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Small radiant job

Frank_28
Frank_28 Member Posts: 1
in THE MAIN WALL
I have a small bedroom above a garage,over the summer I installed radiant heat in the floor joists and am now looking for a boiler or water heater just for that zone.The room has a 4500btu heatloss and the garage is equipt with gas.Running a zone off the existing boiler is not an option,its on the other side of the house and the basement is finished.Also it must be vented through the side wall and be quiet I need my beauty sleep.I am willing to oversize the boiler for future load if that helps,but I would rather just have something for that zone. Can you suggest something its getting cold.

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  • Dave_13
    Dave_13 Member Posts: 110
    How about.......

    A small Munchkin wall hung..... or maybe a HWH if you are not going to expand on the system and it is legal in your part of the country. Where are you from????
  • Dale
    Dale Member Posts: 1,317
    elect water heater

    If you know the zone is only 4500 btu and this at worst case design conditions why not just use a little elect water heater with the usual 4500 watt, 15,350 btu input? The things are so cheap you could always go to gas if the load got bigger, all the other components would be the same. Hot Rod who often posts here shows examples of where he has done this. I don't remember what max heat loss he used before going to gas. If you do use a water heater add the 30 psi relief and leave the other relief in place.
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