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Harvey Ramer

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NYplumber

Very nice work. Keep posting these jobs.

hot_rod

Nothing wrong with that, keeps it out of harms way.
I like how you have it all the way up on the concrete, Ill bet it runs nice and quiet.
Good for you on the venting material choice also.

Picture perfect install, nice work!

bmwpowere36m3

Nice and clean… man, if more installs looked like that!

ChrisJ

Where does the condensate pump pump to?
Just curious as I don't see the hose anywhere.

Rich_49

Nice work as always Harvey .

Robert O'Brien

Very nice!!

Harvey Ramer

ChrisJ said:

Where does the condensate pump pump to?
Just curious as I don't see the hose anywhere.

If you look on the upper left of the picture you can see a 3/4" pvc pipe exiting the wall @ a 45° angle. That's where the condensate is going. Designed to prevent any freezing or ice jams.

There's no sanitary drain in the building.

@hot rod It is very quiet. You can hear it at full fire but when it modulates down you hardly can tell it's running.

EzzyT

Beautiful job. How do like those mega-press fittings?

Harvey Ramer

I like mega press. They sure come in handy. I always use a mixture of regular blk fittings and nipples and mega press keeps me from having to thread any pipe.

347

Harvey,
Its a very nice looking job. You said their is no sanitary drain in the building, where did you dump the condensate? I bidding a similar job and there is on drain to get rid of the condensate.
thanks

Tom_133

Harvey, Great job looks good! One question about the 45 degree angle, I have always wanted to do that but have always been too scared that it would freeze, have you had any freeze ups?

I am in Central Vermont so it gets stupid cold for weeks at a time (not this year though so far) and I would pipe in a wye to overflow so the boiler wouldn't shut down but the amount of condensate these boilers can produce scares me a bit.

Thanks

Tom

Harvey Ramer

Tom said:

Harvey, Great job looks good! One question about the 45 degree angle, I have always wanted to do that but have always been too scared that it would freeze, have you had any freeze ups?

I am in Central Vermont so it gets stupid cold for weeks at a time (not this year though so far) and I would pipe in a wye to overflow so the boiler wouldn't shut down but the amount of condensate these boilers can produce scares me a bit.

Thanks

Tom

I haven't had any problems.

I wouldn't do it piped gravity drain direct from the boiler though. That's just asking for trouble. The way this works is you get a whole slug of warm condensate whenever the pump runs. It can quickly and completely drain from the 45° pvc pipe to well inside the heated envelope. I try to make sure that it drains back far enough so cold air ingress through the pipe won't cause freezing. Also pipe everything with tight fittings to preserve weather-tight integrity.

Robert O'Connor_12

nice looking job