1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Someone redid the basement in my place before me and put in a 90+ unit in 2005, but unfortunately the last guy never checked the condensate drain and it rusted the heat exchanger from water backing up... so new Trane 95% unit going in on Tuesday... I'm confident it'll last.

 

Trick I do for old ass windows (st least for hest retention during winter) is cut a sheet of plexiglass and surround the perimeter with foam gasket material. Then use little L brackets and screw that into the windowsill to hold the plexiglass tight to the window frame. Like an extra window pane.

It's helped reduce the heating bill in our apt by ALOT

 

Water heater lean is fixed now. Cut a hole in the drywall, used a bottle jack to jack it up with a piece of 2x4 going across the floor and then a couple 16" pieces of 2x4 for legs.

 

Ah, I hadn't considered that but I'll have to give it a shot.I do have storm window retrofits but they're also very old single pane windows that don't seal lol. I've tried the plastic sheeting but it doesn't do too well. It keeps falling off.

I was sitting here thinking I was developing circulation issues because my right hand will freeeeze and on a particularly windy day I could actually feel the draft rolling across my desk

 

that's unfortunate

are you doing a self install?

 

When are your windows from? Mine are all double pane from the mid 90s, nothing great, but at least they aren't fogging yet so they've got life left.

 

Nah, in WA you have to be a licensed gas fitter to do that stuff, guess I could put it all in and have someone come do the gas, but for the price quoted it makes more sense to let em at it and not have to lift anything.

 

our windows are old as shit, too. Probably as old as the house (1926). One issue with them is they don't seal well at all being those old Craftsman style latch windows, so I've had some luck using those foam inserts to fill in the gaps. Keeps bugs out too.

but yeah the thin glass doesn't help with energy saving at all

 

When we had that windstorm a few months back (60+mph gusts), you could see our curtains blowing in the house even though all the windows were shut lol.

 

yeah mine are ooooooooolllllldddd wood frame windows

 

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=2ztN1IN0av4&feature=share

 

ours are all the old kind that swing inward like a door. With no seal of any kind so when closed you can feel temperature of the outside air around it.

Not that it gets super cold here but it sucks in summer when its crazy hot and the AC has to be pumping constantly just to maintain 80 degrees lol

 

yeeeee I know how this goes LOL

The dust intrusion is not great either. I suppose it helps with radon though LOL

 

I'm afraid to spend the $1000+ for a radon system only to find out i have a lot of it haha

 

ah, did you get a test with your home inspection?

 

damn, I think I paid the inspector like $300 to do a test

$16 First Alert Radon Gas Test Kit, RD1

https://www.amazon.com/First-Alert-RD1-Radon-Test/dp/B00002N83E

 

Nah, can't buy anything around here if youre not making an immediate cash offer, anything with contingencies like an inspection or whatnot is ignored

 

So the mystery of why our water heater keeps randomly going off was solved. We keep our vacuum cleaner parked next to it and the plumber takes one look and goes "do you vacuum around the water heater?"....yeah..."you're sucking out the pilot light"

oops

I was starting to think our cats were rubbing up against the control knob and turning it off lol

 

I was gonna diy a radon system install but it's probably worth paying for

apparently if the level is high enough it's equivalent to poking several packs a day

 

That's a danger with the whole house fan, if I don't open an appropriately sized window or door... it'll suck the fucker right out