At Home In The Woods

[B7510HSD]

The heater is not fixed. The next morning it shut off after running 30 seconds. You can get it to work by taking off the grill and pushing a reset button. Yesterday I called the manufacturer. They are going to send me a new thermal overload device and a new grill with larger openings in the grill. The support person said that sometimes the heat from the elements causes the thermal overload to trip.

Gald to hear they are taking care of the problem!!

 

[Obed]

Today I ran a temporary Cat 6 wire from the phone network box in the basement to the office/dining room and moved the internet DSL modem from the basement into the office. Now my laptop has internet access via a network cable without having to use wireless. Our desktop computer does not have wireless and can now get on the internet.

I had a string running from the low voltage box in the office down through the wall into the basement for pulling network wires. Today we found that the string wouldn't budge. Either the insulation crew, drywall crew, or trim carpenter must have done something to bind the string in the wall. The string was useless so we had to run a fish tape from the basement up to the low voltage box. Once we did that, we pulled a new string down to the basement. Next we pulled a Cat 6 wire from the basement to the LV box in the office. We also made sure we left the string hanging so we can pull more cables. This wire is just temporary; eventually all the Cat 6 cables will run to the network closet.

The blue connection in the phone network box is for DSL internet; the orange connections are for phone lines. Very often, phone companies do not split the DSL signal from the phone signal. When that happens, you have to hang a filter on every phone in the house to remove the DSL signal from the phone line. We specifically asked the technician to split the signals in the phone network box.

The phone company has been very good at working with us; I've been happy with their service. They allowed us to locate the phone network box inside our house in the basement. Since the phone line runs from the street underground all the way to our basement, it will make it a little more difficult for a thief to cut the phone line before breaking into the house to prevent a security system from dialing out.

I do wish we had cut off the conduit sticking through the basement wall before the black phone line was pulled through it. I kind of thought the phone company would cut the conduit at a lenght to suit them but they just left it as is. I may eventually cut off that conduit and rerun the phone line to the network box when I don't have anything else to do in about 20 years.

I connected two pairs of wires in the Cat 6 cable to the phone network box and to two wall jacks. One pair is for DSL internet; the other pair is for the phone line.

 

[Obed]

We've been living in the house for a week now and have been letting the old cat get used to the house a little at a time. Tonight will be the first night she sleeps in the house overnight. We've been taking her back to the the camper at night until now. She has learned to go through the cat door that leads to the garage where her litter box is located. I really like not having a litter box inside the house.

The rainbow colored pants are on our 11 month old daughter. She is enjoying the house. She goes all over the place and is into everything. She follows me around the house on all fours like a puppy dog. She didn't have very far in the camper that she could go. Now she travels all over the house and loves it.

 

[CurlyDave]

...I do wish we had cut off the conduit sticking through the basement wall before the black phone line was pulled through it. I kind of thought the phone company would cut the conduit at a lenght to suit them but they just left it as is. I may eventually cut off that conduit and rerun the phone line to the network box when I don't have anything else to do in about 20 years.

You can cut that conduit in a few minutes without harming the cable inside by using a piece of mason's twine in a sawing motion where the conduit comes into the wall. You will cut through the conduit in seconds and then you just "walk" the cut portion around the conduit, taking care to keep the cable out of the way of the twine.

Use a good quality twine--Home Depot is good, I have never had any success with Harbor Freight twine for this application.

 

[tommu56]

You can cut that conduit in a few minutes without harming the cable inside by using a piece of mason's twine in a sawing motion where the conduit comes into the wall. You will cut through the conduit in seconds and then you just "walk" the cut portion around the conduit, taking care to keep the cable out of the way of the twine.

Use a good quality twine--Home Depot is good, I have never had any success with Harbor Freight twine for this application.

good point Dave using string but leave it 1or 2" away from the wall that way when conduit leaks water in to it and runs through conduit it can be deflected and not running down the wall.

tom

 

[Obed]

You can cut that conduit in a few minutes without harming the cable inside by using a piece of mason's twine in a sawing motion where the conduit comes into the wall. You will cut through the conduit in seconds and then you just "walk" the cut portion around the conduit, taking care to keep the cable out of the way of the twine.

Use a good quality twine--Home Depot is good, I have never had any success with Harbor Freight twine for this application.

CurlyDave, I can cut it with a hacksaw without harming the twine if I'm careful; I've done that before. The problem is the black phone cable. I'm really not supposed to disconnect the phone from the network box. I might even have to jimmy the network box to get access to where the phone cable connects to the network box. Without disconnecting the phone cable from the network box, I would have to cut a slit along the length of the conduit to slip the conduit over the cable.

 

[Obed]

good point Dave using string but leave it 1or 2" away from the wall that way when conduit leaks water in to it and runs through conduit it can be deflected and not running down the wall.

tom

I hadn't thought about that. Good point.

 

[tommu56]

I would cut the pipe and see how it lays on the cable and forget about it if it doesn't bother any thing.

If its in the way of something I would just unhook NIC and if there is a problem say you mean I wasn't suppose to do that!!!!!!:confused2:

tom

 

[Obed]

The exhaust vent piping for the gas furnace and gas water heater drain into the bucket shown in the picture. We have a floor drain below the bucket. However I have not yet run the floor drain piping outside from the exterior wall to daylight so the floor drains can't be used. So for now, we are draining the condensate from the exhaust vent piping into the 5 gallon bucket. We ran the heat pump for a few weeks and got very little water in the bucket. However, after we started running the gas furnace when it got cold outside, the five gallon bucket was almost completely filling with water in one day. Now I check the bucket every day.

Our furnace is set to run the heat pump until the outside temp gets down to 25 degrees F. At 25 degress F and colder the heat pump turns off and the gas furnace kicks in. Inside the house, you can tell when the gas furnace is running because the air coming out of the registers is much warmer the gas furnace is being used. If we were to leave the house for more than 24 hours, we would need to set the furnace so that the heat pump would solely run, ie. no gas, in order to prevent the bucket from overflowing.

 

[tommu56]

plumb it in t one of these

Little Giant 554405 Automatic Condensate Removal Pump - Vcma Series

There is usually a contact in them to shut off some thing if they get full and don't pump out hook that in series with the gas valve

tom