Help Steve Dave Build A House (NOW HELP HIM TAKE CARE OF IT)

[wiley]

I think we’re going to put a mini-split in the garage.

I’ve been on the fence about this one as well

We just ran 220V & Mrs. Hamburg got a lathe. We have an oversized 3 car garage & we’re reorganizing the 3rd bay around the lathe. I’m pretty excited about the mini-split.

Similar situation.  I have a 2 car garage with an expanded bay in one side (10’x15’).  I use it as my wfh setup + garagre related work bench.  The garage is a pretty nice temp until it gets into the 90’s then it sucks.  This seems like the best solution i’ve been presented.  I have access to mobile ac unit, but I don’t want to lose any floor space.

I would prefer to put my workspace in the basement.  But it’s unfinished and i just dumped 40k on new windows in the entire house.  So that’s on hold while we replenish savings

[TheHamburglar]

I have no idea when you’re supposed to get new windows. I have hard time believing it’s just insulation. That’s a lot of gas/electricity bills being 20% lower to get a ROI back of $25k-$40k.

[steve dave]

Do your old windows still work? If so you don’t need new ones.


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[IPA4Me]

Do your old windows still work? If so you don’t need new ones.


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Unless you have single pane energy hogs, SD is right as usual.

Best bang for your buck is to pop the trim and seal the window with non expanding foam. That's where the energy loss is for most modern windows (built since 1980s).

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[wiley]

Do your old windows still work? If so you don’t need new ones.


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Yeah, ours were about 35 years old, failing, and were starting to fall apart.  We had 1 or 2 that might have been salvageable, but at the end of the day all were replaced.


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[wetwillie]

How many windows did you get replaced for the 40k?

[wiley]

How many windows did you get replaced for the 40k?

18  But of course, nothing was remotely standard.

Some had to be tempered because they are so close to the floor.

And then we did triple pane on all windows facing west (6 of them).  We have 2 bedrooms and an office that gets no shade once the sun is at its highest until sunset.  So those rooms have the highest range of temperatures compared to the rest of the house.

Then our master has a large single opening that houses 3 windows.  We could have gone a cheaper route saving us some decent money, but the interior designer of the house veto’d the look.

We got a significantly lower quote from window world, but felt better about the windows we got from this other company.