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Re: Replace B&G 100 or use Taco 007 monoflo
I was called into a job years ago where my brother in laws father (in his 90s) was complaining that his addition on his house was cold. He had an old gas fired steam boiler with a tankless heater that heated the HW loop for the addition. There were 2 or three CI rads and they had piped a split loop 1" supply and 2 3/4 returns. (way overkill) He already had every local plumber look at this with no luck. They had monkeyed with this for years. They had taken the CI radiators out, put baseboard in and then put the CI radiators back in. I don't think it ever worked right. I think as his father got older he couldn't tolerate the lack of heat.
It had a Taco 110 circ.
After staring at this for a while feeling the pipes and bleeding the system I stood there looking at the tankless coil with it's 1/2" connections and pictured how much 1/2" tubing it took to make the tankless coil.
I upped the pump (forget what I put in) and it was fine.
I never missed when sizing a pump for a new job but going to an existing job that sort of works it gets in your head.
You have to step back , start from scratch gather some information and figure it out.
Re: top floors not getting that much heat
Your vents on each radiator may need attention, you may also have the pressure set too high
There are other causes. Can you post photos of your boiler in the basement so we can see the connecting pipes from the floor to the ceiling?
Re: Flaring tools
I think, if I remember right the clutch releases before the double flare is complete. I could be misremembering though.
Grallert
Re: Return/Condensate pump questions
Check valve between the pump and boiler is leaking back. I believe you supposed to have 2 of them 1 at the pump and another at the boiler.
Re: Return/Condensate pump questions
Unless there are emitters in the basement, returns below the boiler are easier to pipe directly.
mattmia2
Re: Flaring tools
Any of them will do double flare if you have the buttons to make the initial fold
mattmia2
Re: oversized water heater
250 if a very large tank, depending on the burner size it may be an ASME tank, worth some $$$ depending on the age
How is it vented.
hot_rod
Re: Burner technicians -what’s going on in this industry?
I agree with @GroundUp to an extent. There are plenty of losers in the union and out of the union. I ran a job with 8-10 pipe fitters and 4 sheet metal guys and one of the pipefitters feel asleep outside in the blazing sun. Probably had too much liquid lunch so I fired him on the spot. And he had just come back to work after being laid off for two years…….I wonder why!!!!!! And he complained no one would hire him!!! Guess riding the bench didn't teach him anything. And he complained that "black pipe is too hard" & "why wern't we using copper" It was a steam job!! We were an out of town contractor so the other local tried to stick us with him.
But you learn who the good ones are and there were a lot of them at least in my local. I learned a lot from them when I was young. Most of them did a good job and a decent days work.
Re: Burner technicians -what’s going on in this industry?
I was referring to HVAC. Installing boilers. Piping, soldering, wiring, controls, setup. Furnaces and air handlers. Knocking tin, testing SP, piping exhaust flue, running drains, leveling. The AV stuff IDK.
HVACNUT