I love this thread, How about this one, I have a sign in my garden and it is wearing out wish I had another one. It say's, Free Weed's Pull your own, so cute it makes people laugh. always catches a eye, and we have one that say's God's signature written in flower's. I just love the one you see everywhere, Live well, laugh often and Love much. One says welcome God Sunshine and Flowers or could put friends. Love the quote's this thread made me chuckle.

LOL! I love the first one. I often wonder what really goes through dog or cats heads when their owners dress them up in outlandish costumes. I have a pretty good idea what my dog would think. They'd be ripped to shreds in the blink of an eye.

Thank you very much, Mike. I was hoping you'd respond & were closer to Monmouth County. I'm in eastern Monmouth County but not beach town. My neighbor downstairs who bought the NJNG system gave me copy of her paperwork. They had "special" which says she got furnace for "free" with purchase of Trane XR13 A/C. I wouldn't tell her I thought overall cost of $5,500. was an awful lot for just that A/C model if that was predicate for getting "free furnace". When I looked on Trane web site it said the XR13 a/c unit is 2nd from bottom offered. Nothing wrong with that if you have set amount to spend for okay performance but I get bad feeling when they seemingly dupe people with "free furnace" language. When I asked about matching A/C & Furnace, as I've seen on manufacturer web sites, the salesman said "they're all made by the same company". I know there are only a handful of OEM corporations but if a company says this matches that I'd think they should quote that way. If there's one thing my late father taught me....ask questions, get answers in writing, compare written info and don't believe BS sales pitches. I do my best to follow his sage advice but it's taken me a while to figure out HVAC components & what their specs mean. He used to take care of making inquiries of this kind for me. I was spoiled by a great father! I know I don't need a gold-plated system but want to get best I can for reasonable cost. I went through my later father's files & found name of independent HVAC company he used for years (for sizable center hall Colonial) after much investigation and comparison. They're sending someone over on Wed. to review situation & give proposal(s) for couple options. Don't know if it matters to people more familiar with HVAC but their installers are NATE certified which I believe requires continuing education. Hopefully they already got common sense at birth! It didn't dawn on me until later that my outdoor utility room must have some insulation because it also holds the hot water heater and pipes which don't have external insulation but haven't frozen in 27 years. A condensate pan under furnace is probably more prone to freezing due to lower depth & possibility of other things freezing along the way. I just know it's not very cold in there during winter but one could presume that's because the furnace is blasting! It's difficult for me to deal with a tradesman once I get a feeling I'm being given a blatant pitch or blown off for asking questions. Every purchaser can't be well versed in HVAC so I'd think a lot of people ask lots of questions. Thanks again for your help. Stay afloat with heavy rains out your way. Leslie

If you take the perimeter overflow and the raised beam out of the equation your around 80,000.00. After adding up the total with all the options he gave you, 80,000.00 seems high because of what he is giving you as far as engineering, materials and plumbing. Not sure how much any existing demo you have and whether that is figured into the cost. I can't tell you whether 41,000.00 is to much for an perimeter overflow or not since I don't know your enginnnering, plumbing requirments or size of your surge tank. Sorry I can't be of anymore help.