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    Air exchanger - cold air

    Our air exchanger is bringing in cold air into the house - abour 12°C when its on exchagne and 16°C whne its on filter (average temp in hte house is 20-22°C) - even though there is suppose to be a heat recovery system. The unit is in the basment which is not heated and is usually at 12°. I've...
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    cold floors and basement

    Good morning, Our house has a full basement - very large one, about 1800sqft. The house consists of a main floor where we do most of our living. UP stairs there are two bedrooms and an office loft that over looks the "great room". We heat the main part of the house with a fireplce insert and...
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    someone moved my beams!!

    Thanks Inspector D. DriCore folks told us that we could put walls on top of the dricore, but I'm sure they did not mean load bearing walls. I'm going to have the posts in the 2 x 4 moved back (with temporay supports put in place first. Any other suggestions or tips? I'll let you know how...
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    someone moved my beams!!

    Thanks glennjanie. I was realy cocnred abut the safety. I guess as long as we don't move beams again we're safe. When we finish the basements I'll make sure that they are not moved again!!! So the post within the 2 x 4 is okay?
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    someone moved my beams!!

    I posted some picutres in my gallery of the results of the beams being moved, Any thing I can do to rectify it? Damage done? Any worreis about safety? All comments appreciated.
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    someone moved my beams!!

    Tool guy, the posts are the metal adjutable support posts and they did put them back, except for the posts that they sandwiched between the 2 x 4's. Those posts are not quite where they were oringally. So there's nothing to be done about the "offness" of the house now. Since I don't know...
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    someone moved my beams!!

    Thanks! When I get the pics, should I post them in this thread or put up a new one? (new here)
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    someone moved my beams!!

    First time here and am working on little knowledge. Our house is 9 years old. We have a big open basement and are slowly starting to finish it. Recently we had dri core flooring installed and the exterior walls framed up. During the installation of the flooring, the fellows moved the support...
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