It’s Groundhog Day ! If you read last month’s summary, I was terribly slow producing the monthly summary I know you can’t wait to enjoy. Lame excuse: I was distracted by splitting firewood and keeping the wood stove stoked. lol lame for sure.
Good news to report. Finally got a replacement switchable relay installed on January 15th. The radiant heat system is back up and running ! We have thankfully put the heat pump and wood stove into dormant status. We enjoy a fire in the wood stove as much, or more than the average person, but – it’s constant work to keep a fire going all day and night. That’s all I have to complain about…
When temperatures were really cold (negative temps overnight, and single digits during the day; the concrete slab in the shop got down to 39 degrees. Shop air temperature was down to 40 degrees. Started to have some concern about the run of tubing closest to the exterior walls possibly getting down a temperature that could cause the water in the tubing to freeze. I rigged up a 120-volt jumper wire with a plug on one end to plug into the nearby receptacle, and the load and neutral wires exposed at the other end. The idea was to start and run the circulator pumps for the heat zones that had a tubing loop by the exterior walls of my shop and Carole’s studio. Fortunately, the relay arrived before I attempted that strategy.
No that both building are back to normal; operating temperature, I am back in the shop working on a couple projects. Susan has commissioned me to modify an armoire into a wine and liquor cabinet. I picked up the cabinet over the holidays. No heat in the shop made for a delayed start. I’ve come up with a good design and have purchased the materials. I should have it done by the end of February. Will have a complete writeup for next month’s summary.
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