You can use an old smart phone as a wireless hotspot and repeat from there. Again this is relative to how powerful of a signal it can generate.
What did you do to your shop today?
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You can use an old smart phone as a wireless hotspot and repeat from there. Again this is relative to how powerful of a signal it can generate.
Can't really say. I don't have natural gas available at my property. I only did a comparison vs propane which jumped in price this year and was forecasted to go even higher. Given the equivalent $/BTU between electric and propane it was pretty much a wash. Difference being propane would have added the cost of a tank or rental of tank. Renting a tank, you're basically then stuck with your supplier. Other part was, with the price of propane forecasted to go even higher whereas electricity pricing is regulated.
Once I get the doors, I'll see how it goes. With proper doors, it should get even warmer in there without adjusting the slab temp. I'm not shooting for T-shirt weather in there, just warm enough that I'm not having to wear insulated gloves to work on stuff.
One really nice thing is now quite these are. I've always found those overhead forced air gas units to be super loud. This is virtually silent.
Warm feet and a warm back beats warm air blowing in your ear. I miss my radiant floor heat.
Just watch for critters burrowing under the slab next year.
Once you get your doors you'll be able to take a nap on those floors.
You will want it in all your floors after this.
Good point. Never thought of that. They wanna stay warm too!
That slab is 18" below grade. If some little critter wants to burrow that deep to stay warm, hell they're earned it 😆
I'm surprised I haven't seen any raccoons or farm cats cozied up in there yet with just the poly in place.
Got fed up having to unsnap my programmable garage thermostat from the wall and bring it inside to warm up every time i wanted to turn the garage heat on when it was below 32 in the garage.
I'm too cheap to afford to heat the garage to 40 without it being insulated all the time.
So I downgraded to one that will actually work. The digi tstats hit 'lo' mode if it's below 32 and won't turn on until it goes above 32.
It's not programmable but at least it will work.
I'm too cheap to afford to heat the garage to 40 without it being insulated all the time.
So I downgraded to one that will actually work. The digi tstats hit 'lo' mode if it's below 32 and won't turn on until it goes above 32.
It's not programmable but at least it will work.
Your digital thermostat wouldn't work if it was below freezing? What the?????
he must have gotten the Central American version where it never goes below 32...
Yup. At first I thought it was a defective unit but I looked into it and it's a known design 'issue' for most new digital tstats.
Finding a thermostat that isn't wifi grid smart learning enabled these days is hard. I just want to turn the heat on and off in the garage!
I thought you were an engineer? Make one.
But, yes - digitization and the internet of things is a f*cking perverted problem.
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