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Re: Refurbished radiator making bird noises. Not vent?
If it does heat, there's a hole making a hawk screech noise.
HVACNUT
Re: Sun Room- Add Sixth Baseboard Hotwater Zone or a Mini Split
Please don’t listen to that plumber.
keep the HW for when single digits and that NW wind blows.
pecmsg
Re: Sun Room- Add Sixth Baseboard Hotwater Zone or a Mini Split
I'd run the baseboard into the sun room — but on its own zone, as sun room heat demands are so different from other rooms.
As to freezing — unless that room is isolated from the rest of the house (doesn't sound like it) it's not much more likely to freeze than the rest of the house!
Re: Sun Room- Add Sixth Baseboard Hotwater Zone or a Mini Split
Im confused
You're eliminating the HW forced air but keeping the baseboard?
In not a fan of 100% mini heat pumps, too man y things to go wrong and parts are NOT readely available.
Keep the HW heating as a backup.
pecmsg
Re: Need some advice for a vintage Peerless radiator valve hookup
Saw the nut off the spud by cutting in two places to split the nut. Then put something metal a piece of round stock use threaded rod, a cold chisel handle or whatever you have inside the spud so it doesn't crush with a pipe wrench on it
Re: Need help with new install of radiant with Buderus cast iron boiler
Some heat emitter comparison from the recent Coffee with Caleffi.
Notice a panel radiator is about 1% the mass of a 4" slab!
hot_rod
Re: Oversized overtall chimney?
Strongly disagree that a chimney can't be oversized. draft is caused by the temp difference of heated air versus combustion air.
You go to a cabin on a cold wet damp day. You have the door open, and you try and light the fireplace and its back drafting.
Nothing to do with MU air you have the door open.
You get the newspaper and kindling going and it starts to draft because the chimney is warming up. the bigger the chimney the more heat it takes to get going.
How many gas fired atmospherics have been ripped out and the existing gas fired water heater is left in the chimney with the boiler replaced by a MOD CON. Then the chimney may be to large for the water heater and you have to comply with the 7X rule.
So of course chimneys can be too big.
Re: Oversized overtall chimney?
Guys,,, I really don't think the problem is a lack of combustion air… He's got a whacking great chimney there and is trying to find ways to reduce the amount of air going up it. I have seen a chimney that size develop enough draught to break a four foot a square piece of quarter inch plywood and try to such it up the chimney on a cold day with normal room temperature indoors.
If he really wants to reduce that draught he's going to have to drop a liner in there, sized to the appliance, and seal the space around the liner in the existing flue. That's going to cost, and other than the feel good of not having so much draught up the chimney it won't save enough on heating costs to make it worth the effort.
But folks, from the sound of it — don't worry about not having enough combustion air. That's not the problem.
Re: Help with Goodman GSXC16 Error code 04
that sounds like a bad neutral. it could cause the voltage of the control xfmr in the furnace to drop but the 240 v motors wouldn't cause it to drop. i suppose it could be one of the secondary lines was broken on the power system so it wasn't sharing load over the transformers
mattmia2
Re: GoldLine CM_50 solar control system
Unless there is reason to remove the collectors now, you might want to leave them and just remove the indoor parts. Leave the pipes and sensor wire to them cut with enough stub-out left so a future owner could reconnect (after pressure testing). Or just convince the owner to put it back in working order.
You might want also to take a hard look at the gas water heater's pressure relief valve as it appears to have a corrugated pipe attached. You want to make sure this terminates properly (i.e., not plugged, going uphill, or draining where it would not be noticed… and conforming to other code requirements.)
