Contractors working together

John Jr

Brad, have you used these boilers before? If you did did you have any problems?

John Jr

Snow-Melt System

This is what can happen when contractors get together. This is a 27,000 sqft Snow-Melt system installed by 4 different contractors working together. It was great! I tried to do this on a job with DF but, the job never came to life.

Dan Foley

Beautiful!

Hey John,

Beautiful looking job! I'm envious. We''l work on one together one of these days.

Who worked on this with you? What is the "Vitodens" looking boiler hanging on the wall to the left of the tanks? Do you have remote manifolds? Do you have any pics of the inside of the control panel?

You guys created a showcase project. My hat's off to you. -DF

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Dan Foley

Beautiful!

Hey John,

Beautiful looking job! I'm envious. We'll work on one together one of these days.

Who worked on this with you? What is the "Vitodens" looking boiler hanging on the wall to the left of the tanks? Do you have remote manifolds? Do you have any pics of the inside of the control panel?

You guys created a showcase project. My hat's off to you. -DF

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Ted_9

wow

Nice looking job. Great work and I commend all of you for getting together to do a first class job.





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Dave Yates (PAH)

ditto

same thoughts here!

Did you have any issues with setting up the solar array prior to adding supply/return piping or was that a temp set up to orient the tubes/array? (I see they are turning their backs to the sun!) The lit indicates best install times are cloudy days or at night. Mine went in under a cloudy sky, but we still gained about 6K Btu's during the install as the circ was on a manual "on" setting.

Very, very nice work.

Unknown

Beautiful system

What an amazing job John . Did the 4 different contractors have a set part of the system to work on ?

Brad White_155

Incredible, John

Two KN-20's, solar... what are you doing for an encore?

Let me know how you like the KN's in that application if you don't mind.

What temperatures are you running them, the HX, in general the array across the board?

Beautifully laid out, neat and clean. Where is it?

John Jr

Dan

The job is located at Taco, it is the Snow-Melt system for there new warehouse facility loading dock area which is right off a street and no where to put snow.. The requirements for this system were it had to be show room quality showing off as many new products as Taco could supply. The Taco Load match program was used to design the piping layout with help from the Taco engineers. GREAT bunch of guys! Believe me when I say this it starts from the top down.

The 4 Companies for this job were Advanced Comfort Systems, Inc., JV Mechanical, Inc, Dom’s Radiant Heat, and Gronski Plumbing and Heating. I sat down and designed the snow-melt tubing layout. I than called in my good buddy Tim Doran and got his inputs and changed some things around. Once the tubing layout was nailed down I went and sat down with Vic from JV Mechanical and we came up with the Mechanical room layout. Once the job started Advanced Comfort and Dom’s Radiant heat installed the tubing I think it came out to 9.8 miles of ¾ aquapex . We use 4” HDPE for the headers. The tubing took us about 6 days to install. Once we got into the boiler room it was Advanced Comfort, JV Mechanical and Gronski Plumbing and Heating. Vic talked us into using Propress. Most of the piping was 3” and 4”. I will never ever solder anything over 2” again and I think Steve will agree with me. If we had the room all to ourselves with no one else in there I think we could have completed all the piping in 2 days. I had the control panel designed to our specifications and it came out great.

The item hanging on the wall is a Runni water heater for domestic hot water, safety showers and eye washes thru the new building with the solar as a supplement. The solar panels on the roof are Vitosol 300. The reason for two different 120gal tanks is we got one at a good deal.

After doing this project I am looking forward to try and do more like it with the rest of our group we have here in New England. There were no personality issues and all our crews got along great!

We are just about ready to fire it.

Dan, you know I am ready able and willing to do a project with you. Have truck will travel.