwork, and _they_ are still in business. If you sell the house, is the warrantee transferrable? Our 1976 house is _full_ of seal-failed double-pane windows. The new wing has the non-sealed windows. You

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-02 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
My first thought, too. ;) Wilton - Original Message - From: Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com; Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 10:39 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency How

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-02 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
d...@penoff.com; Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 10:43 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency They had a lifetime warranty, so I replaced one That works so long as _you_ have the paperwork, and _they_ are still in business. If you sell

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-02 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
As for how I replaced it, the glass unit was in a door, so it was a simple matter of unscrewing the trim that held it in place, lifting out the old unit and putting the new one in. All the seals were in good shape. If I recall, it only took me about 20 minutes to do. Dan Sent from my iPad

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-02 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
True, but I took a shot at it and contacted the manufacturer. They never asked me for proof that I was the original owner - I just told them the builder put them in. They made the leap - I wasn't going to volunteer additional information unless requested. I agree with your comments regarding

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-02 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
My question was what did you do with the failed unit. I had a similar setuo in my firstr home in Vienna, VA which I bought back in 1977. It was a 1954 California contemporary (rambler) buit on a concrete slab, with single pane floor to ceiling glass everywhere. I first doubled up the glass

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-02 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
On 01/12/2014 10:42 PM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote: tried to put double pane windows in our last house when we built it, and the builder refused. I hate _sealed_ double-pane windows, which mostly is all you can get. I found non-sealed double panes for our new addition, which are not to

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-02 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
Yes. ATTABOY! Wilt - Original Message - From: Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com; Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency My question

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-02 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency My question was what did you do with the failed unit. I had a similar setuo in my firstr home in Vienna, VA which I bought back in 1977. It was a 1954 California contemporary

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-02 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
What are you using? Are they factory or something someone has cobbled together? Pella. Factory issue. Been a few years now since I've bought one. These are the kinds of windows that can have blinds between the two panes. Our doors do, but none of the windows have them. All could, IIRC. --

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-02 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Years ago I purchased some large insulated Marvin awning windows, with wooden frames. Very impressed with their craftsmanship. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: What are you using? Are they factory or something someone has cobbled together?

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-02 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 23:15:12 -0500 Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Years ago I purchased some large insulated Marvin awning windows, with wooden frames. Very impressed with their craftsmanship. When we replaced the 1959 single-pane, steel-frame casement windows in

[MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-01 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
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Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-01 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
Last Tuesday I ran an insulation blower for a friend who buys, rebuilds, and resells houses. After we blew R-39 into the attic on top of what little was already there, he mentioned that he only bought one house which was already adequately insulated. He couldn't figure out why people didn't

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-01 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
So what should my front and rear pressure be set at for my 1983 300TD, on 195X70X14 H rated Goform Supreme tires. On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Last Tuesday I ran an insulation blower for a friend who buys, rebuilds, and resells houses.

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-01 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
The most efficient car is the one you don't have to build and scrap. Keep old Benzes running and forgo the energy needed to make a new one that will last a third as long if that. I put in another mini-split heat pump system in the house about 1.5 weeks ago when the old system died (I was

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-01 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Look on your door frame for the spec. 28 and 32 if I recall? --R On 12/1/14 1:34 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: So what should my front and rear pressure be set at for my 1983 300TD, on 195X70X14 H rated Goform Supreme tires. ___

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-01 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
I took advantage of our utility’s energy inspection programs, which provide a number of services for free or at a reduced price. They came out and did an energy audit on the house which turned out fairly well. Insulation and windows all passed. Next - the blower door test! At the insistence

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-01 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Dan, Sounds like you really did a thorough job. *My current house has single pane windows but they have a UV coating on them that nearly eliminates the heat load from the sunlight. * I'm interested in coating the windows and skylights in my sunroom to cut down on the UV insult in summer and

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-01 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
How can I figure out the price of one of those for my house? On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: I put in another mini-split heat pump system in the house about 1.5 weeks ago when the old system died (I was trying it nurse it through the

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-01 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
Rich Thomas via Mercedes wrote: Look on your door frame for the spec. 28 and 32 if I recall? He was responding to my passing along Wayne Gerdes' advice to run sidewall max instead of door frame placard. The answer to that would be to read the numbers on the tire sidewalls.

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-01 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
Tonight I inflated the tires on the White Whale ('87 300TD) to 40 psi front and 44 psi rear. Sidewall says maximum pressure is 44 psi. I also tried some of the hyper-miling techniques on the ride home (avoiding using the brakes as much as possible, leaving a big following distance and trying to

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-01 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
Not picking I know, but: heat comes from IR. UV gives you vitamin D, skin cancer, and accelerates the disintegration of materials. The new windows we installed in the guest house filter both. On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Dan,

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-01 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
They came that way from the manufacturer. At first we thought they had some sort of film on them, but after some close scrutiny and talking to the inspector that did our final acceptance it appears that it’s either a treatment of the glass or something that is applied in a way that it doesn’t

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-01 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Mon, 1 Dec 2014 19:40:44 -0600 OK Don via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Not picking I know, but: heat comes from IR. UV gives you vitamin D, skin cancer, and accelerates the disintegration of materials. The new windows we installed in the guest house filter both. Well, glass

Re: [MBZ] OT: Energy efficiency

2014-12-01 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
tried to put double pane windows in our last house when we built it, and the builder refused. I hate _sealed_ double-pane windows, which mostly is all you can get. I found non-sealed double panes for our new addition, which are not to code. They're all of 1% less energy-efficient, but will