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Q. Regarding your contempo article, I additionally accept a rotten egg aroma in my hot baptize acquired by a new baptize heater.
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When I contacted the manufacturer, it mentioned that removing the anode rod would annihilate the problem, but said that would abandoned the assurance on the unit.
Since I am additionally on a well, I contacted the baptize pump company, which adumbrated the rods would become "coated" over time and the aroma should go away. But it has been about eight months, and still there is a smell. (The aggregation did say the timing would alter based on baptize usage.)
The old baptize heaters were 20 years old, so I apperceive I got better-than-expected life, but I never had this botheration before. Do you accept any added suggestions, aback the assurance would be voided by removing the rods, and will the aroma go abroad over time already the magnesium is no best exposed?
A. Aback two metals are affiliated to anniversary added in a baptize medium, one will bite to assure the other. Magnesium and aluminum are two metals acclimated as sacrificial anodes to assure any animate genitalia in glass-lined heaters, magnesium actuality the bigger one.
You could try to accession the temperature in your baptize boiler to 140 degrees for a few canicule to see if that eliminates the rotten egg smell. Already it is gone, acknowledgment the temperature to a added energy-saving 120 degrees.
Another way to annihilate the aroma is to cascade several pints of hydrogen achromatize in the catchbasin to annihilate the bacteria. You should accept a accountant plumber do this for you first, again install a appropriate T so you can do it yourself in the future.
Another achievability is to alter the magnesium anode with a powered anode, which is affiliated to an electrical aperture but uses basal current.
Q. A abbreviate time ago, addition wrote to you about infrared/quartz heaters, and you declared that EdenPURE heaters were fabricated in the U.S. As I was absorbed in these heaters and was activity to acquirement one to supplement our heating, I went to a bounded barn aperture to analysis them out. Account the admonition on the box, I was abashed to see "Made in China" printed on it! The absolute artefact had "Made in China" printed on the aback as well.
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How can you advance a artefact as actuality fabricated in U.S.A. aback "Made in China" is printed all over it? I achievement you anamnesis your statements, as this is ambiguous readers.
A. What you acquaint me is outrageous! I apprehend an ad in our bi-weekly advertence that EdenPURE had congenital a huge branch in Canton, Ohio, and that the heaters were fabricated there.
I accept aloof looked up the company's website, and this is what I found: "Engineered and advised in the U.S.A., the new EdenPURE GEN4 uses distinctively advised SYLVANIA Quartz bulbs as a calefaction source, forth with our new 'EdenFLOW Direct Air' technology for alike added able and alike calefaction distribution. And new to the EdenPURE artefact band is the EdenPURE 750. Proudly fabricated in North Canton, Ohio, the Archetypal 750 carriageable boiler allows you to apparatus breadth heating and ambition an breadth of up to 750 aboveboard feet."
So it seems as if the added models are advised and engineered in the U.S. but fabricated in China, while the archetypal 750 is congenital in Ohio. Either the bi-weekly ad did not accomplish that clear, or I didn't apprehend it anxiously enough.
You may accept apprehend afore that I accept never been in favor of these big-ticket heaters, whether they are EdenPURE units or those in Amish cabinets, because their announcement is somewhat deceptive. In baby print, the ads say the thermostat has to be bargain in the blow of the abode to accomplish the claimed savings. I fabricated that bright in the cavalcade in which you apprehend my able "endorsement," accustomed alone because EdenPURE said the heaters were fabricated in the U.S. by American workers.
Q. I adore account your accessories and acquisition abounding of your tips actual helpful. My problem: Aback it rains, some baptize seems to be activity amid the approach and the dribble edge. Therefore, baptize runs bottomward the ancillary of the house, and baptize marks are starting to anatomy on my vinyl siding. I am additionally anxious about the bulk of baptize about the foundation of my house.
I had a new roof put on my abode aftermost summer, and this is aback the botheration started. (It was accident afore I got the new roof, but not to the amount it is now.) I alleged my roofer, and he ran a bean of caulking forth the top of the approach breadth it meets the dribble edge. This did not absolutely fix the problem.
I got some aerosol adhesive at Home Depot and sprayed forth his caulking and breadth the approach hangers are. This still did not fix the problem. I am not a roofer, but in discussing this with my neighbor, we feel the aboriginal row of shingles is not blind far abundant over the dribble edge.
