Parts for car recovery and other

So, we've got this super spiffy radiant heating system in the house that we blogged a ton about..mostly me bitching about how looooooong it took to do the staple up part. Its worked fine so far but with it dipping down into the high 30's at night I'd wake up at 6:30am and...the house would be cold! Like 64 deg F in the front part of the house when the thermostats were set to 72....not good as this front part of the house is where the babies hang during the nanny share.... Back again I go to the phone and the nice guys at NRT said basically, DUH! you're only running 1/3 of the system that's designed to be run as a whole so no wonder it can't keep up. But I said ya but its a nice and toasty 68 in the basement and the slab loops arent even on! They said, 'Double Duh, you're heating the basement with the same loops that youre trying to heat the main part of the house with!' Whats been super great is that in all the areas that are insulated the floor is super toasty warm feeling. When we sit on our butts in the baby room its nice and toasty. Same with the hallway and the bathroom where the floors were always colder. We'll have to buy another 4 bags of insul at least to finish the job but I'm trying to put that off as in the areas left to do we need to run plumbing and wiring and we don't want to have to yank it all down or wrestle with it when we're doing that.

It's great that at least ONE of the house problems you guys have encountered could be "relatively" simply and cheaply solved! I will keep my fingers and toes crossed that this type of good luck lasts until you three can sit warmly on the floor --- ANY floor --- of your completed dream house! (I do expect, however, to be suffering from severe digit cramping by springtime!). Anyway, congrats on making the necessary parts of the house toasty warm. Hope you had a good turkey day too. ---auntie Sue

Source: Chez Neumansky, part deux