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The Wade
Uses: condo, commercial
Address: 1105 Pandora Avenue
Municipality: Victoria
Region: Downtown Victoria
Storeys: 5
Condo units: (studio/bachelor, 1BR, 2BR, 3BR, penthouse, 2BR + den, junior 1BR, junior 2BR)
Sales status: sold out / resales only
The Wade is a two-building, 102-unit mixed-use condominium and ground floor commercial development spanning th... (view full profile)
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The Wade | Condos; commercial | 5 and 4-storeys | Completed - built in 2021


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#181 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 22 March 2017 - 11:48 AM

The technology is called "surface mount cove electric heat."

 

Oh, that's not ducted then.  That's just electric radiant heat, no forced air.  They just mount up, rather than down.  Ya, they are good in apartments where baseboard space is short.


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#182 Mike K.

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Posted 22 March 2017 - 03:21 PM

Oh, ok I getcha.

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#183 Tigger

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Posted 22 March 2017 - 06:09 PM

I wonder, is that in the new building or the old?

 

I believe it's the old building, according this illustration, if I'm interpreting correctly.

 

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#184 Mike K.

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Posted 22 March 2017 - 06:11 PM

Ok, I thought so.

 

When repurposing a former office building (or any old building) into modern homes sometimes you get little oddities like that.


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#185 Kapten Kapsell

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Posted 22 March 2017 - 07:00 PM

What percentage of the units have sold here?

#186 LJ

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Posted 22 March 2017 - 07:03 PM

Is it better to force heat down from above, than from below? Isn't this making the heat system work against the natural forces of rising heat? Personally, I know I'd rather have my feet warm than my head.  ;)

That's how all the houses in the US are built. You have an attic mounted air handler/furnace and an outdoor compressor for A/C.


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#187 sdwright.vic

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Posted 22 March 2017 - 07:15 PM

Uh... no. My house had the furnace in the basement and my AC outside all the way up to 2001 when I stopped living there.
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#188 LJ

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Posted 22 March 2017 - 07:20 PM

Uh... no. My house had the furnace in the basement and my AC outside all the way up to 2001 when I stopped living there.

I've owned 4 houses in three different states over the years and they all had ceiling heat and cooling. Every new subdivision is the same that I have been to. I have never had a basement though, none of the new houses have them, they are all built on slabs or just a crawl space.


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#189 sdwright.vic

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Posted 22 March 2017 - 07:29 PM

Where did you live? Cause I grew up in the Midwest and they are still building basements.

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#190 Mike K.

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Posted 22 March 2017 - 07:30 PM

What percentage of the units have sold here?

 

I believe over 60%.


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#191 LJ

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Posted 22 March 2017 - 07:30 PM

Where did you live?

WA, CA, AZ


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#192 sdwright.vic

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Posted 22 March 2017 - 07:32 PM

Everywhere East of the Mississippi. Yet also lived in CA and WA
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#193 sdwright.vic

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Posted 22 March 2017 - 07:34 PM

In CA and WA the furnace was always on the main /first floor with air pressure out to the first and second. Yet I saw several basement furnaces in SF
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#194 lanforod

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Posted 26 March 2017 - 09:39 PM

Mike, I think you'll prefer radiant to forced air anyways. Better for allergens and no ducting to keep clean.


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#195 Mike K.

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Posted 27 March 2017 - 06:22 AM

Thank you, that sound pretty good.

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#196 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 29 March 2017 - 11:34 AM

This is what I mean about decent visitor parking for Wade... this is about 8:20am yesterday.  At least 30 stalls empty.

 

 

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#197 sdwright.vic

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Posted 29 March 2017 - 05:36 PM

^Until it's being used by people who live in the Wade?
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#198 Mike K.

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Posted 05 April 2017 - 10:46 AM

Sales are nearing 70% sold-out now.


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#199 Kapten Kapsell

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Posted 05 April 2017 - 12:56 PM

Hopefully construction will start soon. 


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#200 Rob Randall

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Posted 08 April 2017 - 06:55 AM

Thought it would be good to get a photo of the building in its original state before deconstruction begins.

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