Out with The Steam....in with the 21st Century

Brad White_202

Fantastic, neat and clean work, Mad Dog! Great to hear "Outstanding Client" Stories like that. She fed you... so cool.

I love the simplicity of line, the progression from power to boiler to water and how you concealed the wiring so nicely behind the board.

Something to be proud of, both you and your client, this Thanksgiving.

Mad Dog_2

You guys know how I feel about The Steam.................but

The times they are a changin' and if we don't do it someone else will. This is a job we just wrapped yesterday...right on the dealine. Kim, the owner and architect is having 23 people over for dinner. This is a job that will be in phases but eventually have 8 zones: Radiant wood, wet mud job zones, and has Buderus Panel rad zones. She is even open to solar integration down the line. My Village just approved solar! She is very fussy and that is why she wanted us. She is VERY, VERY happy and so are we. She was an OUTSTANDING client. Fed us every day!!!!! Mad dog

Ross_7

fuel usage

Matt,

Economically, how has that new vapor system been at your house? Sorry this is off topic, BTW this project looks good so far, for this lady.

Robert O'Brien

Matt

Great job! I love those S-120 indirects

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David Sutton_6

Nice job Matt!!

Looks good man, you are on top of the game!

David

kpc_44

I got to ask....

how well will the radiant work w/ the taco 5000 mix valves and the modulating temps on the GB142? I have had mixed luck w/ that set up... seems they get confused w/ the temp outputs.

clammy

nice work

Very nice work Matt happy turkey day peace and good luck clammy Ps just wondering why not use the i series valve i just installed one for my staple up took a little to dial it in but it 's working excellent chow

Mad Dog_2

My system works very well and economically

although it IS ready for a really good steam side cleaning...she has started to bang and knock.......you know the story of the shoemaker's kids...right? Mad Dog

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Mad Dog_2

Thanks guys..........

I like to keep it simple, but I will trying them soon. So far, they have worked just fine, but we'll see. Thank you for all the kind words, guys. Mad dog

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Mad Dog_2

AsI drove past her house last night

after dropping off Great Uncle Leo, I thought about the job and all the guests she was having over. All of Kim's Uncles and both granfathers are either engineers, old Brooklyn Navy Yard pipefitters and the like."LIVING DEADMEN" as I call them couldn't wait to see the mechanical room. As Uncle Brian and I had our night cap in town at The Pub...a text message came thru from Kim saying: "...you passed the toughest inspectors yet....the old krauts took a long look and simply said BEAUTIFIL!" That felt good REAL good. Mad Dog

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kpc_44

you are...

a brave man. Engineers are tough to work for. Well done.

gerry gill

good looking job..

very nicely done MD..LOOKS GREAT..

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Bob Bona_4

looks

Great Brother!

You are pre-forgiven for replacing the steam. You know better than anyone what kind of system will serve the end user best- in ease of maintainence, and flexibilty.

Norm Harvey

Fantastic job Mad Dog!!!

As others have said, I esspecially like the wiring run behind the board.

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Mad Dog_2

i can,t take full credit for that

My good buddy jimmy the gent burke of comfort zone came up with that idea after we teamed up on a job and I loved everything but the mass of bx that although was neat...still detracted from the cleam look. Md

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scott markle_2

I like the little blue indirect but in my experience (using the sensor supplied with the GB) I was a bit disappointed to find that I could get ahead of the recovery a bit. While the pairing can provide continuous production for an average shower draw, it seem to have some minor catch up issues. Maybe the sensor should be a bit higher in the tank, because the system sometimes seems a bit slow to recognize that it needs to go into full throttle recovery.

One performance merit to larger tank sizing: In the summer shorter cycle lengths(from small storage tanks) mean more boiler stranded BTU's, larger tanks have higher standby losses but I suspect that heat stranded in the boiler from frequent cycles is an equally important factor in overall efficiency.