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Injection Mixing for In-Floor with Baseboards

I'm replacing a 30year old boiler with a LAARS FTF. The system utilizes baseboard and in-floor concrete radiant. The copper riser from the horizonal supply and companion G-1558 are designed to inject return water Lleft riser) with hot boiler output (Right). My question-

"Without a check valve on the L-Riser, won't the main supply receive cool return all the time and dilute the boiler output to the main supply?

Comments

  • Jamie Hall
    Jamie Hall Member Posts: 24,727

    Nice press connection work. Pity that it makes absolutely no sense at all. And a check valve isn't going to help.

    The principle is sound — and used all the time for radiant floors or the like taking their hot water supply from a primacy manifold. But. To make it work, there is a line from the return from the floor (there is also a line connecting to the primary manifold) to the cold inlet of a thermostatic mixing valve (it's nice if that can be controlled by an outdoor reset). There is a line from the primary manifold (the boiler circulation loop) to the hot inlet of the mixing valve. The output from the mixing valve goes through a pump and on to the radiant floor.

    The baseboards are their own secondary circuit, with either zone pumps or zone valves and a single pump, coming off the primary loop manifold and the returns going back to the manifold in the usual primary/secondary way.

    Br. Jamie, osb
    Building superintendent/caretaker, 7200 sq. ft. historic house museum with dependencies in New England
  • hot_rod
    hot_rod Member Posts: 23,270

    I can't see enough of the boiler piping to see what you have.

    Here is a common way to do a simple primary secondary, a mixing valve is a better way to blend down temperature. What you have would need a couple valve, one in the cross over, one on the supply. Then you adjust to get a desired temperature.

    Know as a dumb mixing concept because it has no way of knowing or adjusting output temperature. A thermostatic mix valve would, however.

    Bob "hot rod" Rohr
    trainer for Caleffi NA
    Living the hydronic dream