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Re: Packing Heat
Time POV. If your family is going to keep home for thirty years going off grid will eventually pay handsomely. That is because eventually anyone connected will have to pay her fair share of maintaining grid. No matter how few kwhr she requires. Similarly electric car owners will have to kick in road taxes.
jumper
Re: Refurbished radiator making bird noises. Not vent?
Use extra layers of teflon tape with the vent. - try 6 wraps and use more if you think it may still be bottoming out. It's possible the vent it bottoming out allowing a very tiny amount of steam to escape
BobC
Re: Refurbished radiator making bird noises. Not vent?
My thought was that if there’s a hole I may hear air escaping
Tezak
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