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Our job on Chebeague Island, off the coast of Maine
« on: June 19, 2014, 04:22:09 AM »

Here's a few shots of our project and what we woke up to! The land mass off in the distance is the mainland about 15 minutes travel with a powerboat or Ferry ride, a shot of the house from the front, house has no heat at all except wood stoves, homeowners froze their butts off last winter! We will be installing 1500 feet of 1/2 inch radiant with Ultra Fin under the main house that is a very tight crawlspace as well as some homemade towel racks in the bathrooms and a couple of cast iron rads in the upstairs bedrooms. OH I almost forgot the hot water, It will consist of 6 heat zones as well as a stub out for a future Gas wall hung boiler on the primary loop, all of it must fit into the utility room that allows me just 26 inches in width and just over 6 feet in height, it promises to be an interesting project, Oh again I almost forgot there is more, A future greenhouse loop will come off the boiler as well, see 2 stubbs of Logstor on right, beside my service trailer, I will get a better shot of the trailer after we clean it up a bit, what a mess!
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Re: Our job on Chebeague Island, off the coast of Maine
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2014, 04:45:53 AM »

My buddy and co- worker deep in thought, just out of bed
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Re: Our job on Chebeague Island, off the coast of Maine
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2014, 05:05:12 AM »

Slimjim, With a view like that, how did you get any work done?  No doubt you suffered through it.   ;D  Looks like a nice place to live.  Roger 
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Re: Our job on Chebeague Island, off the coast of Maine
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2014, 05:10:04 AM »

It's a totally different mentality out here, nobody registers their cars, almost all services are done by residents of the Island, the barge transportation for my truck and service trailer is about $300  each direction so you can see the year round residents are quite self reliant. Beautiful but Quite Expensive!
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Re: Our job on Chebeague Island, off the coast of Maine
« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2014, 05:14:51 AM »

Slim that is a beautiful place, I would live there in a heart beat. I bet that expensive to live is an understatement though !!!!!
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Re: Our job on Chebeague Island, off the coast of Maine
« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2014, 05:20:21 AM »

One country store on the Island and everything has to come over on the barge, most folks use their own boat and go to the mainland to save$
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Re: Our job on Chebeague Island, off the coast of Maine
« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2014, 07:21:13 AM »

Wonder if they get socked for a higher electricity rate? Must have a underground cable coming from somewhere?
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Re: Our job on Chebeague Island, off the coast of Maine
« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2014, 07:58:51 AM »

Next Island over has a massive oil fired generation plant that they cannot afford to run, Imagine that, you don't suppose that was subsidized by our wonderful and thoughtful state legislators?
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Re: Our job on Chebeague Island, off the coast of Maine
« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2014, 05:02:06 PM »

Slim,  what are you installing for a boiler. Very nice country.
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Re: Our job on Chebeague Island, off the coast of Maine
« Reply #9 on: June 19, 2014, 06:46:32 PM »

They are waiting for the new 250, I'll post some pics of the manifolds tomorrow, 8 radiant loops and 3  conventional heat loops for homemade bath towel warmers and cast iron rads, we will be here into the first of next week
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Re: Our job on Chebeague Island, off the coast of Maine
« Reply #10 on: June 19, 2014, 06:50:47 PM »

Hey Coolidge I just thought of something, I'm looking for a wiry guy that can wiggle into tight areas on his back to run the radiant loops, how about 2 days paid vacation on beautiful Chebeague Island Maine, FREE BEER after hours!!!!!!!
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Re: Our job on Chebeague Island, off the coast of Maine
« Reply #11 on: June 20, 2014, 03:33:53 AM »

How about beer before? I would love to Slim, but I am booked out for the next three weeks and I have to work weekends. Shure does sound like fun.
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Re: Our job on Chebeague Island, off the coast of Maine
« Reply #12 on: June 20, 2014, 05:00:07 AM »

So far it has been fun, today we start low crawling in the dirt crawlspace, I'll need lots of adult beverages as well as a shower tonight.
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Re: Our job on Chebeague Island, off the coast of Maine
« Reply #13 on: June 20, 2014, 05:18:50 AM »

Gonna use a compacted rock base for the 250 to sit on or mixing the cement on site?
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Re: Our job on Chebeague Island, off the coast of Maine
« Reply #14 on: June 20, 2014, 06:20:44 AM »

Stone and then cement pad, may even put a small plate exchanger and anti freeze the loop for snow melt in the pad, not sure on that.
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