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Bleeding hotwater radiators - Conflicting Instructions
There are many well-intentioned articles on how to bleed your basic hot water radiator heating network. Most recommend bleeding when system is *relatively* cool(is off or hasn't fired in a while)....
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Seems residential home pre-sale inspections cannot be run for the A/C side if the outside air temp is below 60F
Home pre-sale inspections cannot be run for the A/C side if the outside air temp is below 60F. New to me and I'm curious why this might be so? TIA
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More hot weather in Australia
charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit January 18, 2013, 10:56 pm //The plummeting temperatures brought some relief to Sydneysiders after a sweltering day which saw the mercury hit a...
 
so called "air curtains"
These are those high velocity air streams that blow across open doorways such as in a mall or casino, so that things look "open" with doors in the way. Supposedly they block transfer of inside/outside...
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Heat wave Australia
Yesterday on the news they said the heat wave from down South had arrived in parts of Queensland and they had 48.5 c (119.3 f) in one town yesterday. Hey that would make the air conditioning work hard...
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Heat wave in Southern Australia.
charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit SOUTH Australia is far from being out of bushfire danger amid warnings that this weekend's respite from dangerous fire conditions will be...
 
Wood Pellet Fired Boiler
It depend lot on type of insulation you have how many windows single pane glass where are you located, NH can be petty cool, there are many factors involved, but I think he needs to recalculate I...
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Holiday Season:
Merry Chr5istmas and a happy New Year to one and all. May all of you have a prosperous and healthy new year... Do right and live right.. Pax
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Australian electrical system
news: not 180°, hence the 2 don't fully add the two hot wires are said to be 'in six inch mark, the center. How far to directions. So if you go six inches one way, the neutral, and each end is a hot...
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6.5 HP air conditioning system
Some time back someone asked about one of my system here in my home in the tropics in Queensland Australia. So here is some data I logged today. I was actually charging the unit after repairing a leak...
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Central Air main return is filtered but not the small returns from the rooms?
In my moms house, there is a large return grill at the top of the stairs with a 16x20 filter that feeds directly into a large return plenum. The filter is mounted just above the grill, i.e the grill...
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HVAC ducts in Central NJ
Does anyone know where I can buy large plenum and return (16" X 8") A/C ducts or sheet metal (I am willing to make ducts myself) in Central NJ?
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Heading for the wet season
Here in Far North Queensland in the tropics we are heading for the wet season, no it has not started yet, but the temperature is heading up and the humidity is up. Yesterday here it was 35 c (95 f)...
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Your home AC prep for somer
It seems that every once awhile some uniform prospective buyers are giving wrong information on efficiency of Air Condition systems. Let me inject piece of my mind on efficiency of any Refrigeration...
 
Dumb question Aquastat
Looks like the majority of them are Honeywell made. Situation: Baseboard heated via recirculated hot water heated by nat gas. Think mine has decided to stop working correctly. At first I could...
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