Dackle Shephard

A Teeter Hang Ups inversion table is the only thing that allows my wife to walk upright. She has degenerative disk disease and due to this inversion table she has avoided another surgery. Of course you should talk to your doctor first but this has been a miracle for Heather and makes sense using gravity oppositely to realign your spine.

Thank you Big Al. Our unfinished basement is full on a slope with a walk out. The bottom of the basement window that I wanted to put the exhaust through is 7' above the basement concrete floor and about 6" above the ground outside. Our cats name is Chance as I found him by chance by my work when the mother feral cat ran away with all of her other kittens. Chance just stayed there and meowed and let me pick him up. His eye was badly infected so after the vet visit that day we gave him the antibiotics daily and had to put drops in his eye every 3 hours for 2 weeks. Either way, we and our vet did the best we could do but we couldn't save his eye and it had to be removed to avoid future cancer and his eye lid was sowed shut. He didn't seem to notice as he played like a normal kitten. It just took him a while to learn how hard to jump up on beds and chairs etc.

I live in a 2 floor house in N.J. with a basement and was hoping to be able to heat the basement with this RMH at least enough to keep our old cat warm and happy as he can no longer stay upstairs unattended since he is old and can't hold his bladder. I was also hoping that it would help heat our first floors floor somewhat to help reduce our electric bills. I am now having second thoughts if I have to raise the exhaust stack above our roof. Thank you for the information as I would have wasted the nice 8" SS pipe that I acquired. If I go forward I will find 8" piping for the exhaust and clay somewhere to make cob around the exhaust and mortar the multiple layers of brick on top of that for more mass. Thanks again.

I am considering building a RMH in my basement and have a nice stainless steel 55 gallon drum and an 8" SS pipe that I am considering using as the heat riser that will be insulated inside a 12" heavy gauge steel tube. I have access to a lot of bricks and understand from reading all of the postings that the the first 5' or so of the exhaust will be very hot so I will use the appropriate pipe for that and incase it with cob (I am in N.J. and I think I found clay under a huge uprooted tree that would be enough to mix with sand to create cob to cover that 5' of pipe) My question is after that 5' can I not use pipe at all and use just the bricks mortared together to create a turn around Chanel with the same cross sectional area a as the 8" pipe? At the 90" bend, I will have a sealed removable 3' by 3' stone for clean out purposes.The exhaust through my above basement window will have to be experimented with to have an appropriate draft. Will this work enough to be a good mass?