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[AlwaysFSX]

1 minute ago, Real_PhillBert said:

I really should get one of those used oil furnaces for the garage. 

aint that just a barrel fire

[TVwazhere]

2 minutes ago, AlwaysFSX said:

aint that just a barrel fire

It's a fancy barrel fire!  

[Real_PhillBert]

7 minutes ago, AlwaysFSX said:

aint that just a barrel fire

 

5 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

It's a fancy barrel fire!  

^^^^ That. More or less.

 

Im in that awkward area where I consume enough oil to be a pain in the ass, but I'm not sure it's enough to really use as a heat source for the garage. 10 oil changes a year is only 15 gallons. Which may not really cut it for a garage furnace.

[TVwazhere]

5 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

 

^^^^ That. More or less.

 

Im in that awkward area where I consume enough oil to be a pain in the ass, but I'm not sure it's enough to really use as a heat source for the garage. 10 oil changes a year is only 15 gallons. Which may not really cut it for a garage furnace.

You only need it for the winter though, right? How bad are North Dakota winters temperature wise?

[Real_PhillBert]

2 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

You only need it for the winter though, right? How bad are North Dakota winters temperature wise?

If you were intermittently heating you probably could do it. I think. 

 

Right now things are abnormally warm. Usually January doesn't get much about 0°F, and we usually have a week or so in the middle that never gets about -20°F. Last year we had two days of -40°F and that sucked a lot. And heating here can be more expensive because of the endless wind that will find and exploit any of the smallest air leaks. 

 

I'm just starting to talk about building a new house (our current house is really small) and want to do floor heat in the garage, and keep it at 60° all winter, so I can wash cars indoors but you probably already guessed that.  A waste oil boiler would be ideal, but I 15gal/yr will not cut it for that.

[TVwazhere]

6 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

want to do floor heat in the garage, and keep it at 60° all winter

Isnt it more expensive to do a heated floor after the floor is already installed, rather than just getting the heated floor put in during initial constructon?

[Real_PhillBert]

2 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

Isnt it more expensive to do a heated floor after the floor is already installed, rather than just getting the heated floor put in during initial constructon?

Yes, much more expensive, as the floor basically has to all be removed, glycol tubing installed, then floor repoured. 

 

Putting the tubing in is fairly inexpensive if you do it right away. 

[TVwazhere]

Just now, Real_PhillBert said:

Yes, much more expensive, as the floor basically has to all be removed, glycol tubing installed, then floor repoured. 

 

Putting the tubing in is fairly inexpensive if you do it right away. 

I would imagine. So was it a missed opportunity? Or did you always plan on it but things prevented it from occurring at the same time as the Garage build?

[Real_PhillBert]

4 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

I would imagine. So was it a missed opportunity? Or did you always plan on it but things prevented it from occurring at the same time as the Garage build?

I think we might have a bit of a miscommunication. My shop, with the two post lift and in floor lift is on a separate piece of land, that basically doesn't get used in the winter. The garage at my house is about a step and a half above a tent. I'm talking about getting rid of the house, not the shop. 

 

The shop did not get in floor heat because it doesn't really get used in the winter, and if it did, heating a 40x60 steel building would be extremely expensive. So when I do need to use it in the winter I use a portable Kerosene heater and make it workable. 

[TVwazhere]

26 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

I think we might have a bit of a miscommunication. My shop, with the two post lift and in floor lift is on a separate piece of land, that basically doesn't get used in the winter. The garage at my house is about a step and a half above a tent. I'm talking about getting rid of the house, not the shop. 

 

The shop did not get in floor heat because it doesn't really get used in the winter, and if it did, heating a 40x60 steel building would be extremely expensive. So when I do need to use it in the winter I use a portable Kerosene heater and make it workable. 

Ah. That makes more sense. 

 

I was picturing your house like this assuming your shop was your garage:

[Real_PhillBert]

4 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

Ah. That makes more sense. 

 

I was picturing your house like this assuming your shop was your garage:

*SNIP*

Not crazy far off...

 

 

Extending the garage back to the window in the kitchen, and going a bit wider for elbow room. At least that's the current version of the plan, it will almost cetainly change again at some point haha. 

[TVwazhere]

1 minute ago, Real_PhillBert said:

Not crazy far off...

 

Extending the garage back to the window in the kitchen, and going a bit wider for elbow room. At least that's the current version of the plan, it will almost cetainly change again at some point haha. 

This isnt too far off from the floor plan that my uncle has for his upcoming house in florida, though his is one story with no basement. You could cut the laundry room in half as well (I never see a need for a wash sink in there personally) that way you dont have a weird wrap-around garage storage area

[Real_PhillBert]

17 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

This isnt too far off from the floor plan that my uncle has for his upcoming house in florida, though his is one story with no basement. You could cut the laundry room in half as well (I never see a need for a wash sink in there personally) that way you dont have a weird wrap-around garage storage area

The builder has this same floorplan exactly like you say, with a laundry room about half that size, but the little woman wants the extra room for some big laundry organizer rack thing that she has envisioned. I didn't argue because 1) if she ain't happy, no one is; and 2) that weird space behind looks about perfect for a milling machine...

