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Re: Warm Morning gas vented heater, flue spill issue with gas safety valve
are you sure it isn't a manual reset or bad spill switch? if spill switches are tripping someone that understands combustion and draft should look at it.
mattmia2
Re: 2psi propane
That is an incredibly false statement. Not everybody wants to run 1" lines across the whole building when it's a fraction of the price and half the labor to run 1/2" and add a 3rd stage reg. Might as well knock it down to 12" with the first stage at the tank, by that logic. Obviously a small home with a 40k forced air furnace and nothing else gas is a different story, but in the age where everybody has a 199k tankless as well as a boiler and/or furnace w/ fireplace and gas range, 2# inside is almost a necessity.
GroundUp
Re: Anyone know about disassembly of these full-port Webstone (Nibco) ball valves?
a $20 valve with $25 of press fittings attached… you have to leave an access panel for the valve if you drywall over it.(although i am very much in favor of ceiling tile in basements because you always have to get in to the ceiling)
mattmia2
Re: New Thermostat
The old thermostat was not the reason for the short cycling…unless someone with busy fingers really messed up the anticipator.
Re: New NYC steam radiator inspection law - what does it mean?
While I agree with you in principle, @DanHolohan , I have one other — and it's major — concern. If this regulation is necessary — and it may be — it points to two underlying problems. The first is that the people who own and maintain buildings are assumed to be incompetent to perform proper maintenance. This may be true… but the assumption is unfortunate. The second, however, is a deeper problem: it was one assumed that the parents had an absolute and unbreakable responsibility to care for their children, to teach them well (in many different ways!) and to protect them from harm..
This relatively minor regulation is just another one saying that the parents can outsource that responsibility to "society" without consequence — indeed that it is preferable that they should do so.
Not sure I like that.
Re: Manifold identification
TA could be Tour Andersson, I think it is part of Vitraulic now
Mainly know for their balance valves, in the US.
hot_rod
Re: Beautiful cleaned up American Radiator
That's their "Rococo" model. We see a lot of them around here- and yes, they are beasts to move around!
Re: Circulator noise when hot?
if the circulator is too big for the piping or a valve is mostly closed or a strainer or something is clogged, it could still be cavitation.
mattmia2