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Re: New Steam Boiler Installed, Water Hammer, Prematurely Turns Off, Frustrated
Now that you've learned about boiler salesmen ethics, just imagine what medical doctors can sell you.
Re: New Steam Boiler Installed, Water Hammer, Prematurely Turns Off, Frustrated
Not only that, but if they are counterflow, they really need to have drips to the wet return before they reach the header!
Re: ProFlo Press Fittings & Ridgid Press Tool
We have some RP240s. The best money we ever spent.
Haven't filled the gas in the torch since we bought the ProPress.
I have nightmares about trying to get the water out of copper at 8pm to solder…. Hours of time wasted. Now it's in and out in ten minutes.
Re: ProFlo Press Fittings & Ridgid Press Tool
My "B" tank and "MC" tank haven't moved since I started using ProPress.
All of the Ridgid press tools are great. Viega fittings I have found to be superior.
What sold me completely was when I prepped a four inch copper water main that couldn't be shut off completely. With water flowing through the pipe, I pressed a four inch valve on in as little as thirty minutes.
With a torch, that job would have taken half a day if not an entire day. Not to mention the inconvenience that was avoided for the occupants of the building not having to be shut down all of that time.
@nbeauregard You will like the propress tool and fittings for both ACR and plumbing.
Intplm.
Re: Snow melt slab insulation
The issue is that this "warm" earth is many many feet down. The air around is cooling the soil at the same time, so the soil near the surface is near outdoor air temp. It simply doesn't work as proposed.
There was a similar argument with heated slabs in the old days and people built houses without insulation under the heated slab. The only thing they ended up with is very slow response and huge heating bills.
Do your costumers a favor and always insulate under any heated slab. Snow melt or basement, doesn't matter, it all needs insulation.
Kaos
Re: ProFlo Press Fittings & Ridgid Press Tool
Viega Press fittings or nothing! I've used Nibco in a pinch, but there is a noticeable difference in the quality. The only issue i've ever had wasn't the Viega fitting, it was imported 1 1/4 copper on an emergency boiler change out. Since then it's only been domestic copper and Viega fittings. Just prep you ends correctly and mark your depth once you insert the pipe. You get the hang of it quickly.
Re: Drums of water in the basement as a buffer
50 gallons of water from 65° to 140° = 31,275 btu.
Add up the number of barrels, see where you end up
hot_rod
Re: Drums of water in the basement as a buffer
Well, water is one of the best storage mediums, safe, inexpensive, readily available. It just takes a lot of it to store for extended periods.
"The stars may lie, but the numbers never do". All the heat energy storage and exchange rates have been well documented.
Generations of folks like us have been on this same quest. Better insulation, some phase change materials have made some advances, but at a $$. There is no "free" energy, and the more you have to manipulate, store, exchange it, the more it slips away.
Move to the sunny SW and build a passive home😎
hot_rod
Re: Automatic water feeder that won’t fail in on position
Hydrolevel VXT. Regular maintenance. The maintenance kit comes with the VXT
