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Re: Heat Pump Refrigerant Uncertainty
A lot of people rail against pin boilers but the same people still install them on their jobs. I see nothing wrong with them.
The Weil McLain has been around for many years and seems to hold up pretty well.
Re: The Things I See Out There
I cheat, drain down the system and read the before and after on the water meter! Normally have to because there’s typically no isolation valves on those old system.
PC7060
Re: Want a Wall Mounted Ductless Heat Pump
I knew you were all having trouble sleeping waiting for this. Sorry for the delay.
Had an 18,000 btu Mitsubishi mini split installed today.
I have a grace period for comebacks so plan to get them to relocate the head unit (center) and square it to the painting below.
No point in lining everything up until the head unit is properly centered and leveled in the space but you get the idea what it will look like.
Heat pump on the external wall precisely located to allow full opening of garbage cans.. Really impressed with the installation, and the installers.
I set the cooling temperature to 66 deg. F and turned on the recirculating fan on the furnace and the temperature on the hall thermostat has dropped from 71 deg. to 67 in maybe 20 minutes. So seems to be working as hoped. It's a beautiful day here in the 60s not really conducive to giving the unit a work out.
And the operation is totally noiseless and vibrationless, totally undetectable from inside while operating.
Thanks for the inputs and recommendations!
kadini
Re: Bad solder daze
you can also heat it and smack it on a bench or something similar to propel the solder out or at least most of it.
mattmia2
Re: Augusta Stone Church
We’d still have to pipe up to the mains, but a couple of 3” lines would not be a big deal. Having to do a 4” header, which the present boiler would require, would be a lot more work.
We’ve been down this exact same road before:
Ironman
Re: Steam Boiler Replacement: Don't Make These Expensive Mistakes
One LGB -10 and One LGB-5. The Sanctuary (LGB-10) and upper level of the Church gets used only 3 hours every Sunday, so we seperated the systems and ran the first floor on its own new mains 3" and 2 1/2" and Returns. The First Floor is used 7 Days a week for Meals-on-Wheels, Bingo, Et Cetera.
We expect to see a healthy drop in fuel usage. We now have both systems humming along on 12 ounces and 8 ounces, respectively,of Steam Vapor. Mad Dog
Re: Draining residential boiler in spring
Thanks! I never took a class, but I’ve read a lot of books, mostly novels. I have a huge collection of brief descriptions that inspire me. For example:
He had the attention of a hummingbird
A yacht of a nose
As quiet as greased smoke
I have never understood the two of you. She’s a steaknife, and you’re a dessert spoon.
She ended the conversation with the efficiency of a guillotine.
She looked at me the way a woman looks at a pair of shoes that are OK, but not quite right.
Her eyes were clover green and Celtic fierce.
He picked his words as though they were fruit on a bramble bush.
As hot as a Tex-Mex picnic on Mercury
He entered the room looking like a Spanish galleon in full sail.
He left like a creaking rocking chair, squeaking and leaning back-and-forth.
He was charismatically challenged.
As crazy as a soup sandwich
He kept smiling at her with a mouth like a wet keyhole.
Re: Shower pan leak
does the new gasket just slip in or does it get smaller when you slide it in there? as most synthetic rubbers age they harden and will take the shape they were confined to
mattmia2
Re: How to remove old fittings
A perhaps not so minor comment on both monkey and crescent wrenches (and I have several of each). If you use one where you are going to apply some real force, make sure it is not worn and adjust the jaws to fit the nut or bolt tightly. Otherwise it's going to slip and round the hex, and then you really do have a problem… Honestly, in the application in the photo, I'd go down to the barn and find a deep socket which fit and use that. But then, not everyone has a drawer full of deep sockets down in the barn!
Re: How to remove old fittings
If I can do it (at 84), you can. Use a 24 inch pipe wrench on the pipe — set it as @mattmia2 said, so that the slide of the moving jaw is touching the pipe as well as the jaws) and set it to pull towards you, so that the jaws tighten as you pull (if you can't get the pipe wrench in back of the pipe, then swing it over to the other side and push on it). Then a big crescent wrench on the hex. Do NOT use a pipe wrench on a hex fitting — for one thing, it doesn't fit on a hex (meant for round stock) and for another it tears up the fitting. And I do mean a big crescent wrench.