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Adsos Letter

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20. Very nice looking home!

Reply to GreenPartyVoter (Original post)

Sat Dec 7, 2013, 01:40 PM

Dec 2013

I got nuthin' regarding your condensation problem, but I do have a question about the maple floor shown in the photos in your journal...

It appears to be a pre-finished floor. Who manufactured it? It's lovely!

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Condensation running down my range vent into my microwave in cold weather? (And cracks in ceiling) [View all] GreenPartyVoter Dec 2013 OP

My dear GreenPartyVoter... CaliforniaPeggy Dec 2013 #1

Thanks, Peggy! I have a sinking feeling that the blown-in insulation has all gotten damp with GreenPartyVoter Dec 2013 #2

My guess would be warm moist air hitting a cold vent pipe. Hassin Bin Sober Dec 2013 #3

That's what we think too.The vent is GreenPartyVoter Dec 2013 #5

The section exposed in the attic - can you wrap that with insulation? Hassin Bin Sober Dec 2013 #7

Thank you. :^) We are definitely going to try to wrap the parts we can reach, and I want to GreenPartyVoter Dec 2013 #8

I'm a fanatic about bath fans. Hassin Bin Sober Dec 2013 #11

Well, the good news on the cracks jeff47 Dec 2013 #4

Thanks, Jeff. I tried explaining to Hassin Bin Sober about the cracks (mini canyons, really) GreenPartyVoter Dec 2013 #6

It looks like the cracks are still a heat expansion issue jeff47 Dec 2013 #16

Thanks! I will go up to the attic this weekend and poke around. Is the duct tape the same as the GreenPartyVoter Dec 2013 #18

It's similar enough tape. jeff47 Dec 2013 #19

I wonder if a re-paint with a good quality low permeability primer would... Hassin Bin Sober Dec 2013 #9

Supposedly the house needs to breathe??? But I would just as soon not have GreenPartyVoter Dec 2013 #10

You've got two envelopes that need to breathe ..... Hassin Bin Sober Dec 2013 #12

Yikes! $60K?! That would give me a heart attack! GreenPartyVoter Dec 2013 #14

I wonder if the decking in the attic is giving you less margin for error ... Hassin Bin Sober Dec 2013 #13

I do wonder about it myself. I need the decking because I am GreenPartyVoter Dec 2013 #15

Probably not jeff47 Dec 2013 #17

Very nice looking home! Adsos Letter Dec 2013 #20

Thanks! Got it at Home Depot or Lowes. It's Bruce, and was very cheap, but there were GreenPartyVoter Dec 2013 #21

The last time I ran into that problem Wash. state Desk Jet Dec 2013 #22