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Comments (15)We built a house a couple years ago and had to move out of our home into a rental apartment for 3 months. Check out other companies similar to PODS to compare prices. There is another company called Door-to-Door. Same service, maybe cheaper. Using this type of storage is GREAT! Especially if you have a lot of larger stuff to store like we did. We moved from a 2800 sq. ft. home to a 900 sq. ft apartment. The great thing about it is you only have to move everything one time out and one time back in. If you use a storage unit, or store it somewhere else, you have to move it twice. We rented a two bedroom apartment so we could bring with us our comfort items, otherwise, we just took the bare necessities. We didn't even take our bedroom set, just put the boxspring and mattress on the floor. It might be a little more expensive, but well worth it. I don't know if you're moving yourselves or hiring movers, but this way saves you a lot of work and money, if you are paying to help with the move....See MoreNo power, 20 degrees outside, we're warm!
Comments (13)As a furnace repairman, it has long been very clear that there is a great advantage to having an alternate source of heat not dependent upon electricity to operate. Personally, I have and use a woodstove regularly, but gas fireplaces with self powered pilot generator systems are good. Since natural gas tends to be highly reliable, using either propane or natural gas is good. Two stories: A few years ago we had a huge windstorm that left huge numbers of people without electricity for days on end. One customer called me about repairing his gas fireplace, which wouldn't turn on. Upon inspecting the equipment, I found that the self powered gas fireplace worked fine, but the guy had a remote control installed in the equipment that operated on 120VAC --- so the fireplace couldn't be turned on because of the remote control. He was VERY happy that I could install a simple toggle switch to bypass the remote control, and seemed to have no complaints about having to get up to turn the switch on or off after five days or so of NO HEAT in his house! And then there was the guy in the ritzy neighborhood whose furnace had quit working. I think this was during the same windstorm as the last story, and the power had been out in the neighborhood for days. I fixed the furnace, and asked him if the neighbors found the noise of his electric generator which was powering the furnace to be annoying. He said that after the first day, his neighbor (with no power) DID complain about the noise. He sized up the neighbor and offered to let him plug into the generator if he had some extension cords. No further complaints! The guy was a real diplomat!...See MoreCambria prices per sq foot? + Cambria vs Home Depot/Lowes quartz?
Comments (92)No engineered stone is approved for UV exposure. It’s not an industry secret at all. None can go outside. Period. If your professionals that you worked with had done their jobs, you’d be an educated consumer and know that it’s not an exclusion just for Cambria. Direct sun from standard new windows shouldn’t pass enough UV to damage your floors, furniture, or e-stone. Standard windows already come with UV blocking properties, so if yours are so old that they don’t have it, you’ve got other issues about UV exposure in your house. Old windows need UV blocking film installed to avoid degradation to all kinds of interior finishes. Not just your e-stone. If it’s a relatively new window, that’s a conversation that you need to have with your window manufacturer. It’s defective. This is Not on Cambria. Or Silestone. Or Pental. Or Zodiaq. Or any e-stone manufacturer. New windows shouldn’t have issues with transmitting enough UV to damage your home.. Poop happens. This isn’t on Cambria. Talk to your window manufacturer....See MoreSizing for house about to be rewired
Comments (4)I agree with what's been stated. But if you're going to the effort of a whole house rewiring, there's no reason to not sit down and calculate the loads PROPERLY. Other than that we're just making conjecture. Frankly, I'd still put a 40A or whatever circuit into the garage. Even if you don't ever get an EV someday someone will put a welder or a pottery kiln or something out there. It was after that incident that I decided I better get the building and plumbing codes and learn them as well as I knew the electrical code just in case. Found two cases that saved me some heartburn on those as well. Tankless or not gas water heaters take only a few amps (and just have a 15A plug on them). All you have is control logic and a blower for the combustion air/gasses. Kurto is right. Having multiple panels will probably be obligatory just for the number of poles you need. In my 7000 sf house, I've got three. The main panel only has a few circuits, the feeders to two other subpanels elsewhere, and some random stuff out in the hangar and garages. Compared to the rest, getting the power company to drop in a 400A service isn't that big a deal in most places. The scary one for me was the 80KVA generator which is way overkill but the moron engineers who the architect employed were not able/willing to do a proper load sizing (80KVA = 400A fully loaded). I also sent a rather testy letter with two pages of code deficiencies after I got my plans back. Fortunately my guys who were doing the actual work see this far too often (code violations in the architects plans) and would have never built the house wrong....See MoreMike C
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