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My basement floor is PEX in concrete, so yes I have compared them. No difference really. I would think that if you were doing PEX in concrete on a suspended 1st or 2nd floor, your joint spacing may need to be closer than the standard 16" - or larger joist members. Review with your structural...

I used WarmBoard-S in my house construction. Not the OSB version. 7 layer plywood, 1 1/8" thick. I have both tile and hardwood as flooring over the top depending on what room. It has been up and running for 18 years.

You might want a temperature sensor w/ thermostat directly under the wood. Most glues do not like long term exposure over 100F. We have sensors in our floors (house) that limit the temperature to 95F under areas where there is hardwood flooring above the PEX. We use an on-demand tankless DHW...

No auto manufacture wants to only sell many of the "base level" vehicle. Profit is made in the fully optioned models. Luckily the G wagons have not changed much over the years, unless you are making more than a fleeting glance, a 2000 model year doesn't look a great deal different than a 2023...

ND millionaires per capita: 6.00% (19,662 households) closest dealer: Illinois (Chicago): 6.14% (300,142 households) Colorado (Denver): 6.47% (143,564 households) Pure numbers of persons available to buy such a vehicle.... Most people that are driving a...

Nobody lives in the middle...

-40C is cold. The HRV/ERV efficiency is not going to be very good. The exchanger core will freeze up due to the moist inside air exchanged with the outdoor cold air and will need to run a defrost cycle. Guessing it will be something like 23C interior air out and "recovered" air "in" will be...

Yeah, I believe it is the same.

excellent build. I've been on the lookout for a T100 for a few years, prices went nuts during covid, but are coming down a bit now it seems.

Well maybe after 2041...

The automotive segment of the global industrials is like the wild west out there currently with all the new players tossing a hat in. It will be interesting to see where the cards fall in the next 10 to 20 years. Place your bets...is a common term we use at work, when quoting "widget business"...

While Nissan is the largest share holder of Mitsubishi at 34%, there are a lot of other institutions that own them as well. Sounds like the RNM alliance isn't playing so well together lately.

Oh, then it was a 15hp adder... 135 hp I believe.

Turbo added about 25hp

sounds fun, have not been to the Yucatan in probably 20 years.

Yeah, software will really drive the life of the vehicle shorter in my opinion. I've heard OEs discussing basically getting away from key fobs and using only your phone to unlock and start the vehicle. No thanks.

I missed documenting an important factor. The OE specs are generally 99% @ end of life. Depending on the OE it could be anywhere from 150K to 300K miles. So in USA average miles driven per year are 13.5K, so a lifetime for the vehicle is considered 11 to 22 years. There is a reason that...

assume you mean this: "...more moving parts means more to wear and/or fail" is a non sequitur. This is entirely not a true statement. For instance... nothing is 100% reliable Systems in a transmission from you example above. In modern days components making up a transmission would be...

yes and no. Can easily be tooling design, manufacturing cell design, error proofing etc... I've seen a lot of root causes in over 30 years as an automotive tier 1 quality & reliability professional.

You have some good arguments here. One point missed is that an increased parts count makes for more opportunities for manufacturing errors whether it is in the making of the individual component(s) or in the assembly of the multiple components.