 

The first two stalls will be 30ft deep and the third is something like 44ft. I'm also pushing the side out a bit to 36ft. 

[AlwaysFSX]

2 hours ago, Real_PhillBert said:

I think we might have a bit of a miscommunication. My shop, with the two post lift and in floor lift is on a separate piece of land, that basically doesn't get used in the winter. The garage at my house is about a step and a half above a tent. I'm talking about getting rid of the house, not the shop. 

 

The shop did not get in floor heat because it doesn't really get used in the winter, and if it did, heating a 40x60 steel building would be extremely expensive. So when I do need to use it in the winter I use a portable Kerosene heater and make it workable. 

I think it's more of an upfront cost but there's geothermal systems that just flow water through an exchange underground where it's warmer than ambient temps in the winter / colder in the summer. Would be closer to 50* than 60* but that's still an improvement I imagine.

[aDoomGuy]

12 hours ago, Real_PhillBert said:

Not crazy far off...

 

 

 

Extending the garage back to the window in the kitchen, and going a bit wider for elbow room. At least that's the current version of the plan, it will almost cetainly change again at some point haha. 

Here, let me fix that for you. Remove the unecesarry parts.

Also instead of laundry room you can store car parts in there. 

 

[Bitter]

Laundry room/parts wash station with hot tank machine!

[Eastman51]

Gave the Corolla it's first pressure wash, and gave the new wheels a good cleaning. 

I also swapped from cheap no-name halogen bulbs to some nice Alla LED fog lights on my daily driver. The difference is night and day, almost literally

[Bitter]

Those fog lights might as well be high beams with that much glare, please don't use them around traffic.

[arnavvr]

I don’t think I’ve ever posted my car here, but here it is!

 

It’s a 2001 (March of 2001) BMW 325i with a 5spd manual.

 

Sorry for the pictures, we had a wind storm here in CA and it kicked dust all over the car

 

Also @bcredeur97next time you spontaneously drive thousands of miles...maybe go west

 

[Bitter]

8 minutes ago, arnavvr said:

I don’t think I’ve ever posted my car here, but here it is!

 

It’s a 2001 (March of 2001) BMW 325i with a 5spd manual.

 

Sorry for the pictures, we had a wind storm here in CA and it kicked dust all over the car

 

Also @bcredeur97next time you spontaneously drive thousands of miles...maybe go west

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Forever-Bumper-Improved-Formula-Larger/dp/B00FIU54BW/

 

Use that to fix your black trim. You need to use a strong cleaner so mask off the car well around where you're working, scrub it clean (I ended up using a harsh all purpose like purple power or simple green full strength and then oven cleaner followed by an acetone wipe), then apply 2-3 coats use an old microfiber rag to buff the dye into the plastic to preserve the texture of the plastic on the last coat and don't go too heavy on the preliminary coats.

[vetali]

On 1/20/2021 at 7:32 AM, TVwazhere said:

So the beginning of January marks four years of owning the ST, however to date I only have 37.8k miles on the Odometer. Of that , about 30k of them are from me, meaning I've only driven on average 7500m (12000km). 

 

Anyone else fell like they barely drive their vehicles (with context of it being a daily driver) or is it just me?

I am at 13k miles with 2 years ownership here in March. A lot of my driving last year was when rona hit and everything shut down. The roads had nobody on them and it was so nice to just cruise around. I am still looking for something else, but being patient for the right thing to pop up.

[Eastman51]

8 hours ago, Bitter said:

Those fog lights might as well be high beams with that much glare, please don't use them around traffic.

Nah, they're fine. I've driven behind my friends with and without the fog lights on, before and after the LED swap. None of them think the fog lights are too bright, in fact, they think my headlights need aimed because my low beams are borderline too high.

 

Edit: its probably just glare in my phone camera.

Proper LED lights won't blind anyone. The key is that the light emitting chips are the same size, shape, and placed in the same location compared to a halogen bulb; if they do, they will have the same cutoff lines as a halogen bulb while having more/stronger light within the region its supposed to.

[Bitter]

10 hours ago, Eastman51 said:

Proper LED lights won't blind anyone. The key is that the light emitting chips are the same size, shape, and placed in the same location compared to a halogen bulb; if they do, they will have the same cutoff lines as a halogen bulb while having more/stronger light within the region its supposed to.

No, but ok.

[bcredeur97]

14 hours ago, Eastman51 said:

Nah, they're fine. I've driven behind my friends with and without the fog lights on, before and after the LED swap. None of them think the fog lights are too bright, in fact, they think my headlights need aimed because my low beams are borderline too high.

 

Edit: its probably just glare in my phone camera.

Proper LED lights won't blind anyone. The key is that the light emitting chips are the same size, shape, and placed in the same location compared to a halogen bulb; if they do, they will have the same cutoff lines as a halogen bulb while having more/stronger light within the region its supposed to.

even OEM's LED lights blind me pretty often... 

and that's with all the R&D done by a manufacturer. 

[vetali]

7 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

even OEM's LED lights blind me pretty often... 

and that's with all the R&D done by a manufacturer. 

Like the previous gen rav4s and corollas. Terrible headlights.