Yes we did have a uv running but we don't know how old it was. It wasn't burnt yet but when our water started to go green, that was the first thing we thought. The previous owners left all the equipment but we never actually spoke to them Soweto have no idea how old it actually was. Today the pond is most definately clearer than it was yesterday. I can see the bottom again which I am happy about. I guess I'm not looking for a crystal clear pond, I just want to be able to see the fish. I'm honestly really loving the pond and our daughter and I have named 4 of the 8 fish. So far we have Goldie (a golden colored butterfly koi), Shimmer (a silver butterfly koi), Domino (black and white koi) and Spunky (a white comet with 2 orange spots on the back). My husband thinks we're totally nuts!

My answer is: nothing. I love designing spaces, and I would want very much to start with a blank slate wherever I go. Oh, I may take a few seeds from plants that are good all-around fillers, but I would really want to design from the bare ground up. An arresting conversation. I've been thinking along these lines for a year or so now, without really realizing I was doing so. My DH has been muttering for years upon years that we should finish up the house (it's been in a continuous state of remodel for.e.ver) and sell it. I've been constantly expanding the garden, not really concentrating on the idea of leaving until about a year ago when, all of a sudden, he started actually doing the things that needed to be done to get us out of here. I figure we have about 1 1/2 years of work left to do on the interior, then it's on to other pastures. I continue to plant, transplant, sow, etc., but I didn't realize until today, while reading this thread, that a lot of my recent planting decisions have been centered around ease of maintenance and creating more of an "outdoor room." I've never really cared about ease of maintenance before, and I know for a fact that the "outdoor room" concept comes directly from home improvement television shows, and is almost entirely to do with increasing perceived value. There are a lot of reasons why a person would have to be a gardener to really want our home (no grass anywhere, for one), and an avid gardener with an appreciation for the offbeat, at that. I guess I've been thinking that if we can sell the garden as an extension of the living space, rather than something for the neighbors to look at, we might have a better shot at non-avid-gardeners without ripping out half of what I've done and sowing grass seed. Of course, I'm an avid gardener and I wouldn't want to move into a home with an already-established garden. Lots to think about.

Panasonic's site used to have a "flow calculator" where you entered the CFM you desired, and then entered the number of bends in the duct and the number of feet of straight duct in the entire run. It'd then spit out the CFM of the fan you needed to install in order to get the CFM that you actually want in the bathroom. Are you getting a metallic tinny type of noise in the bathroom from the roof vent? You might be able to deaden it by applying a sticky membrane (or several layers) to the underside of the vent's cap to add mass and knock down the acoustics of the cap. Something along the lines of a Grace peel and stick membrane. Really just a recommendation. I've never had to deal with an issue like that before.

Buehl, please do! I was just trying to save something of use. I'd been checking the GW all night, turned my back for 15 minutes to watch the Health Care vote, and whammo! all the posts were gone. I kept refreshing, thinking, "This can't be!"