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What is the best way to add a vent over this door?
Don't. Buy a same-size and same handedness door with the vent built in. Remount the hinges and you are done.
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What is the best way to add a vent over this door?
Common HVAC grilles are routinely installed directly to framing (or even drywall, with hollow wall anchors). Cold air returns are traditionally just framing voids. This situation is really no ...
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Steps to install a natural gas ceiling garage heater
The instruction manual includes most of the details you'll need. It is quite a bit involved, particularly if you do not already have a vented gas appliance in that location. As I see it, basically:
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How to fit a fireplace insert into my existing fireplace?
You're replacing the fire with an electric fire, rather than wood.
The replacement fire does not need to exactly fit the front hole of the fireplace; the wood fire does not.
Consider it as being the ...
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How to fit a fireplace insert into my existing fireplace?
Anything you get will require custom fitting of trim.
Be aware that, depending on the model, there may be a requirement to vent for air circulation. I have installed a number of these type of "...
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How do I turn off my radiator without a knob?
Try when the heating is on, and when it's off. It may be less jammed at one temperature than the other. I have freed a stuck valve with a couple of drops of light (or penetrating) oil applied where ...
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How do I turn off my radiator without a knob?
It looks lie it has been painted over. Scratch the paint around the knob and the nut under it. Then gently turn one way and the other, to break the paint. If it doesnt work then as mentioned in the ...
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How do I turn off my radiator without a knob?
I tried turning the bit that sticks out with plyers, but I can't get it to budge.
Turning that shaft is probably what the knob used to do, and its being seized up is probably why the knob is missing ...
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What keeps rain out of a Vertical PVC Concentric Vent?
There is no rain cap with this type of vent termination. "Why not?" you may ask?
The exhaust piping from a condensing appliance is designed to carry liquid. The appliance category is named &...
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Central heating loop not getting hot
This is not the answer people would want, but it is what happened.
After replacing the mixing valve, and experiencing the same behaviour, I looked for another option.
When running nearly, but not ...
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How to wire ecobee thermostat to central heat pump (two wires only)
You'll need to pull a new cable
Your old wired controller communicated with the indoor unit over a proprietary two-wire interface. As a result, you'll need to completely redo the wiring in order to ...
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Must a 4 ton variable speed air handler use a 4 ton heat pump?
It depends on the details of the system of interest. Some brands will communicate and limit the air handler to the available capacity, some will assume matched capacity and underperform like a ...
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How can I heat up my apartment more efficiently?
Add insulation:
start adding heavy curtains to the windows on the north side of the building,
then insulate the ceiling of the top floor (under the roof), if you have enough height, consider a ...
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Is it OK to replace only one baseboard thermostat?
Go for it. One of my friends has had to replace one of their baseboard thermostats twice while the other two are the original 1980s units. Unless this is a very weird system, there's no connection ...
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Central heating loop not getting hot
Your symptoms point to the assessment of the mixing valve "appearing to work" being incorrect, as you have flow only when that is set to fully cold. If setting that to "other than fully ...
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No flow rate in underfloor heating manifold
As mentioned in the comments, I found the cause in the end: there was an extra automatic valve added between my thermal store and the UFH loop. Once I connected this to activate at the required time, ...
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