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The author of that article is clueless ! Too much time in the books and not enough time in an attic ! Nuff said...................

Not to me but I do remember my electrician buddy destroying his wife's Kirby vacuum when it sucked up about a gallon of water from an underground pipe at his cottage (feeding a boathouse) and then just went poof ! We used to use the grocery bag trick on 4" pipe up to 600-700 feet with a shop...

Another tip Tie the string to the two handles of a grocery store bag and feed the bottom of the bag into the pipe after you turn on the shop vac. When the tone of the shop vac motor (regular vacuum works too ) changes you know the bag and string are now in the shop vac. Be sure to shut down...

If you are allowed to (and they may not !) I would be tempted to keep the well for gardening, power washing etc. Up here we get billed for incoming water by the cubic meter and then we charged for the same metered amount as sewage even if you dump the water on the ground. I use my rain barrels...

I mounted an ms13 motion sensor ( if that's the dark grey waterproof one with a screw on battery lid) inside the lid of our green bin (organic waste) and have an event that runs only on Wed to say it's been emptied. I used a small piece of wood on the outside to make sure the sensor had a firm...

Buy yourself a decent blade and forget about chipouts. I used to have a "Forrest" "Woodworker II" blade and I could put a factory edge on melamine panels with it. Didn't need a mitre saw in those days - cut everything on the table saw. 90 tooth carbide if I remember correctly. Best money I...

Hi John, It's been a while but didn't the config page for the original acrf plug-in hide behind all the other open windows ?

Sorry to hear about this experience. Just a caution. I had a buddy broken into a couple of years ago. (He lived out in the boonies). He had everything taken replaced ( 2 big screen tv's and a PC) by insurance. Three weeks later to the day they did again and got the brand new stuff as well...

Check with your local model airplane/model race car shop. There must be lots of servos etc that would do this ?

Mark, Too late now but is the $149 promo still on or was it over on Sept 16th as per your original post on the HS message board ? $149 US is about $6000 in Canadian funds ! Just wondering ?

The Bell contractors we used years ago (in the 80's) did driveway cuts using 2 blades on a concrete saw - laid in the wire then re- tarred (is that a word ? ) the joint. Just some info !

Put a pull string on the light ? ?

Maybe the believers could wrap a Q-Ray bracelet around the water pipe ? Might save a few bucks in cost and electricity ?

If you have an x10 motion sensor MS13 and a covered litter box try to mount the sensor right in the litter box ( likely facing down would be best) ! I've used these as mouse detectors for years with no problems.

Wow ! By the time you add in the costs of running the 110v electric water heater and the 110v circulating pump and the high cost of the tankless heater and additional plumbing work (plumbers aren't cheap) I think you have pretty well eliminated any savings of going tankless. I thought the...

Mike, I use Homeseer and free MRB1WireTemperature plug-in. Their are lots of really good paid plug-ins available as well. Good luck...............

I completely disagree ! Not to rain on your parade but send your MEP engineers up here to my hot water heated radiator equipped 1950 built boiler equipped bungalow and they will soon discover the difference between 30% and 70% humidity. After about 3 days at 30% they will be pulling dead skin...

No cat 5 here , I just used 4 cond telephone wire and cheap "$ store" jacks. I crimped the sensors into teledapt jacks and did the bridging of the sensor pins right in the phone jacks. I have 6 installed now and a few more to go. I made sure to add them one at a time so I could be sure they...

Same item as "powercost monitor" from www.bluelineinnovations.com The"powercost monitor' is $150 up here (Ontario) but this B&D one is only $99 for Americans. I don't think there is a Homeseer plug in for this unit (yet) ? I remember reading in the docs that the "blueline" one does multiple...