(iii) the little AC unit doesnt lose too much ground to conduction during the day tomorrow when it gets to be 108 fucking degrees in seattle, so that (iv) my baby and my cats do not die of heat poisoning
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i will keep you all up to date on these proceedings
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exciting update i forgot to get a ladder so i was a little worried about the upper windows HOWEVER i have discovered by trial and error (it turns out our stools do not stably stack on top of one another) our cat trees can support the weight of a full grown man
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making fantastic progress will poast photo when complete
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found a DRAFT sealed it almost done with the main room
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related: if you use a portable AC unit the plastic exhaust hose gets hot, which means some of the gains from the unit are dissipated immediately. always use the minimum hose range. I further mitigated this with improvised insulationpic.twitter.com/0Y8EWuu8Kw
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ok final treatment of the main room. the Chinese plastic foil was a pain to cut with precision given my tools, so I used that for large areas and touched up with aluminum foil (ht
@petergodofsky for the idea) its hard to see the plastic foil but itll be obvious in daylightpic.twitter.com/HbTsuqxVzP
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further picture post-tidying. if you are doing some home improvement project to impress your wife its important to clean up afterwardpic.twitter.com/WbianymgTY
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I may unplug our refrigerator at peak heat tomorrow and replug it in at night. can pack the important frozen stuff into the deep freeze in the other room. Everything should keep for a few hours at least, and it would take pressure off the AC.
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Replying to @eigenrobot
If you're worried about peaking demand in the grid, rooftop solar matches ac demands almost perfectly. Might be worth getting just for the 20 hours per year when the grid might go out plus it makes you money
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im renting here possibly yeah when I own, eventually, if its in a place that ever gets sun
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ahhh Hmm I seem to remember there's a plug-and-play battery somewhere
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https://orison.com/product/ doesn't seem ready yet unfortunately
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