Lou, you hook this fella up.
You offered the great advice on how $6k would do it.
Get him out of this jamb.
You can entice me into a really productive debate on why the Buderus condenses and why your a better thumb wrestler too while your at it.
Problem not resolved.
You gave him the go ahead with a $6k budget to buy a $3,500 boiler and install radiant.
I am fairly confident that he had already ripped his home apart and did not do so on my advisingHe effectively proceeded to remove his current heating system & rip apart his home in full confidence.
Right I get that part. Unless I missed the boat this usually happens at around 140-135 degrees, so 155 is still 15 degrees above that point. While some gas may condense out in the flue the boiler is not actively condensing. But hey maybe I am all wrong.Condensing, by the way, refers to the exhaust...the heat removed from the expelled gas is so great that it causes vaporized liquid to re-condense, you just made the argument.
Steam is created at 210...think, think hard.
Buderus's max temp is 196 for the DHW, by the way.
Absoluty correct. In fact if they did not condense there would be a hell of a problem in the venting department as the excedssive temperature melted the silicone gaskets.
Good mornin Lou I agree about Keyspan, they have us by the nuts, its a monopoly. So no I dont trust them. So I have the baseboards here, for free. Pex wont cost much to hook them up. So the money I save on the radiant idea I should put it towards a more effecient unit, correct?
hhhmmm, man, sounds like I screwed up or what? The reason i removed the radiators and pipes were because
1-) No installation in the walls behind rads
2-) system was old.
3-) Someone told me its an old steam system, they arent effecient at all ( agreed to this becuase I saw the oil I was using). the system had black steel pipes. I thought these pipes were only used for steam, I never saw someone else's house with black pipes, always copper. so I thought they were useless as well.
Hey grumpy, so unf I screwed up. I would like to use Pex instead of copper which will save me money as well. At least I have the burnhams I can use. When you talk about the layout and design. Do you mean size of rooms, location of rooms, location of windows and size of windows?
Hey grumpy, so unf I screwed up. I would like to use Pex instead of copper which will save me money as well. At least I have the burnhams I can use. When you talk about the layout and design. Do you mean size of rooms, location of rooms, location of windows and size of windows?
guys, will my rads keep a tiled floor warm as well? Thats why I wanted to put radiant in the first place. I dont want cold tiles!
This is awkward, but...
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