The Carter Challenge - Page 3

glatt · 10-06-2010, 09:18 AM

Ooh! That reminds me. I don't know if I mentioned this before, but my parents are building an addition on their house, and it includes a built in desk. The desk has radiant heating tubes in the writing surface, so on those cold New England days when you are surfing the web and your hand is getting cold using the mouse, the warm desk top has got you covered.

HungLikeJesus · 10-06-2010, 09:22 AM

That's a great idea. Does it use electricity or hot water from a boiler?

xoxoxoBruce · 10-06-2010, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by monster

You get to scoff the day you pay my heating bill.....

Why do we work? For money to provide food, shelter from cold/wet, and defense from saber toothed cats. These are primary priorities, everything else is secondary.

Oh wait, alcohol is secondary, and everything else tertiary.

Shawnee123 · 10-06-2010, 10:19 AM

We go to work to earn money to pay to live and to get back and forth to earn money to get back and forth to work to earn money to get back and forth...

glatt · 10-06-2010, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

That's a great idea. Does it use electricity or hot water from a boiler?

Hot water. The whole addition is radiant floor heating, so they just ran some loops through the desk.

classicman · 10-06-2010, 10:54 AM

VERY cool - err warm.

Pete Zicato · 10-06-2010, 11:10 AM

Speaking of which, I recommend they not put their computer on top of the desk.

glatt · 10-06-2010, 11:12 AM

radiant floor temperatures are low compared to radiators. A computer would be fine.

HungLikeJesus · 10-06-2010, 11:55 AM

I like that because I think localized heating is usually better and more efficient than heating a large space.

xoxoxoBruce · 10-06-2010, 01:31 PM

The user usually sits before, rather than over, the desktop, unless they are hand writing a letter or something. I'd rather have the heat under the desk, it will rise on it's own.

glatt · 10-06-2010, 03:19 PM

Oh, it's in the floor too. This is just a hand warmer.

morethanpretty · 10-06-2010, 05:51 PM

Still using A/C...

10-06-2010, 09:22 AM	#32
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10-06-2010, 10:19 AM	#34
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	We go to work to earn money to pay to live and to get back and forth to earn money to get back and forth to work to earn money to get back and forth... __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

10-06-2010, 10:54 AM	#36
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	VERY cool - err warm. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

10-06-2010, 11:10 AM	#37
Pete Zicato Turns out my CRS is a symptom of TMB. Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Chicago suburbs Posts: 2,916	Speaking of which, I recommend they not put their computer on top of the desk. __________________ Talk nerdy to me.

10-06-2010, 11:55 AM	#39
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	I like that because I think localized heating is usually better and more efficient than heating a large space. __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

10-06-2010, 09:18 AM	#31
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Ooh! That reminds me. I don't know if I mentioned this before, but my parents are building an addition on their house, and it includes a built in desk. The desk has radiant heating tubes in the writing surface, so on those cold New England days when you are surfing the web and your hand is getting cold using the mouse, the warm desk top has got you covered.

10-06-2010, 11:12 AM	#38
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	radiant floor temperatures are low compared to radiators. A computer would be fine.

10-06-2010, 01:31 PM	#40
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	The user usually sits before, rather than over, the desktop, unless they are hand writing a letter or something. I'd rather have the heat under the desk, it will rise on it's own. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

10-06-2010, 03:19 PM	#41
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Oh, it's in the floor too. This is just a hand warmer.

10-06-2010, 05:51 PM	#42
morethanpretty Thats "Miss Zipper Neck" to you. Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: little town (but not the littlest) in texas Posts: 2,957	Still using A/C... __________________ Addicts may suck dick for coke, but love came up with the idea to put a dick in there to begin with. -Jack O'Brien

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