Sounds like you have it solved. Have you thought about permanently attaching the outer door frame and hinging the center section of the door along the raised panel seam?
My experience with GE/Rheem gas water heaters is that they are crap.
I have had 3 of them, with 12 year warrantees, fail within 4 years of installation.
Don't forget to reinforce the strike plate or the best lock won't do squat.
Also, have you considered putting plexiglas over the entire window portion of the door and screwing it in?
Why not just do a motion sensing light?
I have one that is dim and lights to full brightness as you approach it.
I think it's a bigger deterent than a light alone.
Two things I really do not cut corners with in my house are electricity and gas.
Bad things happen when they fail.
As an aside, when I was a new homeowner i hired an electrician and didn't have him pull a permit to save a few bucks (this was 1991).
He agreed to replace the whole breaker...
Sorry I twisted your undies all up. If you read my post I stated that an "infrared heater pointed at you may work".
He didn't ask how to heat the whole shop, if I read the original post correctly he was asking about staying warm in a poorly insulated shop.
My experience with infrared...
I vaguely remember a thread, maybe not on here where a guy built a frame out of treaded or soldered pipe large enough to enclose his car and or work area and hung canvas or heavier duty material on the frame.
It was all disasembleable? and could be taken with him. Even if you did something...
No automatic drain. I have to manually drain it to flush it. I'm going to check every vent and radiator shut off valve for signs of leaking.
There is a main steam valve in basement. I'm going to take a close look at that.
Thanks.
I have a gas fired steam boiler (1 pipe) that I used to manually fill once every 3-4 days.
This season I am filling it every day or every other day. Low water shut-off is turning it off and I am waking to cold house :mad:.
No water on floor around boiler or obvious leaks.
I can get all the...
Strap enough of the cheapest 50 lbs bag of whatever you can find on the trailer and toss them when you get where you're going.
Or go to Home Depot, buy 1000 lbs of whatever in Idaho and return it to a Home Depot at the other end of your trip.
Its my intention to build a teardrop from scratch and I have been ruminating on the self contained heating system. Propane seems to be the answer but the CO2 worries me.
A battery powered detector is definitely on the list.
I am considering a Little Buddy heater but prefer something that I...