steam generator versus gravity-feed iron
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amerec vs mr steam vs thermasol steam shower
Comments (98)I don't understand the last post to this thread? Thermasol offers a 5-year replacement warranty on all their controllers. Why would you pay to replace it? Maybe you had it more than 5 years? If so, then it's too bad it failed but how long do you expect it to last? I doubt you could expect a car to last reliably with no problems longer than 5 years, so why expect that of your steam shower. I have a PRO-395 that I installed 14 months ago. It just failed tonight. Not sure if it is the controller board or the heating element, but it stopped producing steam. Called tech support and they are shipping me a new replacement unit tomorrow and paying for the install, all at no cost. I am going to call them tomorrow to talk to them about the fact that it failed so soon. They are supposedly the best and charge a premium for their product. I am curious how they will explain that it failed so soon. Will update this post if they say anything interesting. Update: Spoke to them this morning and they are sending me a new unit, and pay for installation charge. One other thing. Someone in the tread above talked about making their shower with a 10 ft ceiling. Don't do that! That is just dumb, and will affect the experience of a good steam. If you ever want to make your steam shower bigger, do it in the length or width but never in the height. My house has 10 ft. ceilings, but my shower has a 7.5 ft up to an 8 ft. ceiling and that is plenty high enough. The 7.5 ft part is over the bench so the fact that it is lower there makes no difference because you are sitting down....See MoreSteam vs. Hot Water vs. Force Air
Comments (8)Stick with the steam that is the most confort as far as its not dry heat like a forced hot air. Why anyone would go to forced out air is just taking the cheap way out. A hot coil in an air handler will work better. Also have e you thought of radiant floor system at all or off the return of your boiler you can have a circulaing pump and add baseboard to the new room. if 75 gallon water heater isn't cutting it you may want to try a tankless water heater. Don't go with forced hot air you wont be happy. Here would be my options that you can run by a good plumber. 1 tankless water heater to do radiant floor or coil on a air handler, with a heat exchanger you can also do domestic water and never worry about hot water. the neg side about this is tankles has to be on a maintnace program for scalling and general PM. 2 put a B&G pump on the return of your steamn boiler and use that hot water to do a basboard or new radiaters in your new addition. for your a/c I would go witgh a ductless systeem if its only one big room. here are the three manufactures I would go with 1. tankless I would go with takagi ( make sure its sized correctly) 2. air handler I would go with first company. 3. fujutsi if you where using a ductless. If it was my house I would use high baseboard and heat it only to 140 degrees stick that on a tankless water heater and get my domestic hot water thrue that also. or radiant floor instead of baseboard. Use the fujitsu unit for the a/c of the house....See MoreA new steam iron & boiler
Comments (1)You can buy a gravity feed iron (Sapporo is a reliable brand) for under $100 brand new. Get one that comes with a teflon sole plate. I'm not saying the one on offer isn't fine, just that you can do better....See MoreContainer Plant Nutrition and Feeding
Comments (40)I've been interested in mycorrhizal associates of plants for decades now. Very generally speaking, most studies I've reviewed where an attempt to "inoculate" soils or media with specific strains of known mycorrhizal species have been disappointing. Notable exceptions were in cases of extremely depleted soils, mine tailings, and other essentially "sterile" media. Now this is not at all intended to cast doubt on the importance of mycorrhyzae. Just the opposite, they are indeed being proven to be everywhere, in every type of plant community, and in virtually every geographic region. What I am saying, is that so far, man-made attempts to duplicate what nature does every day in this regard have been decidedly unspectacular. It seems that two effects are in play: One, if the soil and associated plants have been in association with one another for a good length of time, very likely such mycorrhizal associates are already present. Adding more, in the form of supposedly viable propagules will not effect the balance. The other aspect is, nobody really knows exactly what species is associated with a given landscape plant. True, there is such knowledge in silvicultural studies, usually associated with coniferous species, but to simply extrapolate what is know there to your average garden situation is extremely unlikely to work. Additionally, we do not know what is happening when a soil already colonized by such organisms is having another strain, or an altogether different fungal species, introduced to it. Are we accidentally ruining a good thing? Are we just wasting money and effort? I find such matters of immense interest, and I don't think the book is closed, just that perhaps it needs to be set aside for a while and taken up again later when understanding has increased. This is complicated stuff, especially in a world where very large acreages of land are given over to just two plant species-corn and soybeans-where the parameters of nutrient requirements have been pinned down tightly. In other words, mankind's largest horticultural enterprises are vastly more simple than what is likely happening in that little wood lot that didn't get knocked down for more development near your home. We're rank beginners at this...may as well face it. +oM...See Morechelone
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