I’ve just learned the nuances of the stove and when we need to add wood to keep it steady. We also have an old house (190 years old) that was designed before electric heat so the floor plan is conducive to wood stove as a heat source.

Once every 2 hours I add wood during the day and can keep a clean burn & steady temps. At 11pm I’ll load up the firebox & reduce the air intake to a slower burn.

When I get up at 5am the house will be 60° downstairs & 66° upstairs where the bedrooms are.

Now, it’ll be different with the -45° windchill that’s coming this weekend, but this plan works down to 0°. At lower temps I load the box at 11pm & burn it like I do during the day then get up at 2am & 5am to repeat.

Well apparently they were still going on in 2021.

>Data from the state Judicial Branch shows that the filings climbed from 3,908 in 2021 to 4,965 last year.

CBD is legal nationwide. 0 risk.

From a strictly CS perspective, UMO is probably going to be the better choice. A bigger school will mean more resources and better internship opportunities.

If you're worried about this...

>my high school had roughly 1,000 students and even that could be overwhelming at times for my introverted self

...keep in mind that sometimes being at a larger school can, somewhat counterintuitively, mean more anonymity. A bigger student body may give you greater space to just find your niche and do your own thing than a smaller one where everybody is more likely to know each other. Kind of like how it's easier to live anonymously in a big city than in a small town.

What sort of work are you looking to do after you graduate? Are you planning on going into programming/software engineering side of things or into infrastructure (managing networks, servers, etc.)?

How do you keep your wood stove at a constant heat? When I was growing up my dad either had it at hotter than the surface of the sun, or get another blanket because I’m staying in bed.

Motha fukers are all freezin i run a pellet stove all year my house never goes below 78 only burn 3 ton a year

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Sort of...I signed up for a community solar project, so 3/4 of my bill hasn't invoiced out yet. I've paid for 623 KWH of the 2165 KWH I used...I'm sure it will be high, but the savings from the solar farm should help stifle that charge.

Shot up because they were practically blocked for 2020/2021…not sure why this is news.

If you think Washington County has the capacity to take over code enforcement you must never have been there. In reality land use regulation would fall to a state agency named LURC, and trust me, no one likes LURC. There would be no "code enforcement" because Maine lacks a statewide building code so without a municipal government there would be no code to enforce.

We're discussing a municipality that runs on the Town Meeting/ Selectmen form of government, which is essentially pure Athenian democracy (including public debate of ordinances and the town budget by the citizenry in open meeting) and they elect a handful of people to sign checks.

The silver lining here is that evictions are still lower than in 2019 and every year in the chart before 2019 except for 2009. I don't think we've seen the bottom fall out yet, however. Mainers are resilient and are scraping by but at some point something has to give.

We keep our oil-burning boiler thermos at 60, but a wood stove and heat pump augment the whole house to 65-70.

There’s other factors, like hidden drafts or an unheated basement/slab, that can make you chilled to the bone despite having the temp over 60. We now heat our basement and I went around and put gaskets and plugs in all the external outlets. Super cozy now.

This is pretty typical zoomer humor. It's mildly funny at first but gets really old and annoying really fast.

Link for those who need help getting over a paywall

Non pay wall here: https://archive.md/9bUmr

That's not bad at all. Our house is around ~1800sq ft and we also use around 400-500 gallons of propane a year (combination boiler, gas range, and gas fireplace). I'm looking to add an R32 heat pump to our open first floor because we have a slightly oversized solar array. Have you received your January 2023 CMP bill yet with the 50% supply-side increase?

What part of Maine? A bacteria test with count is only $30 and can easily be done by you. With a very low hit like that it is almost always sampling error. If you do retake the test make sure to remove your aerator and sanitize the faucet with bleach before collecting the sample.

Unless you're glazing everything in marble and mahogany, and the house is completely net zero, I would say that is price gouging. You would need a lot of expensive fixtures, and top of the line building materials, architects landscaping etc. That company doing 210-240 sounds like a steal in this market.

The heat pump runs anytime it’s above 20 degrees. Below 20 it uses a propane forced hot air through the same ducting. I burn about 500 gallons of propane per year and my average electric bill in the winter is around $350. Overall I spend the same to heat / cool my 2600 sq foot house as I did using an oil fired baseboard system in my old 1200 sq foot house. Also worth noting my old house has fiberglass insulation and my new home has closed cell spray foam.

Yeah, it’s fully ducted heat pump with a propane forced hot air backup.

No, it’s a heat pump, but instead of having heads all over the house, it goes through a ducting system with a blower. Basically turns a heat pump into a forced hot air hvac system. Also acts as whole house AC in the summer.

Vip quoted $800 for both front wheel bearings. Asked my dad if he could do it. $250.

No.

I looked at lots a few places around Portland once for curiosity and it was really not worth it. Unless you buy a bigger lot to develop and make a profit of it.

A carpenter friend said if you wanna build your own, it was better to get a house in shambles and doze it, and rebuild. At least you would have the foundation. but that was a few years ago. Now even crack houses are going for 250k+

Doesn't UMO have a literal supercomputer on campus?