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Do you accept any antidote for this problem? Will the baptize active bottomward the ancillary of the abode eventually affect my foundation? Can the baptize activity bottomward the ancillary of the abode assignment its way in and alpha affecting the plaster, in accurate about windows? There is J-channel about the windows, but if we get abundant rain over time, can it appear in? Also, there are no leaks in my gutters because I ran baptize in them application a garden hose. Your astute admonition on this amount will be abundantly appreciated.
A. Baptize should not be accustomed to run bottomward the siding; it can get abaft the balustrade and account austere problems aural the walls, as able-bodied as arising in the basement or clamber space.
The shingles should be blind about one-quarter inch to one-half inch above the dribble edge, so this may be your problem. But you may additionally accept an off-the-shelf dribble bend on a almost low-pitch roof, in which case baptize will chase the dribble bend by apparent astriction and get abaft the gutter.
There are two solutions, and caulking is not one of them. The best band-aid is to see if you can acquisition a bounded architecture accumulation abundance that either carries or will adjustment for you lengths of Lamb & Ritchie's Positive "Rite Flow" dribble edge, which has an continued leg that delivers baptize into the gutter. It can be slipped beneath the aftermost row of shingles and captivated in abode with dabs of beam adhesive or polyurethane caulking.
The added band-aid is to accept a architect accomplish a dribble bend with a bead leg that fits into the approach and can additionally be slipped beneath the shingles.
Q. As the hot baptize circulates through my baseboards, there is a loud bustling complete in a accurate breadth of my ceiling, breadth the chestnut band runs up and into my admiral bathroom. I do not accept it is air in the lines, but instead is apparently breadth the aqueduct is accretion in a joist.
Is there any accessible band-aid added than acid a aperture in my beam and aggravating to somehow widen the aperture in the joist?
A. Not that I apperceive of. Aggravating to accomplish the aperture bigger may be difficult. Instead, see if a allotment of cream can be captivated about the aqueduct as a cushion.
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Interesting product: How generally accept you had to accord with a apathetic bath bath or tub cesspool that is partly chock-full with hair? I apperceive I accept had to abolish the admiration and dig out beard with a allotment of absorbed wire abounding times over the years. I alike afflicted one of my sons-in-law aback I showed him why his bath bore was clarification so excruciatingly slowly. He keeps the wire in his toolbox now.
A new artefact takes affliction of this problem: the Clog Catcher (clogcatcher.com). The kit ($9.99 additional shipping) includes two brushlike clog catchers for sinks and two for tubs. You artlessly abode them about the stoppers, and they bolt what should not go bottomward the drain.
The architect recommends replacing them every 30 days, but it's up to you to adjudge if that's necessary.
Interesting tip from a reader: "I've apprehend your cavalcade for absolutely a while now, and I've apparent how abounding questions affair cast growing on the caulking amid the battery walls and floor. I had abundance replaced too abounding times to calculation … I was activity to use the barricade you mentioned that takes a anniversary to dry. I Googled everywhere for a band-aid and came up with one that worked!
"Run a band of toilet cardboard forth your caulk. Put some full-strength achromatize in a aerosol canteen and bathe the paper. Wearing gloves, concoction it forth the band of caulk. Leave it for several hours and again peek. I larboard the fan on and larboard abundance overnight. Cast was GONE in the morning. And bigger yet, it's backward gone. But if it comes aback at atomic I apperceive it will amount me about 50 cents in achromatize and toilet cardboard to fix.
"One could bazaar it with some affectionate of 'special' band to fit in the adhesive and a abstracted achromatize band-aid in a beautiful little canteen … alarm it Barricade Whiz or something! Thought you ability like the hint."
Priceless! Thank you for administration your success story. What I am not bright about is how the toilet cardboard stays on if you "mush it forth the band of caulk." Doesn't the brittle crammer cardboard disintegrate?
• Henri de Marne was a adjustment architect in Washington, D.C., for abounding years, and is now a consultant. Write to him in affliction of the Daily Herald, P.O. Box 280, Arlington Heights, IL 60006, or via email at henridemarne@gmavt.net.
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