Steam to Hot water conversion

Joey B

I have an old Steam oil boiler (45 Years young) on a two family 3 story house. The house was renovated a couple of years ago, by the previous owner. during the renovation they removed all of the radiators and installed copper Slant/Fin in every room. My desired is to convert this sytem to hot water when I replace the boiler.

To do this I'm planing to run two pipes one 3/4 and 1" for the feed and return from the basement to the attic and make all branch not loop connections. Will I have any problems with air if the branchs go up and down from the attic to the 2 floor?

Al Letellier_9

steam to water conversion

?????????they installed copper SlantFin and it's still steam??? Something doesn't ring right on the way you described your system. I don't follow what you have in mind to do, so I can only recommend that you get a heating professional in there to look things over. Wish I could help more, and I know that "telling the story" is not always easy, but I'm just not sure of what you have or are trying to describe. Good luck.

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Yingo

Thanks for the reply.
It does sound strange, but these are regular hot water radiators on steam. not efficient, they get cool as soon as the boiler goes off. I have had some prfessionals come by and most suggest to install cast iron radiators as an easy fix. but I rather convert to hot water for easy zoning. I have created a possible plan see drawing.