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Simply Rad
Simply Rad Member Posts: 192
edited February 12 in Radiant Heating

I saw this in a mechanical room last week. 

Jeffrey Campbell

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  • Simply Rad
    Simply Rad Member Posts: 192
    edited February 12

    Forgot the picture:

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    Jeffrey Campbell
    Long Beach Ed
  • clammy
    clammy Member Posts: 3,156
    Awesome ,some one will live with it ,happy it ain’t me . I guess be happy the sheet rock hides the rest of there handy work most likely just as well thought out ,planned and executed as the placement and running of the pex and the manifold placement .
    Can’t really say much more but as things go ,nothing I see even makes me bat an eye it’s just a well isn’t that special and leave it at that and move on . It’s better that way then to rock the boat as long as it works isn’t that what really matters . These days I think quality and craftmanship of the work really only matters in what people see in there face not the stuff behind doors that only matters when it don’t work plain and simple .
    Get the blinders like an Amish horse .
    Peace and good luck clammy

    R.A. Calmbacher L.L.C. HVAC
    NJ Master HVAC Lic.
    Mahwah, NJ
    Specializing in steam and hydronic heating

    realliveplumberIntplm.
  • hot_rod
    hot_rod Member Posts: 23,270
    A pex panel radiator. Certainly the pex fitting dealers like seeing that :)

    A couple inverted manifolds would have saved maybe 100' of pex and a few dozen ells and expansion collars.

    Not to mention the additional pressure drop.
    Bob "hot rod" Rohr
    trainer for Caleffi NA
    Living the hydronic dream
    Long Beach Ed
  • Long Beach Ed
    Long Beach Ed Member Posts: 1,309
    edited February 13
    Just imagine how much worse it could have been done... Do you think there's miles of it coiled up atop the Sheetrok?
    GGross
  • realliveplumber
    realliveplumber Member Posts: 354
    One hundred and eighty degrees. Thats all it would have taken.......
  • realliveplumber
    realliveplumber Member Posts: 354
    A half a turn. All he had to do was rotate the manifolds counter clockwise a half a turn......
  • EdTheHeaterMan
    EdTheHeaterMan Member Posts: 9,312
    I wonder if this might work just as well?

    But you could not clock as many hours as this

    So somebody made some extra money here. And they are probably very proud of their work.

    Edward Young Retired

    After you make that expensive repair and you still have the same problem, What will you check next?

    realliveplumberGGrossDJDrew
  • realliveplumber
    realliveplumber Member Posts: 354
    Exactly. Sometimes people cant see the trees through the forest.
  • Alan (California Radiant) Forbes
    Alan (California Radiant) Forbes Member Posts: 4,212
    I’ll bet those horizontal pipes sag when they’re hot. 
    8.33 lbs./gal. x 60 min./hr. x 20°ΔT = 10,000 BTU's/hour

    Two btu per sq ft for degree difference for a slab
  • rick in Alaska
    rick in Alaska Member Posts: 1,463
    Well, I believe some of the manufacturers don't want there manifolds installed upside down, so if you have actuators installed, they don't get potentially leaked on. If that was me though, I would probably have used some of the old Heat Link track and just made big loops in the piping instead of all those fittings.
    Rick
  • psb75
    psb75 Member Posts: 900
    At least they used Uponor expansion fittings. Those are closest to actual .5" ID.

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