Recent content by joe beagle

Hello, The problem: Over the course of 15 years, my sewer line has backed up five times in my 60-year-old house. It seems to happen when rainfall exceeds one-third of an inch in one storm. The flooding comes mostly through a toilet and to a lesser extent through a laundry sink drain and the...

Dana, Thank you for your reply. You have given me a lot to think about, so I am going back to square one, redoing my heat-loss calculation, calculating my actual BTU/HDD number and then reconsidering my boiler options. In the meantime, like a lot of amateurs, I am finding it hard to...

Dana, My heat load calculation came out to 40,000 using the calculator at www.loadcalc.net. I have two zones with a total of 64 linear feet of baseboard enclosed in metal radiator type cabinets below the windows. I now have an electric water heater, which I will eventually replace with...

Hello, I am about to pull the trigger on a new boiler. I have settled on a company that appears to have a good track record and professional field rep. Wasn't the lowest price, but seems more dependable than both the highest and lowest bidders. There are currently two options: A Peerless MI-03...