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Re: Do you trust the “pros” in your area?
In my opinion, youcan always boil it down to 30% of any team, or group that are heavy hitters who genuinley love what they do and excel at it. The other 70% just want to look as cool as the 30% but rarely love what they do. That is the secret sauce and you can't teach it.
SlamDunk
Re: New boiler installed but with pretty bad water hammer, please help
There are several improvements that can be made and questions that can be asked.
That said, the most obvious cause of your water hammer and surging is dirty water. Any new boiler and its piping must be cleaned properly and the water line skimmed.
You should have the original installer return and finish the job, which should include this cleaning. If he balks at the request, direct him to the manufacturer's installation manual which outlines the procedure and its requirement.
Re: Do you trust the “pros” in your area?
A community college professor I know got frustrated when many of the students, high school grads could even do the basic math needed for simple load calcs, etc. High schools graduating students that can barely read, write, add and subtract!
But they could txt like nobody's business :)
hot_rod
Re: Steam radiator flushing
The somewhat wonky piping around the boiler isn't helping — but it isn't going to hurt enough to be worth doing anything much about until you need a new boiler — which may be quite a while. Then it won't be that hard.
In the meantime, patience. But glad that getting the valves right helped!
Re: New boiler installed but with pretty bad water hammer, please help
What the diagram of the piping kit is NOT indicating is pipe sizes. The piping must be large enough to keep the velocity low so that water is not drawn up into the system with the steam.
Just because your piping looks similar in configuration does not mean that your pipe sizes are sufficient. In fact, looking at the size of the existing pipes, I’d say that the new piping is way undersized.
Ironman
Re: Radiator with no air vent?
You are missing something: the trap on the outlet from the radiator just to the right of your feet in the pictures.
That trap is the way air — and condensate — get out of the radiator so steam can get in. The pipe going down through the floor should connect to a dry return near the overhead in the basement, and that, in turn, should go to a vent somewhere near the boiler.
If that trap is failed closed — which happens — the radiator won't heat. It also won't heat if the pipe in the basement isn't connected to a dry return.
So that's what you want to go after. Check first the piping in the basement, and if that looks at least plausible the odd are on the trap. Replacement innards are readily available — if you tell us what markings there are on the cover we can help find them.
You neither need nor want a vent!
Re: Oil Burner Tools
vacuum gauge for the oil line is nice to have for the rare occasion you’d need it.
jpulls11
Re: Oil Burner Tools
pump pressure manifold set, combustion analyzer. basic hand tools. Smoke tester. It's just combustion.
Re: blockage?
Can you post some pics standing back a bit and from different angles?
Its not gravity? There's a circulator? Do you know if the circulator is running?
Are there bleeders on the emitters? Pics?
HVACNUT
Re: How to Install a Toilet? Step-by-Step Advice
@Alan (California Radiant) Forbes Try these. They are without a dought the best I have ever used. They are called set fast closet bolts. Heavy duty and you don't have to cut them.
Intplm.