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All in all, the north guest bedroom is a pleasant place for guests to sleep. The new oak flooring is beautiful and takes little care. To finish the room, I repaired installed and painted baseboards, painted walls, lined the closet and furnace closet [Read More]

Sorry it’s been a while since I posted. Life is getting busy and not leaving me much time to work on the house, but I promise you, work continues! This month we’ve been gathering quotes to replace our furnace and add central a/c. I&#82 [Read More]

Alright, so I’m a bum and we didn’t go to the Union Park Neighborhood Association meeting Tuesday.  Just too much going on this week and Brandon and I needed a dinner and evening at home together.  Part of what’s got us so busy t [Read More]

when the biodiesel furnace fires we get a strong rise in temperature, reasonably well balanced throughout the house. when the temperature of the thermostat has been reached, the burner ceases, but the warm air continues for a few minutes (using ev [Read More]

We purchased a very reasonably priced Blueway Split Inverter Air Conditioner for our living room from Harvey Norman. The Air Conditioner is a Blueway AS24-VR with 6000watt cooling capacity (we don’t really care about the heating up here in [Read More]

Well, today marks the official start of the air conditioning season. Despite getting the roof on our house sprayed with a reflective paint, today we fired up the Blueway split inverter air conditioner in the living area of our house. Most of our Nort [Read More]

My friend Joe and I were walking around town the other day, snapping pics of my lovely little neighborhood. We just happened to notice this crazy old air conditioning unit outside of an apartment building on our main street. It sits upon two extra-st [Read More]

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For those of us living in older homes without cooling systems, this time of year brings the dreaded task of installing the window unit air conditioners. It's not one of my most favorite tasks and I don't really like having windows obstructed by them. [Read More]

After a few very hot days here this summer (and the memory of last summer's heat wave, in which things in our dining room actually started to melt) We have tightened our belts, bought a month's supply of macaroni and cheese, and bought the only thin [Read More]

By the title of the post, you may very well be able to guess what this is about. Yes. Our eleven-year-old central AC. Now, you might be asking yourself, "Just how long is a central AC unit typically good for?"Good question.Answer? About eleven years. [Read More]

When I asked Melissa what she thought of the progress on the SpacePak project. She said, "Well it looks like... [Read More]

I haven't entered an update lately on the huge project of outfitting this old house with AC. Too overwhelming I think.. Any way here is a quick update. [Read More]

Ok for those of you who keep bugging me about the progress of the ever so slow AC install. This post will tally up floor by floor what is currently installed. I will only count runs that are capped off at both ends meaning connected to the plenum and [Read More]

Working like mad during the evenings this past week has had some nice results with the AC project. I am not finished by any means however, I am much much further along. I will tally up the run total again in this post as well as recap what is done :- [Read More]

So its officially summer around North America. This was usually a day of big fun in AK .. hiking Flattop mountain, staying awake and watching the sun go down .. oh yea it didn't. Well not here in PA we are having our own fun. [Read More]

The AC contractor was able to spend a half day here today. And he will be back for a short time tomorrow as well. [Read More]

Well at the sart of this day I was set to install the return air duct work and insert the filter to have filtered air going into the air handler. Well after a dissapointing .. [Read More]

Ok so the three month AC project has been fun .. *sort of* But now I can officially have a Guinness :-) [Read More]

"A House that has a Front Yard... and a BIG AC Compressor" Sound the trumpets, alert the media, we're within hours of being complete.  The cleaning folks come tomorrow, we have the keys, the AC is on, and tomorrow even the Refriger [Read More]