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why does it take so long to heat
another professional hack job, what ever happened to the basics, i think this guy was asleep during piping 101
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As an electrician I am more concerned with the electrical panel clearance with the copper pipe in front of it, hacked wiring and the flue pipe next to it
With only one zone do you need the flow check?
Burner fires, boiler would reach low limit. Circ would start sending cold water right to the probe bringing the temp back under low limit shutting the circ back off.
Ran all winter last year this way.
The flue pipe and panel and wiring . No Good And @JUGHNE is correct, one zone, no tankless...no need for a flowcheck
I see this all the time people don't know what a flocheck is for. Some put them on every job .....just because
Flipped the pump around and it work fine.
and yes your right the pump is pumping away from the tank,
but i think this is not what true pumping away is sir????
think about it in your minds eye!!!!
If there is a tankless coil, in use, Ed didn't catch that. If not, there is no reason for a flowchek. The change to 1", provided the circ will handle the added head, amounts to a change in velocity in that section of pipe, only.
The expansion tank is mounted on the boiler return and the pump is on the supply pumping away. READ the Weil McLain literature and you will find that they show this exact method of piping in their installation manual for years.
I don't see a tankless heater. If there is no tankless heater you DO NOT need a flow check. Do you know what a Flowcheck does?? It stops gravity flow. That's its only purpose (unless you have multiple zones) People that don't know what a flocheck does put them on every job.
Why on earth would you want to stop gravity flow with only one zone and no tankess. Do you want to keep heat trapped in the boiler??
The pipe size has to do with flow and is based on the boilers btu output. What size boiler is it 3 or 4 section?
Check your baseboard. 1" pipe will handle 80,000btu/hour. That means you can handle about 133 feet of baseboard. Got more than that??
I think everyone was under the mistaken belief, that you posted, trying to come up with reasons why it took so long to heat. That's the way the forum works. The input from many can usually solve a problem. If people post that they don't think something is causing a problem and you disagree........that should lead to discussion, not nastiness.
a diverter tee, monoflow, one pipe system whatever you wan't to call it is not a primary secondary system