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Heat Pump

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This Old townHouse had only baseboard heaters.  Well, there is also a wood stove but I've never used it.  I'd dreamed for a long time of installing a heat pump.  It was a project of a magnitude that I was never quite able to summon the nerve to tackle.  And then, one day, someone told me how to play musical breakers.  Now I had power and the project was in motion. A couple punch outs, followed by a fast game of Musical Breakers, and viola - 240 volts were available (bottom of right breaker column). Punchout Drunk Love The next piece to fall into place was discovering that Lowe's sold DIY heat pumps (Heat Pumps for DummIYs). The bracket, for the indoor unit, has numerous holes, to match a wide range of stud spacings.  The US standard is 16" o/c.  The studs I found, where I wanted to locate the unit, were 24" o/c.  Go figure!  The bracket was just able to reach! After mounting the bracket, a hole is drilled, through the external wall.  The...
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Weendoze

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The townhouse is the unit is on the north end of the building.  The north wall has no windows.  The lot to the north was slated to be developed, so I waited until I knew where the two new buildings would be, to confirm that there was a logical location, on each of the two floors, to add a window.  My hope is that the windows will offset the feeling of being in a tunnel. East face of four unit townhouse.  The unit is on the north end. North unit, seen from street.  New building is to right. North wall, viewed from the north.  The windows would look onto the space between the two new buildings. Upper floor window location, viewed from second bedroom, across hall. Upper floor window location, viewed from master bedroom, across pony wall.. &&
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