gregmac

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Professional software developer, with several years working on industrial control and monitoring systems. Slowly remodeling parts of my house.

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Dec 30	answered	Should I have replaced my water heater's shut-off gate valve with a ball valve?
Dec 29	answered	Automated/Controlled Lighting - Options?
Dec 29	answered	Plastic Wall Anchors Without a Collar
Dec 28	comment	Why does my furnace turn off when the thermostat's LCD dims? There's usually an indicator the furnace is "on" (I would guess the flames icon to the right of the temperature in your picture). Does that turn off as well when the LCD dims?
Dec 21	comment	Should I use a subfloor for a finished basement's floor? Chris, I used what looks like a similar product called DeltaFL, using the same method. I was concerned about height (old house, basement is not high) so an additional con for me with the rigid foam was losing 1-2" of height. I blogged about my subfloor here, for future reference: gregmaclellan.com/blog/basement-sub-floor
Dec 21	comment	Can I change a 1-gang electrical box to a 2-gang electrical box? Pardon my ignorance, but why not just buy a power bar in this situation? You can get surge protection as well, and you can get power bars with flat (low-profile) plugs so they easily fit behind furniture pushed against the wall.
Dec 20	comment	What can I use to automatically turn off a bathroom heater after a fixed time? The LTB02-1LZ is rated for 1800W Incandescent, 20A Resistive/Inductive at 120V, so for any 120V heater it should work. It's hard to answer otherwise since you didn't mention what the heater actually is but this would be my default answer.
Dec 20	revised	What can I use to automatically turn off a bathroom heater after a fixed time? added image
Dec 20	comment	Is it OK to turn off power to a fuel furnace? Except on a two-wire system, connecting other wires may still cause damage. It's better to be safe and turn off the power than have to spend a bunch of money to replace a control board.
Dec 20	answered	Is it OK to turn off power to a fuel furnace?
Dec 14	answered	Do I need to do anything for my external spigots during a short hard freeze?
Dec 14	comment	Do I need to do anything to protect my pool during a rare freeze? I'd agree, and it's especially important to keep the pump on because it's the water in the pump and pipes that will freeze first, which will crack the pipes and/or pump/filter parts.
Dec 11	awarded	Quorum
Dec 10	comment	How do I install a wood stove as an auxiliary heat source? Many thermostats have a "fan on/auto" switch which controls the fan - in "auto", they just run when the furnace is running, but in "on" they run all the time. You could switch it to "on" to effectively use the furnace's fan to distribute the heat from the wood stove.
Dec 9	comment	Can a locksmith open a deadbolt lock? Just search youtube for Lock bumping. Videos like this (youtube.com/watch?v=SP920ttSctU) show a "high security" Medeco lock being bumped in ~20 seconds. There's another one of a 12-year old girl doing it as well.
Dec 7	comment	How do I take a live wire off of a two way switch? @shirlock homes: Good point, and I always do that as well. If it doesn't beep, I'm skeptical until I actually hear it beep by testing on another circuit. Then I go back and confirm it really isn't beeping on the wire I'm about to touch.
Dec 4	answered	How do I take a live wire off of a two way switch?
Dec 3	answered	How can I insulate my garage door?
Dec 2	comment	What the heck is/was this keypad for? @Saxtus: that's why I went back to the Wayback machine, it looks like they changed their logo a few years ago, before they were acquired by Universal Services.
Dec 2	comment	What the heck is/was this keypad for? The wayback machine only has the first letter of their logo, but it looks like it matches: web.archive.org/web/20030909151808/http://… (their web page from 2003). I believe this is the right answer.