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Re: Unico potable water furnace, expansion tank pressure
If this is correct — that is, if that valve is just a backflow preventor and not a pressure reducing valve, then the pressure tank needs to be set to the domestic water pressure when the system is cold, and the pressure tank needs to be certified to operate at that pressure.
Re: Domestic hot water
As mentioned by some contributors it could be the check valve in circulation pump causing the problem.
I had this similar issue when i descaled this unit back in summers but that time I flushed water out from the plumbing system and it worked fine after that.
I am probably going to call a professional to take a look what exactly is going on.
Thanks everyone!
raricky
Re: Notification bell not clearing
sometimes mentions don't clear first time, I usually don't follow a whole post though. i wonder if notifications aren't clearing when a "new" comment has been edited multiple times. I know there are quite a few times I might have edited a comment several times because I'm bad at proofreading before I click post lol
GGross
Re: My SteamPunk boiler
The price of construction materials has gone up a lot faster than average inflation because of demand in countries that are transitioning from rural to urban environments. The materials to install my 100' of gutter with stainless hardware and 100' of fiber cement fascia cost over $2k.
mattmia2
Re: The Battle Inside Your Boiler: Air vs Steam
Take the vent out of the radiator and run the boiler, see if the riser gets hot fast. If it doesn't you have some other issue like condensate trapped somewhere or a broken or partially closed valve.
mattmia2
Re: My SteamPunk boiler
The boiler itself isn't all that expensive, for that amount of work you could have replaced it.
mattmia2
Re: American Standard Aqua Seal Faucet
It is possible that the replacement cartridge you got is not manufactured correctly too. with the combination of covid shortages and moving manufacturing to china there are a lot of incorrectly made parts out there.
mattmia2
Re: American Standard Aqua Seal Faucet
Its not like this is some rare and unusual valve. American Standard designed these to be repaired almost indefinitely because they are installed where repairing the tile to install a new valve would be a major operation. The American Standard parts book is out there and pretty easy to find. If you can't match up the parts for this, that would be no different than not being able to connect to an existing galvanized pipe and suggesting it all needs to be replaced because you don't know how to work with it.
mattmia2