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Re: buying a hydronics business
Does he want 100K/year for 2 years or 100K total?
Besides him training you what else do you get for 300K?
Is it necessary for you to buy this business to start or can you survive on plumbing for a while to get started.
If you can survive with plumbing until you have a better grasp on hydronics I would do that UNLESS you are convinced that buying his business would generate a lot of income right from the get-go.
Re: Soldering close to soldered fitting
that other half inch copper 90? You’d have to roast that fitting to come close to melting solder on that other fitting. All the pros are worried about that pro press fitting, you’re gonna heat up that rubber O-ring.
GW
Re: Soldering close to soldered fitting
Cut it all out and sweat it. It will take less time than worrying about the press fittings. You have plenty of copper coming out of the valve on the run of the tee. Remove the PP tee and coupling and sweat it.
No need to spend $25 on heat block for what a few fittings cost.
Re: Soldering close to soldered fitting
"Since I don't own a press tool, my first thought was to cut out the section just past the adjacent press fitting and solder replacement copper pipe with a new tee."
If the tee is the press fitting that needs replacement I'd cut out both press fittings and replace the whole section with solder.
Maybe even take off the solder elbow and go fresh from there.
Re: Soldering close to soldered fitting
If it were me, I'd remove the mess encircled in Red by cutting at the Yellow arrow and un-solder at the Orange arrow and rebuild as needed.
109A_5
Re: Water to Water Geothermal heat pump replacement with lp boiler
I called and talked to a rep from Water Furnace and he directed and recommended me to a company. They are out of Latrobe which is relatively close to me. I contacted them about stopping out so I'm crossing my fingers and hoping they actually follow through.
klowden
Re: I get all the weird ones...
"They need the door open for several reasons, they bring the material in with a loader, and then it gets placed with a 308 CAT excavator onto the conveyor. So they want the door open for the fresh air (i already told them bad idea) but also they run that loader in and out about a 100 times a day"
What a god awfull idea. Running a diesel engine inside a building.
Why don't they do things the normal way. An overhead trolley crane with a grapple. Staging area outside for unprocessed material. Crane moves material from outside in through a small opening right to the conveyor. Forklift inside for handling the bales.
Re: Baseboard Heaters - Slant Fin - Maintenance
True but baseboards will get dirty faster if they don't clean the apartment. its not like they need cleaning every year. Probably every 5 years.