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Re: Radiators make my apartment unbearable during winter
The system may be working as designed, it may just be a poor design. If there is no thermostat on your floor how would the system know when to stop heating the third floor ?
It would not surprise me if the seal in the valves were intentionally removed at some point.
Seems you may be stuck between a landlord that just does not care and the law that may just deal with minimum temperatures.
I think that's why the other folks offered other ban-aid type remedies. You are not the first to have this situation.
109A_5
Re: Radiators make my apartment unbearable during winter
So let's proceed, with cautious optimism but realistic expectations. We are certainly happy to help you as much as we can!!
Re: Radiators make my apartment unbearable during winter
You mentioned two thermostats. Anyway to know which thermostat controls what? You mentioned one tenant on the third floor that's having similar issues. Would probably be somewhat helpful to know if other apartments are having similar issues.
Re: Radiators make my apartment unbearable during winter
The first part, of this last post, might be somewhat inaccurate. Thermostat only knows the temperature of its particular location. For example, if there are 10 rooms and the thermostat is in room number four, it only knows the temperature of room number four. Or in your case, if the thermostat is in the hallway, it only knows the temperature in the hallway and only reacts based on that temperature. Covering your particular radiators would have zero effect on the thermostat.
Re: SuperStor SS-40 Aquastat Immersion Well LEAKING
If it's just the threads, drain system, back out well, re-tape, re-install (which may or may not be possible with your tank).
Re: Vent placement in home 2-pipe steam heat system
Didn't realiuse that.
However… may I humbly point out that steam systems don't know anything about the gauge pressure? Or vacuum? All they know is the pressure differential. So, to take the above comments on the Empire State Building as an example, lets' suppose that they have a steam feed pressure of 2 psi GAUGE and are operating at 10 inches vacuum. Now 10 inches vacuum is almost exactly - 5 psi GAIGE so that the building is operating on a pressure differential of 7 psi. It will in fact — except for temperature of the radiation — operate in exactly the same way with a boiler pressure of 7 psi GAUGE and open vents or, for that matter if you could get there, - 5 psi GAUGE at the boiler (10 inches of vacuum at the boiler) and 20 inches of vacuum on the returns…
Bottom line. If you really want to understand what is going on in a steam system, always work in absolute pressure and differential pressure. Gauge pressure and inches vacuum with trip you every time.
Re: Replacing 17 year old oil fired boiler/need help
what does effect efficiency is an over sized boiler!
An 87.% boiler could run in the 70% range if it is too large and short cycles
Knowing the amount of fin tube is useful, but a heat load calculation gives you the best answer
hot_rod
Re: Replacing 17 year old oil fired boiler/need help
Has either of these folks done the basics? Step one. determine the actual heating demand of the structure. How many BTUh do you actually need in the coldest weather. Step two: measure the size of the radiators or baseboards in the house.
Step one will give you the size of boiler, in terms of BTUh, you actually need. It may not be as much as you think. Or as much as you have…
Step two will tell you what temperature the boiler needs to run at.
Until those two steps are done there's no point in trying to determine what boiler you might find useful…
Re: Water Heater cycle
Reseating the connector solved everything. I'm inclined to leave it alone for now. We'll see..
hunter29