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Re: Bathroom Radiator - The Wrong Way
The vital information American-Standard left off the instructions in 1952:
Back of a Sunrad Radiator: ( Face this side toward wall )
Front of Sunrad Radiator: ( Face this side away from wall )
They should have labeled the casting. So silly of them.
Re: Relocate Well Water Tank & increase PSI
Hunter sprinkler systems. They have a great product with a very user friendly timer, heads etc.
Best to have it sized by the installer.
Intplm.
Re: Relocate Well Water Tank & increase PSI
Do you know the brand and model of the submersible? That would give you info regarding how many gpm you could expect. Then size the sprinkler circuits to what the pump can provide.
If you pump hard, the water level may drop, which will reduct the amount of water the pump will supply. But it is hard for you to know all this until summer rolls around and water levels drop. If it even does? Local well drillers usually have this information.
In my area all the homes had to lower their pumps as the water table kept dropping. I replaced my pump and galvanized piping at the same time as it was 30 years old.
hot_rod
Re: 2 risers compared to 1 on steam boiler?
Ill take the opinion of a Surgeon, plumber, Brick Mason, Attorney, et cetera with decades of actual experience over Armchair pundits & tinkerers. We know what works, what don't, and what's best. Mad Dog
Re: A heating challenge!
So looking at the layout and of course height of the ceilings would probably be, hydronics would absolutely be your best bet for even heating of the facility which you could zone out for the different areas and utilize baseboard convectors and even some cast iron rads that you could “rescue” from architectural savage or just a private seller who is switching heating systems. Of course, if that’s too time consuming, you can buy the new panel style radiators for the offices, and breakroom areas.
All this can be controlled by a commercial electric boiler. I’m unsure of what the BTU calculation is for the building but this boiler here has some options to go even bigger. I’m excited to see which route you end up going.
I work in a hospital and we have four massive boilers that serve the entire complex. I’ll even include a few pictures of the boiler room because it looked so cool but you won’t need nothing that scale lol. They were doing some service in there when I was passing through.
Re: Blower not coming on
Run the unit with the blower door compartment off. Hold the door switch closed with your fingers and create a heating demand. When the blower motor starts to spin release the switch and check the rotation of the motor by looking at the fan blades as it slows down. The blower should be scooping the air. This will tell you whether it is rotating in reverse.
pedmec
Re: Relocate Well Water Tank & increase PSI
Don't go to all of that trouble and expense. You can add and adjust your pressure switch to a greater pressure. You can purchase a 60/40 pressure switch giving you a 60psi top end pressure with a 40psi cut in/pump on pressure.
You can even do this with what you currently have. Adjusting the pressure switch to say, a fifty seventy psi adjustment can do all of what you are asking including the sprinkler system.
However. The age of your pump, tank and well can be a factor as they might not be able to take these adjustments.
If things are in good shape and are not too old and your well has a good recovery rate then I would simply adjust the pressure switch. And once that is done charge your tank to two (2) psi below the cut in setting with no water in it.
A few questions:
What is the model and type of tank?
What type of pump? Submersible? Jet pump?
What type of well? Shallow dug well? Drilled deep well? How deep is it and what is the static water level? Have you ever run out of water?
Does the pump maintain a pressure within the current psi setting? Or does it cycle between the settings.
Intplm.
Re: Power vent for a natural gas boiler
Your better off going with the OEM model. You got at least 20 years out of it. That's not bad.
pedmec
Re: Power vent for a natural gas boiler
Alot easier to get the model # of the fasco thats on there now and just swap like for like. That stainless vent is very expensive you want to line up perfectly otherwise you won't save anything on a different model
Re: Taco 218 universal flochek
hi Ed,
Maybe it’s hard to see from the previous picture, but it looks to be connected to only one flocheck. Perhaps this picture is better.
rob51