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Installing Skylight, Acrylic Block Panels and Hydro-Air System for Cooling
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" And we're back at the other end of the recreation room now and remember this is almost a sixty foot space. And we've just completed putting in the Odeo roof window this is not a roof window that has a wood -- and one of the great things about it is it comes with a lifetime warranty. The glass is double insulated glass seven eighths inch thick. Inside is argon gas on the outside is tempered glass on the inside it's low. And what I really like about this particular windows it comes with a groove on the inside to that you can fit the drywall right into it you get a very clean finish but now let's look at another interesting product. Call pat -- Good morning the size -- is a wall system that's called highlight right correct correct it's -- highlight quote walkway. Acrylic panels and for all the world it looks like glass floor. But it becomes almost protective bubble -- going to take some of this home for the kids -- but the the look of it is really terrific. You have been real successful with that we have different patterns we have what we call a wave pattern -- we have other colors as well yeah. As so you can get it clear you can get it to look like real glass block right exactly like it but it's not totally transparent does this is after all the partition between. Aid powder room half bathroom exactly it up here. Exactly we have we have another one too. After you want more obscurity we have a frosted one puts on one half of the block is frosted under the panels come in four by eight sheets sword. There are ordered to your dimension you go ahead and call them and we we build a simple panel exactly the dimension that you're looking there was basically a custom. Product how do you install it. What we have in this case is we have a flat cap a base to -- that will install aluminum. Yes correct and you did you put that down in the -- yes well we -- beyond cutback in this particular application we cut it into eight inch pieces and we're following a radius were put in individual panels. Interest. Pieces that form the radius are all these all these individual one wide panels. So called panels are basically all attached together using the same aluminum. Plates right that's it's a tram that we have to finish off the panels that we also can use it for installing panels together okay. So the plumbing in the half bath has already been cut into the floor area toilet in the lavatory at the other end now let's talk to Bob small from my plumber who's. Doing the work here there's a lot of lot of cutting and a lot of us of messing around in order to get a little bathroom on the third floor like this isn't about listeners -- so we've got the -- PVC. Connections this is the waste from the new bathroom into the existing pipe and then of course. Our vent. Connects to the old cast iron vent that we've left in place and what are you up to over here. Over here on this thing hot and cold water supply the bathroom in the kitchen sink little -- okay. The high lite acrylic wall is complete we'll just have to tied into the ceiling later."
" Israel is here from cold minister is it called masters temperature control so you're HVC experts and you're gonna help us. Cool down in the summertime what is a volume of probably. Which huge appeared that who went to a four tons of of -- that's a lot of cool that's sixteen. Hundred cubic feet per minute what does that translate to in BTUs 40048012. So when we talked about. Putting a C units into a big loft open space like this how do you --"
" Well we had to. Come up with a way to -- you some of the existing system so we're putting what's called area Hydro air system which is using the existing boiler. And we have an air handler. But there that's that thing up an animal -- won't that that's big won't that make a racket up there well we designed the equipment. To. Use only. 800 feet per minute and that'll be quiet -- guys are finishing hanging the unit right now doesn't say anywhere up the support to hear when hanging the unit from the front rafters up there right we've hung it actually I Slater's -- so that not to transmit vibrations of the buildings as -- we are moving a lot of air here. OK that. The series works in conjunction with the boiler for -- heat and then there's a direct expansion coil. Which will be put in there right in line -- that and that works in conjunction with the outdoor condenser."
" Which is how you're gonna get the cool air correct to remove the heat you're using freon that's correct. And it that way that works is that you're circulating the freon and absorbing the heat from the space appear right -- taking the freon to the outside to the outside and dissipating it dissipating it right condenser. Right all right well thanks Myron and of course all that cool air we just go right up through the roof unless we have a real good insulation job and that's what we're doing here is our thirty. Fiberglass bats from Owens Corning."