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[SPIDERMAN]

C'mon, now! The most efficient and most comfortable heating system available- RADIANT? Of course man! My entire house is heated by radiant. In the floors in some rooms, and on the walls in others. My detached garage floor is radiant heated too! 400,000 BTUH's to radiant heat whatever the hell I want to, inluding an unlimited amount of instantaneous domestic HW from it too!

Hoist!

Howie,
         You forgot to include mention of the front lawn, the driveway, the walkways, the rear lawn, hell, most of Queens 

For you newer members, Howie has an OPEC Preferred Customer card. 

B B

[Hoist!]

So just on the house do you see any heat savings. Did you put separate thermostats in major rooms? I was looking into tankless hot water too.

I'm sure there are plenty of savings. It's the most efficient system I could design. I don't make more than 120 degF HW for heating, and bump it to 140 degF for Snow Melting and DHW requirements. All the heat is instantaneous. It's a "0 Mass" system, so all the heat goes to it's intended locations. My boilers are 99% efficient condensing boilers because of my low temp capability. Radiant heat is a perfect matchup to condensing boilers for that very reason. A cast iron boiler can't be used in a condensing mode as it will rot out from the condensed flue gases.

Extremely difficult to measure the savings with the fuel costs all over the place the last few years. When I first put it in, my bill didn't change cost wise, but that included many snow melting days as well. The way I see it, I operate that snow melting system for free, compared to the operating cost of my old CI steam boiler with CI radiators!

I have a thermostat in EVERY ROOM. Each room is a zone. I also have 24 loops in 2 zones of Snow Melting with automatic sensors to turn the system automatically when it snows.

Hoist!

[Hoist!]

Howie,
         You forgot to include mention of the front lawn, the driveway, the walkways, the rear lawn, hell, most of Queens 

For you newer members, Howie has an OPEC Preferred Customer card. 

B B

That's what I'm SUPPOSED to be melting B B!!! That's what it's for! Everything but the lawns. I could'a done them too if I wanted to grow grass year round!

Hoist!

[amigo Jorge]

They sure are real - they are from a town called Versoix situated next to Lac leman which is near to Geneva in Switzerland. I'm sure Jorge won't mind if I post a couple more.

Mi amigo Nige...that's is hell of cold....Holy chit!!!

[porthole]

... Now what do you call that???

Someone who was a little too warm last week an was reminiscing on what it use to be like in MI.

You'll be back soon 

[porthole]

We have our own problems when it gets cold

[porthole]

And in my part time gig we tow boats - year round sometimes.

[iski]

And in my part time gig we tow boats - year round sometimes.

Suppose a tow truck to drive out to get them would need pontoons, just to be on the safe side.

[Talon]

Went out for a short ride today, it's around 54*, clouds building over the mountains, they say tomorrows high around 17* and some snow!! 

[RJ749]

We went fishing at our normal spot the early part of June up in Manitoba in 2004.

Didn't know we'd be ice fishing for the first 4 days

[Screamin]

We went fishing at our normal spot the early part of June up in Manitoba in 2004.

Didn't know we'd be ice fishing for the first 4 days

Dam near as crazy as duck hunters       

[Steve_G]

I tried to go ice fishing yesterday, but by the time I'd cut a hole big enough to get my boat in the water, it was too dark to see.

-Supposed to be about 40 below with the wind chill for the next 2 or 3 days.  I doubt I'll be going for a ride.  (I don't have one of them new-fangled electric vests). 

[RJ749]

Dam near as crazy as duck hunters       

Life experience and I don't need to again....thankyaverymuch

Man is not supposed to walk on water, even if it is frozen, at least not in June

[Twolanerider]

One of those "only in the midwest" type of days today.  Saw reported temps of 74 degrees this afternoon.  Drove to my sister and brother in laws on the other side of town this afternoon so they could use the pickup to get their Christmas tree; which we got while I was wearing a short sleeved t-shirt and my niece was wearing flip flops and some knee length kind of trouser.

Right now, however, I just saw a reported temp of 16 degrees before sliding back to the house.  Wind is up again.  It's been sleeting heavily for the last hour with freezing rain for the hour before that.  I hope Santa falls and busts his ass for bring this winter crap back.

[RJ749]

That is wild Don, never got above freezing here today.

Lazy day after our Christmas party and a drive home in blowing snow.