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Re: Extending Slant-Fin Hot water baseboard
Is the entire system still running gravity with no circulator or is a former gravity system comverted with a circulator?
Regardless, its not the best thing to have baseboard on the same system with CI radiation because they don't heat the same.
A couple of options are to add baseboard but it may not work to your satisfaction. Or take the baseboard out and install a CI radiator.
Is the baseboard on it's own loop or tied into the gravity system?
Pictures will help.
of the boiler and boiler piping from 8' away and pics of the baseboard piping where it connects to the system
Re: One pipe steam dry return blockage
it would have to be like 90%+ blocked to have been involved at all. There are several issues that people tend to blame on blockages where the actual cause is elsewhere.
And it’s understandable to want to blame a blockage for these things—it seems obvious! Until you replace the pipes and the problem remains
Re: Threading options for 2-1/2 and 3" iron pipe?
The two trades I never argue with are pipe fitters and masons.
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Re: Threading options for 2-1/2 and 3" iron pipe?
Most of the guys that gave you advice or answered your question have threaded everything from 1/8" through 4", including "Vic" fittings, as have I. Threading steel pipe up through 2" is just part of a boiler install. Threading 2.5" through 4" is not for the faint of heart, nor is it a job we all loved to do. Unless you are going to thread a lot of pipe over 2" I would recommend that you find a shop or pipe supplier to thread the few pieces you need. Don't waste your money or time buying the large threading tools. Time is money, and hand threading anything over 2" takes a lot of time, muscle and patience.
Re: Heat pump mini split question
As Kaos supposes, I think it will work. The heat pump will put out sufficient heat most of the time on most of the days and the steam heat in the rest of the house will help make up the difference.
The air blowing around will be a little cold and uncomfortable.
He'll get a nice tax credit and some money from NationalGrid that will help pay his increased electric bill. Tell him to save money for a replacement in seven or eight years because he isn't getting parts from Malaysia for that thing.
Re: One pipe steam dry return blockage
I can't figure this out, but you have a union on the bottom pipe that you can open and shove a snake through it if you really believe something is clogged.
If you have steel pipe that big that is clogging, you should really replace it and straighten out this mess. But I don't see how that would clog.
Re: Will Tariffs Increase Prices on Parts and Equipment?
If history has a say in how tariffs raise prices, look at what happened somewhere around the 1890s and the 1930s. With tariffs, prices went up. This "helped" to put the U.S. in a mode of isolationism. Imposing tariffs can not be done recklessly. The U.S. betrayed the trust of our trade partners, causing terrible losses.
It's like when you deal with a customer. If you do not have a good, trusting business relationship, things tend to fall apart. And prices can and have gone up, or you lose their business at a cost.
Intplm.
Re: Will Tariffs Increase Prices on Parts and Equipment?
I've heard rumor that American suppliers have raised prices as soon as tariffs were implemented because they knew they could. Rather than leveling the playing field it simply raised prices across the board and kept the difference the same. This is going back years, not the current situation.
ChrisJ
Re: Buderus GB142-24: Repair or Replace?
Believe it or not, most of the "wall hung" boilers aren't designed for a long life especially if water conditions are not to spec and if not completely serviced on an annual basis according to manufacturers recommendations.
I've replaced a number of various manufacturers boilers that were not installed correctly and almost never serviced.
Re: Extending Slant-Fin Hot water baseboard
It looks as though floor was added after the BB was installed. That space under the BB is very important and if it's made smaller by adding flooring, could reduce heat output by reducing flow. It should be around 2". I'd move that carpet further away as well.
