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[sebberry]

Boy I am not familiar with this at all. Why are the coming on every 15 seconds, wouldn't they just come on when heat was required? From what I gather these are meant to keep the temp at a constant level +/- .15 degree. Is that why they are cycling so often? I think I would go back to the old mercury switch and let the temp change a couple of degrees before they came on.

 

By cycling the heat in short bursts they maintain a more even temperature.  By running the heater until the mercury switch trips at the desired temperature, you end up over-heating a good portion of the room. 

[LJ]

^Yeah but it comes on a lot less often which seems to be your complaint with your system.

[sebberry]

I guess it depends on the temperature of the room and the set point.  If my room is 19 and I set it at 21, I don't notice it so much, but if it's 19 and I set it at 19, go to bed and the room drops down to 18, it cycles a lot more. 

 

I think it's just the older heaters that make it more noticeable. 

[phx]

Maybe it's time to replace them.  They don't cost much and are easy to replace.

[MarkoJ]

As an owner-builder be prepared to have a flexible work schedule as quite a few things coming during the course of the build that need attention.  Last week, one of the trucks delivering backfill went over the curb and ran over the neighbouring sprinkler box....neighbour discovered it, driver was not caught in the act so it's really my word against trucking company but in the meantime I am stuck footing the repair bill to maintain positive neighbour relations

 

The framers came back late this week, but managed to get a bit done in two days.  I'll have more pictures next week as the structure rises out of the ground.

 

 

 

[Mike K.]

Wouldn't setting up a camera or several cameras be a good idea while construction goes on?

[MarkoJ]

Wouldn't setting up a camera or several cameras be a good idea while construction goes on?

 

It would be helpful but only for very specific scenarios.  This sprinkler box was a ways away from the home and a camera wouldn't have captured it.  Also, would be tough to monitor interior work with cameras and can't see too many trades’ people being too comfortable giving their best quote with a bunch of cameras sitting around  

[jonny]

Wouldn't setting up a camera or several cameras be a good idea while construction goes on?

 

That would be just a tad too neurotic, dontcha think?

[Mike K.]

You do realize you're being filmed literally everywhere you go nowadays, right?

[pherthyl]

You do realize you're being filmed literally everywhere you go nowadays, right?

 

Well setting up cameras at your residential construction site in central Saanich is a sure way to get all the trades on the island talking about how they once built a house for some crazy paranoid guy.  Never mind the costs which will be well in excess of the occasional sprinkler box.

Edited by pherthyl, 26 November 2014 - 01:10 PM.

[dasmo]

I would set up Go Pros to do a time lapse of any house I ever built from scratch. Hardly crazy.  

[Mike K.]

^so would I. That would be awesome.

 

Every construction site I've ever come across has cameras setup all over the place. I'm not sure why this is suddenly so bizarre.

[pherthyl]

^so would I. That would be awesome.

 

Every construction site I've ever come across has cameras setup all over the place. I'm not sure why this is suddenly so bizarre.

 

On residential construction sites outside the crackhead core?   

[Mike K.]

Really?

[jonny]

You do realize you're being filmed literally everywhere you go nowadays, right?

 

What's your point?

 

Spending a grand or whatever setting up candid cameras at your home's construction site is probably going to end up costing you more money and time than you'll ever recover in the unlikely event of any sort of malfeasance.

[dasmo]

It's about making a time lapse of you custom house build! Doesn't need to be a grand. You don't need the latest GoPro... Setup 2 cameras. Any surveillance / monitoring benefit is secondary to having the time lapse of the build... It's a wonderful thing to watch later... plus if you aren't on site you can watch the dailies to get an idea what's happening. 

[Mike K.]

What's your point?

 

Spending a grand or whatever setting up candid cameras at your home's construction site is probably going to end up costing you more money and time than you'll ever recover in the unlikely event of any sort of malfeasance.

 

My point is if someone feels a home owner is neurotic because there's a camera at his construction site then they've just woken up from a 10 year coma or spent the last decade living in the forest.

[jonny]

^ You are suggesting setting up several cameras for the construction of a single family home.

 

I would guess that most homes in Canada do not have a single camera set up, never mind several cameras set up. Only neurotic homeowners would have several cameras set up around their property.

[Mike K.]

Evidently this hits a very sore spot for a couple of you. Yikes.

[jonny]

Evidently this hits a very sore spot for a couple of you. Yikes.

 

No, just trying to inject some logic into the conversation.

Edited by jonny, 26 November 2014 - 02:19 PM.