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Baseboard Adventures

HeatingHelp
HeatingHelp Administrator Posts: 680
edited August 2023 in THE MAIN WALL
imageBaseboard Adventures

Most houses have too much baseboard and that means that, if you size the new boiler to the actual heat loss of the house, the folks will be able to run that boiler at a lower temperature on most days.

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H2OBandit603

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  • Tractor
    Tractor Member Posts: 1
    Brilliant
  • Larry Weingarten
    Larry Weingarten Member Posts: 3,597
    Hmmm, I wonder if that original installer of way too much baseboard could have helped remedy the job by replacing some of that finned tube with plain (maybe even insulated) copper pipe? This way he could have encouraged more of those British BTUs to get off towards the end of the line. :o Then he'd have more of his favorite material around for the next job. o:)

    Yours, Larry
    H2OBandit603
  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 16,479
    edited August 2023
    LOL. i was sub for a Mechanical contractor. They guy he had running the job was not the best. He put the sheet metal jacket on the boiler and sent the CI cleanout covers back to the shop because he didn't know what they were for. 'he found out when the paint burned off the jacket.

    When they started the heat up the place wouldn't heat. This was a brand-new bank. All the baseboard was turned 90 degrees.

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