AC Work & Other Stuff
August 3 - 6, 2007
I was off again this weekend. Mike continued working
without me. He is narrating this installment, too.
This is what the incoming water service in your house
looks like if Primitive Pete installs it. Prop it up on 2 x 4s
and call it a day. Actually, I've just installed the big blue
thing. Our well water is high in sulfur and iron. (It’s very
common in the area.) It’s not in high enough quantities
to make the water undrinkable, but it’s high enough to give
the water a funny smell and stain the plumbing fixtures.
The blue thing is an iron/sulfur filter to (hopefully) eliminate those
problems. I say "hopefully" because this cost a couple of hundred dollars.
An iron and sulfur treatment system could run into the thousands.
I’ve never had particularly good luck with making leak-free
joints with this kind of piping, so this arrangement is only
temporary until I know for sure that it’s leak-tight, then
I’ll put in a proper support system.
THE END IS NEAR!!!
THE END IS NEAR, I SAY!
I say "the end is near" because this is an air-handling unit.
Some might call it a furnace. They’d be wrong, but so what? "Mike’s
just an anal engineer," they’d say. Anyway, this air-handling unit is the
very last large expenditure. Not that it was that large. We got an incredible
deal on it from Calvert Plumbing, Heating and
Air Conditioning.
John Smyth, the owner, is just one heck of a nice guy. Thanks again, John!
Believe me, if you need a plumbing and heating contractor, give
John a call. He’ll definitely treat you right.
This is what the heating element inside your air handling
unit looks like ... a giant toaster element.
What the???
A visitor.
Or maybe it’s a resident. “It” is a five-lined skink (a lizard) that was hanging
out in the garage all afternoon. The concrete floor was nice and warm I guess.
Whenever I got too close, zip! off to the hole in the block to hide in.
Meg had to take a break. It was hard watching me dig a hole and set all those
blocks.
This is the base for the condensing unit to be installed soon. Ya see that little black
dot directly above the dryer vent? That’s a gas pipe, which is where I was planning
on having the LP gas enter the building. Eh. Wrong. Too close, it turns out, to the dryer
vent and the condensing unit. It needs to be about 15 feet to the right of where it is.
The return air ductwork. To the right is above the house. To the left, the
garage.
This is a picture that should have been posted a few weeks ago
when I was working on the heating system. The orange tubing at
the bottom of the white box feeds the radiant heating system.
Previously, it was just temporarily connected. Well, it’s still
somewhat temporary since I don’t have the gas connected yet.
I gotta move it, remember?
This is where the air-handling unit will go. The little grey box
("disconnect" to my engineering friends) is for the air-handling unit.
The finally complete return air ductwork
The supply air for the bedrooms.
This is a 200-amp panel that I am rapidly filling up.
I still have a few things to add to it yet.
Rain! It dropped the temperature about 20 degrees in 20 minutes. Unfortunately
it raised the humidity about 20% and it soon became unbearable. I headed home.
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