We have two daikin 15k high walls and they have worked great. We also have a 24k Samsung that has been working great. Samsungs suck in reliability and service/parts so I’d steer away, but it was free leftover for a job so it went in our shop.

That said, when it’s below 20 or so we run our wood stove. Based on the submittal sheet they should heat our place sufficiently down to about -10f, they just won’t be efficient while doing it.

Better, less clickbaity source

https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/pesticide-tainted-cannabis-pulled-from-shelves-of-five-vermont-stores/Content?oid=37508241

This is not accurate. Most units auto shutdown at some temp below zero to avoid damaging the compressor. The few units that will not do this generally have resistive backup to help keep the low side pressures within an acceptable range.

The shutdown temps range from -5 to -30f depending on make, model and refrigerant. Most are in the -15 to -25 range. Fortunately we’re not at those temps until tomorrow morning for a few hours.

I agree with your point. I also think the hotel/motel owners are taking far more advantage of this terrible situation than the homeless themselves... A lot of these owners are making HUGE profits from these voucher programs and they do not re-invest any of those profits back into their hotels/motels to improve the living conditions of their tenants. The owners have little to no oversight of their operations by the State, and the conditions in most of these motels are deplorable and unsafe. The towns are powerless to impose any penalties against these apparent slumlords and, so far, the State seems unwilling to provide the framework for any oversight or accountability... The volume of homeless wouldn't be as much of an issue if there was better implementation of the help we are trying to provide.

It's happening in Vermont, so it's relative for the sub

That can work both ways 😏 rawhide

Rich people gotta go or play along. Make snow birds claim their main residency as VT to avoid getting slapped with a large tax (which would help fund public housing projects). Ban huge companies that are hoarding properties from operating in VT unless the business identifies VT as the state that they’re based out of. Tax the energy companies that spike the price of oil/gas in the winter. Create more public transport (buses, trains, and even sidewalks) so Vermonters don’t need to rely on a car. We have possibilities.

Very cool picture friend 😎 thanks for sharing.

This website is leading in its wording. "A startling discovery" as a pretty glaring example. Just gimme facts and let me do my own pearl clutching

Disgusting behavior by management. Hopefully this information spreads to potential candidates so they know what kind of people they’d end up working for.

Amen 🙏

Anyone else annoyed by the phrase "low wind chill"? Seems like it should be a high wind chill. This is the stuff that keeps me up at night.

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That's right - there are parents that need punching!

While I agree that this is a whole-wide country problem in the past couples of years, I can state that as an educator Vermont has fallen prey to their own progressive ideals, mixed with the inability from the state to not be able to do anything when a parent goes "There is nothing wrong with my kid".

It's great to find if there are solutions to a problem when a kid is acting out and misbehaving, but people don't understand that sometimes a kid is just plain rotten (probably because of their parents) and that there needs to be consequences for that. If we don't teach consequences, we're only pushing kids through under the false ideal that something else is always to blame (the teacher, their emotions, another kid, the school, etc) instead of owning up to their faults and finding solutions within themselves to fix.

Case in point with the alteration at the basketball game. Instead of a parent simply going "it's okay, my kid just needs more practice/they're trying their best", they are blaming xyz reasoning on something/someone else. Combine that with the politics going on in our country right now, and you got the perfect storm.

That’s a great way to get mold in your basement

I’m a honestly surprised they want their jobs back with the company. Normally when what kind of bridge is burned you don’t try to form another one, yeah?

You should do a post in a couple months following up; I've also got an 1830s home that's heated with water pipes in baseboards and the oil fired water furnace is just tearing through our supply of oil. Really need to change it at some point

Don't let a previous poster see this. They'll think of all the apartments you could fit in that barn

Do you have actual evidence to back this suspicion, or are you speculating?

Also, I get what you're saying, but if you're a homeless person, you go anywhere you can to get of the cold. That seems like a needlessly accusatory way to think about what literally anyone would and should do facing that situation.

edit: Upon further reflection, I actually don't get what you're saying. What does it even mean for someone without a home to not be a Vermonter? If a homeless person moves to Vermont, they're Vermonters now. That's how being American works; there's no immigration policy at state borders. It's not taking advantage of anything to move to another state where you might not die of exposure - it's literally each of our birthright as Americans to move freely between states.

So what would the census accomplish? How would you even do it? What does it mean for a person with no home to be an out of stater, when all their earthly belongings are here? Are you going to ask them for a bill to prove their residency in Vermont or something?

>It's not spam. It is a relevant topic in many states and I thought I'd enter the dialog.

A public school system, in my opinion, has the following characteristics:

1. Is open to all comers and free of charge at the door (what's needed is covered from elsewhere just as is required of public schools today);
2. Provides an opportunity for a quality education, and
3. Operates in a public and transparent method much as public bodies do today.

And yeah, that "elsewhere" most likely means government collected taxes.

You'll be fine

It’s not specific to Vermont. Maybe the right place for it is in an education sub? Unlike MSM, Reddit is divided into specific topics.

Yeah i think the table-flipping Jesus would have a word or two for the christian conservatives of today. we would live in an almost utopia if both Americans in general and Christians lived up to the mythology they are raised on.