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Comments (15)We have a lot of fuel and heating customers with seasonal camps and vacation homes. Your issues are a classic example of why I don't recommend power-venters in seasonal homes unless someone is around to check on them. With a chimney you have a large margin of error and no potential points of mechanical or electronic failure. With chimneys there are no issues caused by wind currents, poor burner setup or snow levels. Plus they're never installed under decks, under windows or hidden in the bushes. The soot issue might simply be a boiler and burner setup issue. The power venter is effectively an artificial mechanical/electronic chimney. While power-venters are functional, they can't overcome poor oil filtration, poor boiler/piping design, poor burner setup and they're no replacement for qualified professional technicians that know how to use their electronic combustion test equipment. Replacing a 4 year old burner sounds fishy. What brand and model of boiler and burner do you have? Does the boiler have a tankless coil that produces hot water? Do you have a two-line oil system or a single line system with a Tiger-Loop?(With a 2-line system you're constantly circulating cold oil through the lines, filter(s) and strainer) Do you have a decent spin-on .10 micron oil filter? Is the boiler oversized (short cycling)? Pictures of the boiler and piping would help if you have any from a few angles. Concerning safety monitoring devices, I know of freeze alarms, water alarms, low fuel alarms and smoke detectors that dial out to telephone numbers in the event of a problem, but I guess you'd be looking for a smoke detector with relay that would kill the power to the burner....See Morestained rift-cut oak veneer cabinets? pictures please!
Comments (16)Thank you so much for the links! nycbluedevil - here is the link to your threads. Your kitchen and bathroom are beautiful. It looks like you used stained walnut for your kitchen and stained rift cut oak for your bath. Beautiful! http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/kitchbath/msg1011163919891.html http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/bath/msg0622101018782.html detroit_burb - those links are great! I am really torn. We are stuck with clear coat, plain sawn red oak floors which are pretty grainy. We are going for a more updated clean line contemporary look with our ranch style house. My concern with the walnut cabinets is that the grain will compete with the grain of the floor hence the interest in rift cut oak as an alternative. But I really like the color of natural walnut - nice too that it's a little easier on the budget because we would just clear coat it rather than stain it. If we go rift cut - we would have to stain it to get the darker contrasting cabinet color that I think the space needs but it's more expensive and I wonder if it's too modern. Ugh. This is the decision I've obsessed about the most. Bathrooms were easy! Lighting easy! It's just these cabinets! Any thoughts greatly appreciated. I just saw this thread too which helped - but still I'm wondering about how it all works with the red oak floors. Following this post too... Here is a link that might be useful: Thread on rift cut oak, mid century and other options...See MoreNeed Advice on Damage Caused by Painters
Comments (98)This has evolved into quite the interesting thread to say the least! I manage and perform all the work on my own kitchen remodel for many of the reasons mentioned here. Finding quality tradesmen is just too hard these days in my opinion, I have high standards and small details will bother me. My project includes the complete tear down of an old 1960s kitchen my home came with, about 250 SF, down to the foundation. New structurally improved floor framing to meet stone tile deflection standards, two new load bearing walls to account for a row of new windows along the sink, and steel stud framing behind the range wall to allow for flush range installation without ugly trim. The total project is only about 50% done and I started this project in April. That's about 8 months working 2 hours a day after work, and 8 to 10 hours per day on the weekend. Not to mention the hundreds of hours spent having to research and learn each trade I tackle. I am fortunate enough to be a licensed practicing civil engineer in my state, so I can stamp my own drawings submitted to the city. Everything else has been self taught however, and the process has been incredibly slow. Is this what it takes to get exactly what you want out of a major renno? I hope not, but it sure seems that way from what I've seen....See MoreSmoke Smell Issue
Comments (21)Our house that we have now was a smoker home. Like Cor, the walls just ran with nicotine. What wasn't ripped out was scrubbed and Kilzed. If they do decide to go forward, they need to clean everything. A month or so after we moved in I kept getting a whiff of cigarette smoke every once in a while and couldn't figure out where it was coming from. I finally figured out it was a lightbulb in the hall closet....See Morejrb451
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