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RE: exceptions

I have worked with many experienced builders
over the years.

One gentleman, whom I called for assistance after
a forest fire out here knocked-out my home
and equipment... when just going into the colder time
of the year-- volunteered all the help I could use.

I drew up my plans for a full basement new home on an
8 X 11 inch piece of paper, only describing major dimensions
and locations of doorways, room dimensions, etc. It was to
scale, but it needed no additional calculations or
drawings to design-in things like door jams, wall
thicknesses, and etc. The man did it all in his head...

I designed a cathedral ceiling for the living-room/kitchen
area in order to get excellent sound in the whole area
from my audio system. The ceiling peak descended to a
deliberately designed different wall height and ceiling
slope for each side. Asymmetrical on purpose- eliminate
unwanted resonance.

He simply picked up his tools, held a short conference
for his 2 helpers and proceeded to build the entire
full-basement home-- on a hill that imposed differing
levels along each wall.

Elevations needed for HVAC, water and sewer all
matched-up perfectly.

Impressed by my home-builder's genius, I did the
entire electrical system using the same simple approach,
and I installed all of it, from out to the utility pole's
breaker boxes, to all the inside systems.

I had used 4-ought underground wire, which I buried in
heavy-wall PVC water pipe. The smallest
wiring in the house is 12ga. A lot of 10ga. was used.

Why all that, when the utility pole has only 50 amp breakers
that have never tripped? Reason? I wanted performance.

I got it. Turn-on anything you like in the home, and nothing
creates a spike, and nothing in lighting dims when a
motor kicks-in somewhere. The place is an electrical joy
to live with-- it is all flawless. A Gen-Set input
system is also designed into it-- for when our society
finally loses it-- and the National Power Grid starts blinking.

All those oversized wires did something else-- they cut the
power bill.

I know it's hard for overtrained and over-educated people to
understand, but if you will build things-- anything that you want
to work very well over many years, with forethought of what YOU
wanted it to do, then you had to break or exceed a few rules....

ALL of the lighting is Incandescent. WHY? LED lighting is a
sick, negative energy, worse even than flourescent!

Incandescents feel good and allow the body and mind to work
normally...

How to keep your power bill low using them? (1) use efficient
reflectors and light-gathering lamp fixtures-- have maximum light
conduction and placement. (2) Use a larger bulb instead of 2
or 3 smaller ones. The smaller wattage bulbs give you less light
per watt. Make use of Halogens where desired.

Incandescents are the healthy way to interior lighting, so
engineer everything to get the most out of THOSE.

-Dennis-



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