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well I have to leave you guys to the shoveling and melting of snow, got to go get the bike cleaned up for the ride in the morning!!!! stay warm!!! will be thinking about you'll

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well I have to leave you guys to the shoveling and melting of snow, got to go get the bike cleaned up for the ride in the morning!!!! stay warm!!! will be thinking about you'll

Don't forget the sunscreen...

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Sounds great, hope you can get a few shots!

Ed

Ed, there's a bunch of junk stored in the room too. You can never have enough space in NYC! This should give you an idea of what the Power Plant that runs the system, looks like! We'll see how it looks! Hoist!

Engine Room Shots! 1st-Control Panel #1

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Control Panel inside

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Both Control Panels

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HW Thermal Storage Tank, Glycol Heat Excghanger, Primary Pumps and Piping

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House Electrical Panels and Whole House Drinking Water Filter

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Radiant Heating Panel Zone Pumps

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Wall Mounted Boiler (1 of 3 boilers)

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Radiant Heated Floor Zone Valves and Manifolds

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Last one. As much of this tiny room I can get from the entrance door!

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Howie you were right that is a lot of equipment to stuff into the basement looks great though. I like the fact that the control switches each have their own phenolic label calling out there function. Looks like factory, what are you really making down there?? Thanks for posting.

Ed

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Looking at your setup, thats about as good as it gets in the Northeast.  I saw this once before, Robert Shephard, the actor, (tv show about his home a few years back) has this setup in his home somewhere in the rockies.  I would say shoveling snow, dealing with ice on the driveway, steps ,etc., is half the hassle of living in places such as we do.  I seriously thought of doing something like this when I did a remodel here in Maine about 5 years ago, but I move around too much.  I would think that you would have to plan on staying put for quite sometime to make the expense worthwhile--or maybe I'm just cheap like your neighbor.

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Howie you were right that is a lot of equipment to stuff into the basement looks great though. I like the fact that the control switches each have their own phenolic label calling out there function. Looks like factory, what are you really making down there?? Thanks for posting.

Ed

Ed, I'm in Commercial and Industrial Air Conditioning. I used one of my panel vendors to build them. I designed the ATC System and the whole plant like I would a Commercial Project, not resembling Residential Systems. Primary/secondary piping, VSD Pumps, redundant primary pumps w/ pump alternator, 6-Stages of heating (2/boiler) tied together with a Boiler Sequence Controller, 12 zones of heat and 2 zones of snowmelting w/ 9 loops each zone, and Radiant-heated Garage floor (from the Glycol side)! You name it, it's probably there. It's a Radiant Heating Engine Room! Hoist!

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Looking at your setup, thats about as good as it gets in the Northeast.  I saw this once before, Robert Shephard, the actor, (tv show about his home a few years back) has this setup in his home somewhere in the rockies.  I would say shoveling snow, dealing with ice on the driveway, steps ,etc., is half the hassle of living in places such as we do.  I seriously thought of doing something like this when I did a remodel here in Maine about 5 years ago, but I move around too much.  I would think that you would have to plan on staying put for quite sometime to make the expense worthwhile--or maybe I'm just cheap like your neighbor.

No Seegmon, you're right. You better plan on staying. It was quite expensive overall. Normally you wouldn't design it this extreme. But I tend to want the best! That's why I have a SERK and hang out here! It's difficult to recover any financial investment. There's no payback. Except the luxury of never having to shovel! Hoist!