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Hydronic heating system?

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jvh24
jvh24 Member Posts: 1
edited January 2022 in Radiant Heating
I just purchased an old fixer upper house in Mississippi. It has pipes in the floor that supposedly send heated water through the floors. Nobody here has ever seen anything like it nor wants to work on it. I would like to get it replaced or at least functional again. The bulb looking thing is connected to it as it the bar like thing that is on the outside of the house. There a small metal plates in the floor of each room that are part of it also.   Any suggestions on getting it running again or what it even is? The 

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  • ScottSecor
    ScottSecor Member Posts: 1,015
    Looks like a roughly thirty year old hot water boiler connected to a 1950's circulating hot water system.   Could be radiant, or most likely radiators.  The sensor by the bar could be a remote sensor, typically to sense air temperature. 
    jvh24
  • ScottSecor
    ScottSecor Member Posts: 1,015
    I cannot identify the device located above the doorway. 
  • kcopp
    kcopp Member Posts: 4,604
    More pictures of the system please.
    Looks interesting...
  • hot_rod
    hot_rod Member Posts: 26,204
    Maybe that is the “hearing” part that you question in the post 😉
    Bob "hot rod" Rohr
    trainer for Caleffi NA
    Living the hydronic dream
    jvh24
  • Zman
    Zman Member Posts: 7,611
    That thing over the door looks like an older version of Nest. :D
    "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough"
    Albert Einstein
    bucksnort
  • Erin Holohan Haskell
    Erin Holohan Haskell Member, Moderator, Administrator Posts: 2,360
    hot_rod said:

    Maybe that is the “hearing” part that you question in the post 😉

    :D I fixed the typo.

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