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ITSA70
ITSA70 Member Posts: 1
in Oil Heating

2 Story home with basement. Want to add heat in basement. 1st & 2nd floor diverter tees (Monoflow) are 1" x 1/2". Do i need to use 1" x 3/4" to go down to baseboards in basement as well as diverter tee's on the down and up in the main line?

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  • mattmia2
    mattmia2 Member Posts: 10,950

    What type of emitters are existing in the house? Are the baseboards you are adding copper fin tube? There are a lot of ways that modifying the existing monoflo system can throw it out of balance.

  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 16,485

    Leave the first and 2d floor alone. Cut a new supply and return in near the boiler and put the basement on its own zone with its own circulator. Otherwise, your headed for trouble

    mattmia2epmiller

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