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I'd stay away from swamp coolers. As I said in previous posts, I live where it gets HOT, and I had both a roof-based Evap (swamp cooler), and roof-based refrigeration, and I TRIED out the swamp once, and proceeded to shut off the water too it, and never used it again. They are horrible devices that ...

If you are successfully cooling your house by 30 degrees in 90+ degree weather, either you have one "helluva" unit(i.e. a house sized FREEZER :roll: ), or your thermostat/thermometer is broken :wink: I'm not calling you a liar or course *laugh* ... but factory ACs are designed to take temps from ab...

Counter with $250 credit to buyer for replacement of pipes. Really, are they going to haggle over $250 past that point? How much is the house selling for? Over $500, I'd likely tell someone to go pound sand just out of principle.

al_roethlisberger wrote: if you aren't trying to "cool" your house by 20 degrees as with an AC,

Al

20*? Try 30*+ Amazing the AC can keep up with as many places the air has to escape.

Why not just do it yourself?

I keep forgetting to turn the thermostat up to 81* when I leave for the day. This makes 2 days in a row I've left it at 76*. I'm going to have a $300+ bill this month if I don't start remembering (last month's bill was $208 for electric, and pretty much all of the electric used was for AC). Currentl...

Tayloraut wrote:How can I tell if a wall is a supporting wall? When we look up at the portion we are removing, there is wood along the ceiling that the lathe was attached to.

Hard to say. What's above it?

Schag wrote:

but come on, i live in VERMONT! the place....

that has 2 seasons.......winter and July.

Winter, and one month of bad sledding.

GFCI doesn't mean anything in regards to it being on new wiring vs. K&T. A GFCI monitors the amount of current flowing from hot to neutral. If there is any imbalance, it trips the circuit. It is able to sense a mismatch as small as 4 or 5 milliamps, and it can react as quickly as one-thirtieth of a ...

114 this past weekend, and HUMID.