The basement of our house has simple wood paneling that has been painted over by the previous owners. Long story short it looks pretty crappy and I'd like to redo all the walls of the basement with drywall. My biggest concern with the project is dealing with the hot water register baseboards. Currently the registers are flush against the framing and the paneling is cut out around the baseboards. What I'd like to do is run drywall along the framing and then have the registers run flush with the drywall. This means that the registers will need to move out from the wall an additional 1/2" from it's current position The piping is run though the concrete and emerges near the framing and then immediately has 2 elbows. My opinion on the situation is that there is no room cut the pipe before the current elbows because I don't think there is enough room for a sleeve and sweating the fitting before the piping goes into the concrete. Personally I feel the piping needs to be cut near the fins but I figured I'd post here and see what everyones opinion is. Problem then becomes how to move the pipe out 1/2" so the register is moved out 1/2" to allow the drywall to fit. Pictures of the situation are posted here http://www.hagelstrom.com/1.jpg http://www.hagelstrom.com/2.jpg

I'm trying to do a fuel cost analysis of natural gas vs oil for a steam boiler and I'm having trouble to determine the proper figure to input for the gas cost. This is the calculator I'm using: http://www.warmair.net/html/fuel_cost_comparisons.htm The oil portion I understand, but I'm not sure what I'm paying for gas. This is how my latest bill breaks down: Difference in meter: 37 Conversion to CCF: x 1.0120 CCF Total: 37.444 Conversion to Therms: x 1.03700 Total Therms: 38.829 Service charge: $5.84 Distribution charge: (38.829 therms @ $0.3005486) $11.64 BGSS commodity: (38.829 therms @ $1.07368200) $41.96 Total Gas Charges: $59.20 -------- So what do I use as a cost per cu ft?