Snow in the South?

Dwalk · Jan 17, 2018

I-10 going into Houston Monday night....roads shut down, drove around for 5 hours trying to find away to work.

tonybolton · Jan 17, 2018

Damn, did you flip it over?!??! LOL

Also, speaking of 1st world problems.....I got a head light out. Time to start a GoFundMe account.

j-mox · Jan 17, 2018

We got just a normal gas heat. It's been in single digits and low teens and it will run for maybe 15-20 minutes and shut off for 45-hour maybe more. Never really timed it. We keep thermostat at 67-68*.

May depend on how well your house is insulated and where your thermostat is at. Ours is in a hallway but with a bathroom directly across from it. I keep the register completly closed in the bathroom and others in the vicinity closed down to keep from kicking it off too soon. Its a balancing act if you really think hard about it. I have a summer register set-up and a winter set-up. Open more downstairs in winter cause heat rises, and closed in summer. Bedroom most are closed in winter cause it gets too hot if we have door closed to sleep, but open in summer to keep it cooler.

Condition, amount and single or double pane windows make a huge difference too

tonybolton · Jan 17, 2018

My house has some sealing issues in various places. I can't seem to find the right material that will bond to cardboard well. Tried Big Red, Hubba Bubba but they don't last.

(((see what I did there)))

broncomike · Jan 17, 2018

halcat said:
I can remember "back in the day" ( 63' I believe, I was in 3rd or 4th grade), we would get a snow and the moms would start calling the school super to see if there was school. He announced on the radio" if there is 12 inches or less there WILL be school in Cumberland county tennessee". Now , well you know what happens now.

There wasn't a gazillion lawyer billboards around back then.

Jody Treadway · Jan 17, 2018

About 2" of snow here in Asheville but the temp is right around 15*. Roads are pretty horrible out there

Luckily I have a JK to add hydro assist to in the shop today...

tonybolton · Jan 17, 2018

Jody Treadway said:
About 2" of snow here in Asheville but the temp is right around 15*. Roads are pretty horrible out there

Luckily I have a JK to add hydro assist to in the shop today...

Put some studs in them tarz!

LightBnDr · Jan 17, 2018

I'm gonna be a player and document my build in the shop thread when I'm done.

I suppose it's not a huge surprise but I wonder why more of the true subzero guys on here don't run hydronic radiant heat. Meaning floor heat that is run by woven circuits of pex tubing inside the slab or routed between your joists that recirculates hot water inside of a closed system to heat the floor.

Then it radiates upward to heat everything in contact with the floor as well as evenly heating an entire room or house level.

On top of pulling crazy low amps so you can run your heat on a small generator in a power outage. As well as almost never running your furnace through the winter months.

I'm in the middle of my shop build and I have run my 1200ft of tubing among other install procedures.

Anyway, that's what I'm doing these days along with a home build that will have 3 separately controlled zones so when I'm 70 my wife and I can heat only the common areas while we die slowly. Lol

But yeah it's cold here

I'll post up the build in the shop thread when I'm done

onepieceatatime · Jan 17, 2018

Re: Re: Snow in the South?

LightBnDr said:
Then it radiates upward to heat everything in contact with the floor as well as evenly heating an entire room or house level.

That's the reason were putting a wood furnace in our basement. It'll have an outlet plumbed to the register and an outlet blowing in the basement that'll hopefully help keep the basement and first floor floors warm.

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Bebop · Jan 17, 2018

I'm in VA, next to Roanoke.

Snowed like 2in this morning.

All the blue collars are here since 5AM running the plant.

Half the white collars are out "because of snow". Stupid.

Jody Treadway · Jan 17, 2018

tonybolton said:
Put some studs in them tarz!

Sticky SX's bark on ice. :****:

mdo817 · Jan 17, 2018

A little snow in middle Ga

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tonybolton · Jan 17, 2018

Jody Treadway said:
Sticky SX's bark on ice. :****:

....rub it in.

ForMud · Jan 17, 2018

LightBnDr said:
I'm gonna be a player and document my build in the shop thread when I'm done.

I suppose it's not a huge surprise but I wonder why more of the true subzero guys on here don't run hydronic radiant heat. Meaning floor heat that is run by woven circuits of pex tubing inside the slab or routed between your joists that recirculates hot water inside of a closed system to heat the floor.

Then it radiates upward to heat everything in contact with the floor as well as evenly heating an entire room or house level.

On top of pulling crazy low amps so you can run your heat on a small generator in a power outage. As well as almost never running your furnace through the winter months.

I'm in the middle of my shop build and I have run my 1200ft of tubing among other install procedures.

Anyway, that's what I'm doing these days along with a home build that will have 3 separately controlled zones so when I'm 70 my wife and I can heat only the common areas while we die slowly. Lol

But yeah it's cold here

I'll post up the build in the shop thread when I'm done

One of my biggest regrets when I built my shop was not running the lines in the concrete. Even if you don't have the money for the whole system, you'll have the lines in place when you do have the money.

blacksheep10 · Jan 17, 2018

LightBnDr said:
I suppose it's not a huge surprise but I wonder why more of the true subzero guys on here don't run hydronic radiant heat. Meaning floor heat that is run by woven circuits of pex tubing inside the slab or routed between your joists that recirculates hot water inside of a closed system to heat the floor.

Then it radiates upward to heat everything in contact with the floor as well as evenly heating an entire room or house level.

On top of pulling crazy low amps so you can run your heat on a small generator in a power outage. As well as almost never running your furnace through the winter months.

I'm in the middle of my shop build and I have run my 1200ft of tubing among other install procedures.

We just put pex in Dad's shop floor, just not sure how to warm the water yet. When I build my shop house, doing it there as well. The one time I worked a COLD weekend in a hydronic radiant floor shop I was blown the F away. I mean, long sleeve t shirt and it was 20 outside. No furnace running, no hot and cold zones, everything you touch is warm and radiating heat to you. Super badass

gottagofast · Jan 17, 2018

I love my new weather app

TacomaJD · Jan 17, 2018

Sumbitch, water is froze in our 2nd bathroom. The hot water, not the cold water, which is crazy. My buddy we bought the house from said all water supply lines are pex, so they shouldn't bust, but I dont see it thawing before tomorrow. Was 12° a couple hours ago (around 10am).

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Hope Springs Hauler · Jan 17, 2018

TacomaJD said:
Sumbitch, water is froze in our 2nd bathroom. The hot water, not the cold water, which is crazy. My buddy we bought the house from said all water supply lines are pex, so they shouldn't bust, but I dont see it thawing before tomorrow. Was 12° a couple hours ago (around 10am).

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Definitely need to look into some insulation. 12 isn't cold enough to freeze in a heated house.

poolman · Jan 17, 2018

Hope Springs Hauler said:
Definitely need to look into some insulation. 12 isn't cold enough to freeze in a heated house.

I agree, and hot water will freeze before cold everytime.

TacomaJD · Jan 17, 2018

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I'd imagine they are froze in the crawl space. One thing I have got to change on this house is the vents in foundation. They are open screen vents, no option to close them to keep the wind out. My old house had ones that you could slide open or closed. The frozen 2nd bathroom is on the end of the house the wind has been blowing against, so I figure the wated lines probably run close to a foundation vent and the wind helped freeze em. Nothing is frozen in the kitchen or master bath.

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