That was a 1 and done with each of my kids. They loved it but never really liked going back after the first or second Time.

Second that- never worth trying to fight it, you have to go back where you got the ticket- just pay and forget about it.

So me lol unfortunately I’m saving my tickets for family

Go to Dorney or Knobels if you want something extremely affordable unfortunately Hershey is super expensive for a family coming from a season pass holder

I do see where you're coming from and also delved in Manual J calcs. Aerospace engineer and work in utility scale power production so I've had a fair share of energy modeling done. You're also right that the basement location will start getting colder and pull heat from the floor above to keep heating itself.

If we do end up using rockwool comfortbatt and insulating in the joist cavity, we might avoid that energy pull from the floors.

My main reason is to eliminate a propane consuming thankless heater provided by the builder. The Navien 240A2 has an estimate of 450ish $/year assuming 2.4$/gal of propane. The electric bill on the HPWH is est to be at 100-150$/year.

If we live in this home for 5+years then that is a lot of savings. Now that you mention the added bonus of placing it in a warmer location, I'm tempted to place it in the garage but the install charges would be high and the winter will make that garage way more colder than the basement.

This is a good start for anyone more interested in the deep research on the topic

https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog/will-a-heat-pump-water-heater-freeze-your-basement/

If you have 200 amp service in your house, the wiring to your house is at least sufficient for household electrical needs for the foreseeable future. However you may want more discrete circuits in your house than your panel currently holds or you might want to wire in a bunch of new circuits to a location far away from your electrical box, and then it is often worth your while to put in a sub-panel. Presumably if you have 200 amp service you likely have a decent sized electrical box. And even once all of the slots are full, you can get away with a few breaker slots being doubled up. But eventually there comes a point where the box is too crowded to safely work in it.

For instance when I moved into my new house, I wanted to set up a small wood and metal workshop in my garage. My garage is on the opposite side of my house from my main electrical panel so it was worth it to me to hire an electrician to install a subpanel in my garage so that I'm only running one large electrical circuit all the way across the house and through a foundation wall rather than a dozen smaller ones.

Similarly when I moved in, I had 100 amp service to my house and the main panel was both small and completely full. 100 amps would cover my immediate needs but I did want more circuits in the main house. So I could have gotten away with installing yet another sub-panel near the main panel. But I had no headroom for doing things that I anticipate will likely happen in the future (switching to a heat pump for heating and hot water, I can't imagine that my next car won't be electric, and likely other unknown uses). Thus I opted to just increase my service line to 200A and replace the original small panel (that likely was installed when the house was built in the 1940s) with a much larger panel.

I would go to Dutch Wonderland or Knobles instead. Hersheypark has some kid's rides but the last time we were there the rides were more for kids a little older. If you were a friend coming into town we would take you to one of those two.

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Oh I’d be flattered if the empathy concern was for Gays like me. It’s not. They don’t want their kids feeling sorry for non-white Americans who were beaten and denied equal access by their grand parents and how they voted.

Yeah! Just keep licking those boots kids!

How dare the school teach my child that queers people and blacks people are people

Seems like textbook retaliation to me

Attention attention America this is your new Mom and she says…

No. No you don’t have to have compassion and you don’t have to have empathy.

——- weeks and years later ——

Person A: Help. Help me. I’ve been robbed. Person B: Hmm I wonder what that’s like being robbed. Oh well. Person C: I think they’re bleeding. Person B: So. They should do something about it.

IF THERE ARE ANY TEENS LOOKING YOUR PARENTS HAVE TURNED INTO NAZI’s.

I don’t think I am outside the letter of the law. I clearly said in my post that I am remorseful and what I did was dangerous and stupid. I am simply asking what to expect and what the normal procedure is- and what others have experienced.

My brother lived in West Reading for awhile it’s nice but is gentrified.

They could have put a lot of mentally disabled people to work as cleanup crews instead of paying for those damn things. It irritates me they automated a job when they could pay a person to do the same thing. A person who could use a job that needs minimal skill and would benefit immensely from the independence it would give them.

While I'm from north-of-the-mountain (thus considering all of Pottsville a hated rival), he'll be fine. Depending on what part of town he's in, there'll be plenty of shopping, and should be enough to do nearby that he can stay entertained. In the coming years, I think that this might prove useful to the seniors who are in a position to take classes there:

https://www.alvernia.edu/Pottsville

Good luck!

I’m familiar with what a TA is. Saying “kids” is both a euphemism for their naïveté and an acknowledgement that I’m an old guy. Regardless, the point stands. You know they get an education and health insurance along with their pay. And they are not trained teachers. What do they think should happen when they walk out of work? In PA especially. I mean get real. Looks like some profs will need to grade their own papers for a while I guess

The end goal is to destroy public education. Make no mistake. This is driven by greed, first and foremost. The people leading it are useful idiots at best. Toxic and vicious idiots with a lot of money propping them up. Remember Betsy DeVos? This is her wet dream.

Just pay the fine and move on with your life.

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That’s right! I used to rent an apartment in Shillington and loved our neighborhood

For someone older it should be ok. The population in these parts, even more so than the rest of America, is old. It’s hard to find decent work so young people don’t have much of a choice other than deal with it or leave. It’s a little nicer than places like Shamokin or Sunbury. I lived in Upper Dauphin for a few years I liked it much better. That’s more of a rural area though.

Show this to people who say we need less regulations and laws.

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They are awesome to see making a massive comeback, and are HUGE birds. like over a foot more wingspan then turkey vultures! So cool

Downtown Reading doesn’t seem bad to me, it’s some of the surrounding neighborhoods that can be sketchy.