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Re: Chimney liner
I don't have an answer to your question, but someone here will.@WMno57 is suggesting that someone spend some money on new equipment. I think he might be offering to pay for it too. I know he would never suggest something like that without knowing that you may not be able to afford such a luxury as to discard a perfectly good 6 month old appliance without offering his unlimited wealth for your needs.
side note: You can replace the water heater with an indirect water heater that is heated by one of the boilers, or get some type of electric water heater. Then you only have to size the chimney liner for the two boilers.
Lets all thank @WMno57 for his generosity.
Seriously... Is the WM SGO-4 boiler still fired by OIL? or has it been converted to a gas burner?
There may be some controversy as to venting two different fuels into the same chimney. Personally, I have done just that with success, but some AHJ frown on the practice
You can not use aluminum liners with Oil Fired Appliances and it appears that with the total BTU capacity listed you may need a 8" liner if you are using a flexible corrugated pipe liner. How large is the inside dimension(s) of your chimney flue?
7" non corrugated (smooth interior) pipe may be fine at 7" but you can only go up to 325,000 BTU total on 7" corrugated liners at 35 feet hight with a short horizontal from the appliances inside the boiler room.
Re: Oil boiler and outdoor Wood Boiler
If worse comes to worse, you can purchase a 55 gallon barrel of Hercules Cryo-tek-100 non toxic antifreeze to load up in your system and have the remaining antifreeze for make up fuid.
Global Industrial has it for $1,505.00 plus tax and frieght to your door, a drop gate/lift gate charge would add to the frieght cost.
Global Industrial has it for $1,505.00 plus tax and frieght to your door, a drop gate/lift gate charge would add to the frieght cost.
leonz
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Re: Short Loop, Minimal Head, Over Pumped
Funny how piping systems per the manufacturer's instructions seems to solve a lot of problems.
jesmed1
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Re: Another poor roughing in a Public Restroom
Man I can't believe how many of these public restrooms are built by DIYers!!
Re: Very Cool 😎 Urinals at a Brewery
I have both of the bathrooms in my new house that I self built. Plumbed for urinals that I'm fabricating out of minny kegs. They have a dished top. Going to use antique tappers to flush them. I came up with it outta my own head. Probably because I worked second job as a bouncer for 23 years.
Didn't know someone else was weird like me. Slightly different. But same idea. Lol.
Didn't know someone else was weird like me. Slightly different. But same idea. Lol.
mcc
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Re: Is my equalizer line OK? First steam install.
Also, street fittings are not allowed in most jurisdictions. Just nit picking.
Re: Very Cool 😎 Urinals at a Brewery
Every Plumbing and Gas product installed in MA has to be approved by the State Board. I am sure there is a lot that sneaks by.
I always thought it was a stupid rule.......but maybe not
LOL
I always thought it was a stupid rule.......but maybe not
LOL
Re: PVC Repair
I'm cheap! Did I tell you I'm cheap. This is how I would do it. I would take a piece of pipe that is long enough to cover the hole you want to drill in the pipe plus several inches on each side of the hole. I would cut the piece of pipe the same size as the pipe you want to repair length wise in half.
I would heat the the half piece of pipe and heat it with a heat gun and form it around a piece of pipe that is the size of pipe you want to patch. The heated patch should fit tightly around the pipe that you want to cover. Prime and glue the half patch onto the pipe with a hole in it and band it, if you wish, with stainless steel bands. Walla! An be sure and give it a tail light warranty. joke
I have done this before and never had a complaint, of course, all complaints are handled by my office in Budapest.
I think someone may have had this idea. hmmm
I would heat the the half piece of pipe and heat it with a heat gun and form it around a piece of pipe that is the size of pipe you want to patch. The heated patch should fit tightly around the pipe that you want to cover. Prime and glue the half patch onto the pipe with a hole in it and band it, if you wish, with stainless steel bands. Walla! An be sure and give it a tail light warranty. joke
I have done this before and never had a complaint, of course, all complaints are handled by my office in Budapest.
I think someone may have had this idea. hmmm
Re: Looking for help in south central kansas
It's as simple as looking at the flowmeters to dictate whether or not there is flow in every loop. If not, there is either an airlock or an electrical issue. Mitigate that first and see what the system does before you start cutting it apart again.
Your diagrams are very self explanatory and show exactly what would need to happen with your system. 26-99 on the primary/boiler loop pushing only through the tankless, while sucking out of and back into the secondary loop via closely spaced tees. The 15-42 can stay right where it is.
Your diagrams are very self explanatory and show exactly what would need to happen with your system. 26-99 on the primary/boiler loop pushing only through the tankless, while sucking out of and back into the secondary loop via closely spaced tees. The 15-42 can stay right where it is.
GroundUp
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Re: Are there seriously no leveling shims I can just buy?
Plastic checkers. You get to choose the color.Any color you want too.
As long as it's red or black.
ChrisJ
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