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steam radiation

Big Ed_4
Big Ed_4 Member Posts: 3,019
You can add a TRV valve to the vent on the radiator to throttle it down....
Make sure you boiler is big enough to supply the extra radiation.

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  • World Plumber
    World Plumber Member Posts: 389
    Radiation size

    Thinking about adding heat to back rooms. Looking at the heat loss the radiators are slightly over double the heat loss rating in the rest of the house. Would it be wise to continue this sizing method. If I match the load will I have cold rooms with the others oversized?
  • Jamie Hall
    Jamie Hall Member Posts: 24,848
    the real trick

    and it isn't all that easy is to make sure that the radiation available in each space being heated is in the same ratio to the heat loss from that space in each room in the house -- that is, if the radiator in, say, the living room appears to be twice as big as it needs to be, but the radiators in all the other rooms are also twice as big as they need to be, all will be well (steam does an amazing job of self-balancing). However... if you have twice as much radiation in one room as you need, and the rest of the house is just as much as necessary, then that one room will be too hot (conversely, if it's half as much it will be too cold, etc.).
    The calculations for heat loss from each room aren't that hard -- just tedious.
    Have fun!
    Br. Jamie, osb
    Building superintendent/caretaker, 7200 sq. ft. historic house museum with dependencies in New England
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