Fight Chaos - the Fix-It Blog

It's been a while since my last post. Work has been busy - lots of travel. Carving out an hour a day for physical fitness. Yada yada yad...

Now that summer is just about here - I've been working on fine tuning my summer dehumidification as part of my indoor air quality projec...

A little while ago I was standing in my basement looking at all the old Nutone Intercom parts that I had removed from the house. When we mov...

I have a good number of sensors that have been running in my house for almost a year - 7 of the 2852-222 Water Leak Sensors, 5 of the 2845-2...

I've been upgrading my pool pump system with a variable speed motor from Emerson / Nidec / US Motors - the 3HP Ecotech EZ motor. I'v...

Now that the pump is assembled with the new Ecotech EZ variable speed motor , it was time to get at the piping upgrades to help improve the ...

I've been working towards the goal of reducing my electricity bill by 33% - and I'm actually getting there. One of the largest loads...

It's been a while since my last post - this spring has been exceptionally busy with the basement insulation project , basement floor sla...

Our 25 year old house has (had) a concrete floor in the basement utility room that was a bit more than rough. A spiderweb of hairline cracks...