Unintended consequences....... Oh, my. OJ messed up, but I'm not really understanding all the issues. Guess I'll keep rereading the post and maybe more of it will sink in. OK. The plan is to build a 9by14 GH on the south side of my home with a window that will open to the house to help with temp control in winter months only. Because a fireplace burns in the house pretty much all winter, the house is VERY dry. I did not anticipate the additional humidity would create serious problems. Do you think the window opening or the house siding could lead to the type of damage OJ talks about? I would love to keep the GH warm enough for tomato plants to survive the winter, but may add extra insulation around the tomato to limit the space that gets the higher temps. I brought a container in from the garden with a grape tomato in it. It sits in front of what will be the window into the GH. The tomato started blooming first of Feb. My experiment this year is to take cutting, with blooms, from that plant to root. Just trying to see if the blooming cuttings result in an earlier production of fruit. If so, I'll plan on keeping choice tomato plants going all winter. I LOVE homegrown tomatoes! Paul Robson is my most favorite of all time.

steve 75254, I believe Pentair now owns Paragon. You might e-mail Pentair to see if their "spa" light will fit into the Paragon niche. I suspect it might because most small light manufacturers will use a common niche. Good luck.

Davidahn, please don't think I'm just an angry man. Know that I've tried to adapt and deal with the situation as it is but I can't. I refuse to compromise quality and service for price and that is what it seems I must do to survive. I try to run my business in such a manner as to be fair to everyone. I pay my employees well, provide them with company vehicles, benefits etc. It's what I need to do to keep offering my customers quality service and an excellent finished product. Every time, without exception lately, As soon as I provide a quote on a specific piece of hardware my client calls to ask why I charge so much. The fact is that I mark-up my materials by what I consider to be a fair percentage but the internet shows them pricing at least equal to if not lower than my cost. My customers tend to be wealthy people, and I don't imagine that they got that way by selling products at cost or pricing their services low, but it seems that they expect me to do so. I simply cannot afford to work for bare wages. I have insurance, compensation, office staff, vehicle costs - all the things required to offer them the service they expect of me, yet they think I should install a product at their home for the price they see on the web. It baffles me to be honest. Last year I built a pool and spa for a nice fellow. I sent him to my distributor to choose his tiles. He spent some time there dealing with the staff and left with some samples he liked. I got pricing for him, again with a fair mark-up, and he price checked t on the internet. Of course, the online pricing was some 10% below my cost so he chose to order it there. When the time came, of course he expected me to measure his pool and give him quantities. Seems reasonable of course but in my estimating I used to work this into the price of the tile so now I'm essentially working for free. I give him the quantities, the tiles arrive, and we begin to install. Sure enough we're short of tile. I freak out a little, measure the pool again and check my notes...hmmm...should be enough. Talk to the owner and it turns out that he decided that I had over estimated and he knew better, cut the amounts by some 15%. So now my tile guy needs to go away and come back 10 days later, holding up the project and costing me money. Unfortunately this is not an isolated incident. In this case I had a long discussion with the client about how I priced things and why he should allow me to order the tiles but of course he knew better, at my expense. I'm not trying to get rich on every job here, just offer a good product at a fair price. Last year I made a whopping profit of about 4% after the dust settled. I've pretty much had it, it honestly isn't worth the risk anymore.

morton, thanks for the compliment on my pool, can't believe you remembered my color. impressive memory! i will give that set a try, can't really hurt. just looking to cut down on the bright whiteness of that new light. repair_guy, yes, i do understand that this is not the cutting edge technology, or the nicest way to do this. but i am just trying to work with what i have, since I just paid over $300 for this light and installation last month. and i am a believer in the saying that "willful waste makes for woeful want" so i just try to do the best with what i have if it is perfectly functional.