Welcome! Here are the website rules, as well as some tips for using this forum.
Need to contact us? Visit https://heatinghelp.com/contact-us/.
Click here to Find a Contractor in your area.

Boiler Mate WH-7L

Tim Potter
Tim Potter Member Posts: 273
in THE MAIN WALL
I recently purchased an additional property that will be using for short term Ski House rentals at Winter Park Ski Colorado.



The Heating is radiant in-floor (Gyp & Concrete) & has a Boilermate WH-7L indirect. It appears to have the original indirect watermaker, and if it is, it would have been installed in the late 90's so its 15 to 17 years old (I think).

The serial #: " BM 167814 BZ" if anyone knows how to translate.



I am going to have to do some modifications similar to what we did 4 years ago to our original WP house, where we had a high temp non-condensing boiler hooked to the in-floor tubing. The solution then was to install a buffer tank & a Tekmar 361 Injection control. The existing watermaker was a WHS-80 installed in 2003, and is working well (knock on wood)



My question is:

Am I running on borrowed time with the WH-7

Should I kill 2 birds with 1 stone & install a Turbomax Rev Indirect (Thinking model 44) as a watermaker & Buffer



Thank You in advance for commenting



Tim
Winter Park, CO & Arvada, CO

Comments

  • Steve Whitbeck
    Steve Whitbeck Member Posts: 669
    Tank

    When the water inside the tank has been up to setpoint temperature for at least a day and You touch the top of the tank is it warm. If it is the inner liner is bad and the entire unit has to be replaced. If it is room temperature it is OK. I prefer the HTP Superstor myself.
  • Paul Pollets
    Paul Pollets Member Posts: 3,663
    Blue Atom Bombs

    These units have a high failure rate and low recovery rates. I use either an NTI Trin n Stor or Viessmann Vitocell 300 when replacing.
  • Tim Potter
    Tim Potter Member Posts: 273
    The answer is,,,,,,,, It depends....

    Thank You for the input guys,



    Steve, The bottle seems intact, cool to the touch,



    Paul, I take it you are not a fan, I've read here on the wall others with the same opinion.



    When we bought our original house in '09, the WHS-80 had been replaced (no clue as to why) & has a 2003 date on it so I felt comfortable keeping it & adding the Boiler Buddy 80 to buffer the load. Our common wall neighbor still to theis day has his original WH-7L. Being that the 2 Boilermates are of 2 different designs, I just was not sure of the durability of the poly bottle. Seems like a good idea in theory....



    Tim
    Winter Park, CO & Arvada, CO

Categories