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Re: After two heating seasons freezing point of radiant heat system has gotten lower
That's….. What I said
Except for the separation thing, which can't happen.
GroundUp
Re: Lochinvar boiler isn’t keeping up
Hi, One big and one small reason not to oversize storage. The small one is more heat loss/waste from the greater surface area of the bigger tank/s. The big one is the tank can become an amplifier for bacteria if the volume of the tank is not turned over pretty consistently. The bacteria then gets inhaled in the shower or elsewhere, and nobody is happy.
Yours, Larry
Re: Lochinvar boiler isn’t keeping up
I'd still prefer to know how a system is controlled and piped prior to changing it out for a bigger tank I think.
GGross
Re: Lochinvar boiler isn’t keeping up
you really think a 40 gallon boiler mate with an 80k boiler is a 1 bathroom tank? I have a 50 gallon low efficient gas w/h with a 50k burner and run 3 showers simultaneously when the family comes up, one of those showers has 3 people use it one after the other and we don't run out. If all the OP was having issues with was regarding their tub I'd say its definitely too small, but they also said if they run 2 showers at the same time they run out. If these are somewhat standard showers then they have a piping or control problem in my opinion, the tub might still not be able to go at the same time as the showers though.
GGross
Re: Munchkin 140m troubleshooting FO9
Thanks Bob. You are always so helpful.
I'll look at the website, didn't think there was one since they were supposed to be out of business.
CBRob
Re: Furnace stack temp
Is that 550 gross or net? If the space is 65 and the 550 is gross your net is 485 which isn't to bad. Other than that I would consider 550 a little high.
What fan speed are you running? 125-135 is a bit high on the discharge. Your temp rise is 65 maybe check the manual and speed up the fan.
Re: Drain radiator in one pipe system
As far as I know the radiators here (one pipe system) have not been drained in almost 100 years.
If you think there is excessive trapped water maybe the radiator valves are not opened all the way, broken or the pipe pitch is incorrect so water in the pipes near the radiators is trapped and puddling.
If you do drain the water from the radiators and don't repair the underlying cause it will simply return after a heating cycle or two.
109A_5
Re: Hot water line in steam boiler flashing fix
You would like to pump after the bypass "recycle" joint because then the water you are pumping is cooler and less prone to flashing to steam due to the low pressure generated by the pump.
You would also like to run that outlet down to the floor where the pump should be sitting so it has a little more "head" (pressure) going into it I think. You are really close to the water level there.
I think you know this since you mentioned Dan's article which goes into all this, so all you have to do now is to move the stuff around to where it should be. Once begun, it's half-done.
Re: Radiators heating even though their zone pump is off.
Well, it's not correct piping if that is what you are asking. I'm not sure the effect of having both pumps on the mix valve like that. It probably depends on what position the valve cartridge happens to be in.
There is room to the right of the lower right pump to pop an ell in and pipe it correctly.
hot_rod
