Businesses deserve the opportunity to resolve customer complaints before their reputations become damaged. From what I could tell by researching the internet before I placed my orders, MariettaÂs Gardens enjoys an excellent reputation among a lot of satisfied customers. Do you suppose that either someone working for MariettaÂs or for the carrier might have messed up? Those things do happen, unfortunately, when employees make mistakes. I ordered daylilies from MariettaÂs about the same time that you did. They were shipped quickly, and all of the daylilies I received from them arrived in excellent condition. I live south of you in Texas too, and in our area near Houston weÂve had an extraordinary amount of rainfall this summer, along with high heat and humidity. Yet with all the orders received this month, I havenÂt experienced anything like you have. So I donÂt think buying daylilies this time of the year was the reason for the root rot and mold. Hopefully, you will find in a couple of weeks that all your daylilies are growing and have recuperated from the stress of transplant during July, as are mine.

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Was anything installed between the subfloor and the flooring? The ambient hot weather/humid conditions obviously affected your flooring. You got two different prescriptions because there are many ways to cure imbalances in moisture levels above and below flooring. Sealing and dehumidifying the crawlspace is just one approach. I have even seen situations in which existing flooring was just fine until a basement area was insulated and then finished. In those instances, the flooring crowned and gaps appeared between the boards.

I installed it all and plumbed it myself - Not a really difficult job . . . . maybe 3 on a scale of 5 The collector panel was $1K, the tanks were $600 for the pair, the circulator pump was $100, the differential controller was $200 and about another $300 for copper piping, valves, flowmeter and an analog temp guage. $2200 for the total system, give or take $100. We had no hot water heater to begin with, so we would have had to spend $300 anyway, so take away the $300 and the $400 in Tax rebates and the system actually cost us $1500 - I got $300 off my federal income tax and another $100 from the state My 'break even point' is about 3 to 4 years - It would be higher if I had paid another $1500 to $2K for a professional installation We're remodeling an old farmhouse, so we've never lived here with anything but the solar heat but the tag on the side of one of the water heaters says it costs $400 per year to run - It's a very high efficiency unit with 3 inches of polyfoam insulation, so a lesser water heater would cost more to operate. $500 to $600 per year is probably an average cost for domestic water heating per year for a family of four I REALLY don't understand why there isn't a larger push from the government on solar water heating. Unlike solar electric, or hybrid cars, this technology is pretty well perfected right now and the payback is much shorter than for just about any other 'green' energy source. It can be used in most places in the United States. The outside temp isn't a big factor in how well it works . . . . it depends more on how many sunny days you have If more houses had solar domestic hot water systems, we could make a huge dent in the total energy use of the country and just think of how much less fossil fuel we would consume Don