Originally Posted By: Rafael This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
thanks everyone
this is 1900sqft home in Ceres ,Ca about 10 miles west of Modesto,Ca
the home of the imfamous Scott Peterson, to give you an idea. 1977
custom home . Guy passed away about a year ago and really liked adding stuff like this to the home . daughter owns it now and selling .not a work in progress as far as i know. what is a solar collecter used for and how does it work anyway ?any help be appreciated. house was selling for $500,000 / yep Ca prices your standard price range is between $400 to $700,00 for not much. have a good day
Originally Posted By: dedwards This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
#1 is a solar panel as others have said. Question the wisdom of putting it over the patio cover but I can’t see it from my house.
#2 is a whole house fan. Never seen one in a crawl space. That is a new one on me. Normally you find it located in the attic with the motor activated louvers in the ceiling (normally in a central location like a hallway). Used to be very popular before AC. All you had to do was crack all the windows, crank on the fan and it would pull outside air in drawing all the hot stale air inside the house up into the attic, then out through gable vents or roof vents, cooling off the attic at the same time. Aren't worth a flip in humid areas cause it pulls moist outside air into the home but worked great in spring and fall or arid areas. Either that or they are building a hover craft in the crawl and plan to meet the mother ship soon.
Originally Posted By: jrupert This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Image #1 is a solar water heater, the round top section is the actual water heater, I installed many of these in Arizona years ago, no idea what image #2 is with out more info
Originally Posted By: rsmith5 This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Picture #1 is a solar water heater.
Picture#2 - not sure what this fans function but a contractor would be sued installing a positve air radon mitigation system,[could leak at the joints and possibly raise levels in the living space], probaply a bad idea for whole house fan for the same reason.
