what would you say?

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the steam zone is prioritized ? You can give the homeowner what he wants - all the zones working at the same time - if you install a bypass in the baseboard zones . Tempering down that water when the boiler is steaming away is a must .

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what would you say?

I installed a Burnham steam boiler with 2 zones of baseboard. The boiler was sized to the rads & the pick up factor was plenty to cover the 20,000 btuh addition. The baseboard zones are ran off an aquastat to insure that steam would not flash in the baseboard loops. The boiler is piped correct with drop headers & everything else. I suggested a seperate hot water boiler or hot water heater/ heating combo unit. The client declined and opptioned for just having the baseboard off the steam in spite of me expaining that he couldn't run them both @ the same time. Now he doesn't like it and is blaming me. The house does heat. He just doesn't like letting the steam satisfy before turning on the baseboard & vise-versa. Everything is piped & wired to spects. Any suggestions ?

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I did install a bypass line. I connected the return to the the supply. Initially it wasn't wired with priority at first, so steam would operate and the circulators would come on at the same time. But even with the bypass, steam eventually would hammer in the pumps. So it was rewired to priority.
thanks

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this is how it's piped minus all the circs, strainers, flow controls, & valves

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Which model

Burnham is it ? And can you tell us how you piped the supply and return of the baseboard zones into the boiler ? I usually install the circ in a tapping up high ( but lower than the waterline ) , pumping into the boiler , with a flowcheck between the boiler and circ . The supply I usually pull from the boiler's drain tapping .

brucewo1b

KC

Hook up as shown in the last diagram for an indirect and adjust valves so hat no more than 180 degree water can make it to tyhe circ it should work fine

http://www.heatinghelp.com/heating_howcome6.cfm

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It's a burnham independence. There are ports on the boiler that are meant for it. In the manual it even tells you which for supply and which for return. I have the pumps on the supply pumping away.

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I've done it without a heat exchanger on smaller jobs without a problem. I think it's because there is 20,000 btu's worth that would make it worth it to repipe with it.