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Re: Steam Coming out of Main Vent!
How does condensate get out of that steam main where the offending vent is located? Which way does it pitch? I really can't tell from the pictures. However, if it is parallel flow -- pitching away from the boiler -- there should be a drip at the end of that main to a wet return. I would make sure that that drip -- or the wet return to which it is connected -- is not clogged. However, if it pitches back to the boiler, I would double check to be sure that it really does pitch back to the boiler for its full length, and can't possibly allow water to pool at that end, near the vent.
Re: 2 Pressuretrol Cut-Ins and 1 Cut Out?
But i don't know much about that burner other than it is a huge gas power burner and you should be having someone that understands it servicing it.Brought someone out from this forum - doing just that.
Re: LG Red HeatPump (ducted) energy consumption
Wellll, I'm not crazy, there was something wrong which was causing the high energy consumption.... a leak, @ethicalpaul and a few others were right.... techs are here now repairing the lines set... a pin hole? Bend? Idk... he said that the levels were so low he didn't know why it didn't shut off by itself and throw a code... here is what he showed me...
MattT
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Re: Mod con vs cast iron for my specific home
I have done the calculations with propane. In my area the current cost on propane is 1.39/gallon.
Wow!!! That’s low. If you go the two cast iron boiler route, you can size them differently - for example 60kbtu and 120kbtu. This way there’s less cycling.
Re: Compression tank loop
@Peta,
Speaking as a home owner:
Adding an air scoop, more larger diameter pipe, isolation flanges and automatic air vents(which fail at the worst times) adds plumbing that is just more trouble.
A steel compression tank or plain steel tank is with an ATF-12 AIRTROL Valve they much easier to own and you do not have to spend hours on your knees bleeding fin tube baseboard.
Once the system is filled with the proper ratio of air to water and you start your boiler and circulator you turn the thermostat all the way up to heat the water and if the riser pipe is properly plumbed with an INTERNAL AIR SEPARATOR (IAS) or if your boiler has a cast baffle in the steam chest to slow down and divert air bubbles they will find the riser pipe to the ATF-12 AIRTROL valve and the water bubbles will rise into the steel tank and dissolve and cool water will sink back into the boiler minus any air bubbles.
The other benefit is the weight of the water in the steel compression tank or plain steel tank keeping the circulator or circulators flooded with bubble free water.
Speaking as a home owner:
Adding an air scoop, more larger diameter pipe, isolation flanges and automatic air vents(which fail at the worst times) adds plumbing that is just more trouble.
A steel compression tank or plain steel tank is with an ATF-12 AIRTROL Valve they much easier to own and you do not have to spend hours on your knees bleeding fin tube baseboard.
Once the system is filled with the proper ratio of air to water and you start your boiler and circulator you turn the thermostat all the way up to heat the water and if the riser pipe is properly plumbed with an INTERNAL AIR SEPARATOR (IAS) or if your boiler has a cast baffle in the steam chest to slow down and divert air bubbles they will find the riser pipe to the ATF-12 AIRTROL valve and the water bubbles will rise into the steel tank and dissolve and cool water will sink back into the boiler minus any air bubbles.
The other benefit is the weight of the water in the steel compression tank or plain steel tank keeping the circulator or circulators flooded with bubble free water.
leonz
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Re: Compression tank loop
@PeteA
Cost of a correct upgrade from Air Management to Air Removal. You might need two bladder tanks (they are smaller). Parts and Labor to repipe. Air Removal device(s). Dirt Magnet. The old style tanks are very tolerant of dirt and rust.
It's like putting a digital dash, big blingy rims, and a small block chevy, in a classic International Harvester truck.
Cost of a correct upgrade from Air Management to Air Removal. You might need two bladder tanks (they are smaller). Parts and Labor to repipe. Air Removal device(s). Dirt Magnet. The old style tanks are very tolerant of dirt and rust.
It's like putting a digital dash, big blingy rims, and a small block chevy, in a classic International Harvester truck.
WMno57
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Re: is it possible to use plate heat exchanger for domestic hot water
There are a few ways to go about this. A small electric water heater tank as a buffer with the HX in a series loop set up as a zone from the CI boiler would probably be the easiest and cheapest. Otherwise a simple flow switch like a combi uses, that could actuate a 3 way valve or zone circ to do the same thing without the tank.
GroundUp
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Re: Very Cool 😎 Urinals at a Brewery
there's a brewery here in CT where rt 8 and 25 meet I95,
it's inside one of the cloverleafs,
same urinals.
it's inside one of the cloverleafs,
same urinals.
neilc
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Re: Old Radiators
Nice Dan..I installed those A.A. Griffin. Rads in my Old Victorian 1899-1900. The very wide one behind the couch in the Parlor I got from an Old Qauker Estate Farmhouse in Old Westbury (Long Island 🏝 North Shore Gold Coast). The Mini, I purchased at A1 Radiator in Mass from Fran Fahey. Love em. Mad Dog 🐕
Old Radiators
We are replacing the boiler in a c. 1887 Queen Anne Victorian home in upper NW DC, right on the Maryland line.
I have seen pictures of radiators like these, but never in person.
I will post pictures of the boiler when we replace it after the holidays. 
Dan Foley
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