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I won't comment on the advisability of the plan but the farms that I work with almost all have Maxon valves on their natural gas dryers. Of course theirs are much bigger than what you need, they typically have a 2" line running to a 25 million BTU burner) but it looks like they make some...

I think you will be fine if you are attaching each to seperate sides of the stud bay. What makes me a bit nervous is that it sounds like it is almost all of your low voltage wiring. If you wanted to go with a "belt and suspenders" approach, you might consider putting the high voltage wiring...

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OK, it sounds like you have gotten a bit of an education on splitter losses :-) so that is good. I am not completely following what you setup is however, So a few questions: How many outlets do you need active? I see that you have them in all 4 bedrooms, do you want those all hooked up? I...

BSR, this brings up a good point. ALWAYS check with or know the local code before attempting anything like this. sic--this is right, with careful planning, often drlling through studs can be minimized. I typically see the need for the "ever fireplace" TV installation. Dependng on the homes...

Generally the benefit of a 4 post rack is for mounting heavy items that need support front and back. Generally this is done with rails. For example i am designing my system that will have 3 rack mounted PC's. (NAS, Video/Sage Server, CQC/Audio Server) as well as an Extron Matrix switch, KVM...

You are correct that a 2" conduit can run no problem in the stud bays of a 2 x 4 wall. If you look at my quote, I am talking about running THROUGH a 2x4. In the code in most areas (check your local code) a single load bearing 2x4 can only have a maximum hole bored of 40% of its width. This is...

I agree with the need to keep up humidity. This is needed in the winter in the kind of cold weather we have in MI. Summers it is generally too high. We try to hold 40% RH. Without supplemental humidification it can drop as low as 20%. The tuner for our grand piano said the best thing we...

I see that a big part of your cost is the 2" pipe runs. Are you sure that you need 2" in all these locations. In my experience 2" is a real PITA to run, because you can't run it through a standard 2x4 so I would expect this to cost more. I picked up some 1 1/4" Carlon resi-guard cheap and ran...

I have worked from a wiring perspective with both of these series of systems. Both are pretty similar and really very easy. Plug in the CO lines to the hub, and plug in a homerun line for each station. Really all there is to it. From a programming perspective, I have done some minor...

I am pretty sure that I have seen powered cold air returns somewhere. This may be a solution to put a fan in the cold air return coming from the warmest rooms to force this heated air back through the air handler.

I am in the process of building a fileserver for my house which I will rip my DVD's to. There are a few factors that led me to that decision. 1. I am setting up a dedicated fileserver. This helps with a couple of the issues that upstatemike raises. For one it greatly extends the lifespan of...

If you need a whole kit, this one is good. I have it, works great http://biz.tigerdirect.com/applications/Se...&CatId=1801

I notice that you are pulling a lot of wire. I am planning on doing the same, at least to the locations that are tough to get back to. I am not planning on terminating it all though. If you are using coax x 5 for your video, I wouldn't expect you will use all 5 Cat5e for example. I am just...