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Re: Vacuum breaker valves on tanks above the first floor?
What do we want? Better VB valves! When do we want it? NOW!
Quality and valve tech aside your logic is: it would be difficult to know so blanket application is justified. Many millions of tanks live long lives with no VB involved. BTW the valve is not on the outlets below the tanks. Those valves have a different and valid job. The valve in question is on the cold inlet above the tank. I understand it would be nice to idiot proof everything but that gets expensive and wasteful. Responsibility for understanding where and why it may be needed is not such a huge burden or complex problem for professionals. If you are a tank manufacture building tanks so flimsy they collapse due to a 2 story water column vacuum maybe the competition of the market should do you in. Or you put the valve on your special tank. Problem resolved and no pointlessly mandated mass expenses and complications.
Quality and valve tech aside your logic is: it would be difficult to know so blanket application is justified. Many millions of tanks live long lives with no VB involved. BTW the valve is not on the outlets below the tanks. Those valves have a different and valid job. The valve in question is on the cold inlet above the tank. I understand it would be nice to idiot proof everything but that gets expensive and wasteful. Responsibility for understanding where and why it may be needed is not such a huge burden or complex problem for professionals. If you are a tank manufacture building tanks so flimsy they collapse due to a 2 story water column vacuum maybe the competition of the market should do you in. Or you put the valve on your special tank. Problem resolved and no pointlessly mandated mass expenses and complications.
Teemok
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Re: Permit Required to Replace Boiler in MA?
If the ho won't let me meet the code then yes I walk away. Air admittance valves? Really ? Really really?
Re: Seal flue and thimble
Does this mean that mortar mix is dangerous when applied to my fireplace and chimney bricks. I know some really old masons that have been putting mortar between bricks on chimneys for years. I think the stuff between the bricks on my fireplace and chimney is mortar. Should I have it tested for fire safety? Who would know if it is safe? The fire marshal? The chimney sweep? Maybe the salesman at Home Depot?
What if the Lowes associate disagrees with the Home Depot associate? Will I ever be able to use my fireplace again? And will Santa be safe entering my home this Christmas Eve? What is a person supposed to do?
I'm sticking with Structolite. Problem solved!
What if the Lowes associate disagrees with the Home Depot associate? Will I ever be able to use my fireplace again? And will Santa be safe entering my home this Christmas Eve? What is a person supposed to do?
I'm sticking with Structolite. Problem solved!
Re: What's involved in a comprehensive annual service of a mod con boiler?
@GGros: do you always (every year) do a flush? with chemicals? with vinegar? and 1-3 hours depending on the type?
john123
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Re: The case of the missed Christmas party or My first sooted boiler
All you tips in the video are great. I used to come home looking like a coal miner every day. The only thing that would clean up my hands was bleach and water mixture.
My first wife (my ex) used to laugh at me when I came home looking like that so I divorced her LOL.
Thankfully the newer equipment does not soot like the old oil burners I worked on (a lot of #4  oil back then)
My first wife (my ex) used to laugh at me when I came home looking like that so I divorced her LOL.
Thankfully the newer equipment does not soot like the old oil burners I worked on (a lot of #4  oil back then)
Re: Anchoring to fieldstone foundations
There are a lot of stone foundations in with no mortar and they have been there for years.
My uncles house has a granite foundation with the stone put in with mortar. I had to core drill a 2" hole in it for a new electrical service some 30 years ago it was over a foot thick. Not fun. I did it with a core bit with a rotary hammer drill. My hands are still vibrating.
My uncles house has a granite foundation with the stone put in with mortar. I had to core drill a 2" hole in it for a new electrical service some 30 years ago it was over a foot thick. Not fun. I did it with a core bit with a rotary hammer drill. My hands are still vibrating.
Re: Buying fittings online
Agree with @Mad Dog_2. Only benefit of Home Depot, are the hours (which was @ethicalpaul's point). But there are almost zero heating products,that I would ever buy there. Maybe a thermostat, if really desperate. And I would check for layers of tape (each layer indicates how many times it's been opened or returned 😂😂). Kevin and Richard's, in Williamsburg Brooklyn, is open 24/7/365. For people in this part of the world. Expect to pay close to double but worth it, when needed
Re: Buying fittings online
Home Depot, Lowes, Supply House. Com & Pex Supply are NOT going to open at 7am on a Sunday freezing 😫 February Winter morning, so I can get our clients heat.Oh yes they are
And they're open until 10pm, staffed by local hardworking folks just like mom and pop
Re: Buying fittings online
Chris...I Live 1/2 a mile from the City line, just inside Nassau County. Work in the 5 Boros of NYC & All the Way To Montauk and up in to The Hudson Valley during a typical week.Mad, my PM is open any time you want to send a message, you know that.
Chris,, I've seen the Mom & Pop Supply houses in this great Megalopolis disappear over the last 30 years. Some deserved to..But most were victim to The Average American that SALIVATES over a "deal." Price shopping is a Religion to them. These types do not care about buying local, Made In USA, or supporting The Backbone of The American Economic Miracle of the last 200 years...The Small Business. I am very careful about how I spend my personal and Business $$$. I always give my two mom & pop supply houses first crack...and they always come Through . Home Depot, Lowes, Supply House. Com & Pex Supply are NOT going to open at 7am on a Sunday freezing 😫 February Winter morning, so I can get our clients heat. The Economic and intrinsic value in that?? PRICELESS!!
How Capitalism works? Ha ha 😂 🤣 😆 😄 😅 Anytime you'd like to be edified on Keynesian Theory vis-a-vis Milton Friedman and Frederich Hayek's Road To Serfdom, PM me. PEACE ON EARTH...Mad Dog
ChrisJ
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Re: Where do you buy your little electrical fittings?
Heh.The only company who has more of my money than Kline is Fluke.but that's just one meter
I was using my BX strippers once, it wasn't until I was wirenutting the feeders into the light that I found out the circuit was hot... They're also nice when you're working with the old steel stuff.
ratio
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