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You absolutely DON'T want size hydronic boilers by the size of the radiation- that would only be appropriate for a STEAM boiler. The baseboard...
Getting to the "right" heating & cooling solutions always calls for reasonably careful room by room load calculations. If you're aggressive...
Natural gas is pretty cheap in Calgary- not sure if it's quite $15/month (maybe CDN$5/month). But getting swapping out a senescent low efficiency...
I don't have any better insight as to what's confusing the controls than fitter20, but the boiler is pretty ridiculously oversized for the load,...
The priority is still air sealing and insulating the house. Yes, the stack is 24/365 parasitic load, but as a fraction of the current overall...
While it's possible to properly DIY a mod-con installation it's well beyond the design & implementation skills of most. A proper DIY...
A cup of gasoline and a match, mayhaps?:confused: The needle clusters look more like pine than fir, which for most species would mean higher...
It's tough dealing with those issues in a rental- I've lived in apartments that were in that range of air & heat leakiness too, and it sucks. For...
Installed any humidifers in Florida lately? :) Adding whole-house humidifers to residential fossil-fired furnace or heat pump systems is mostly a...
No, do NOT install a new humidifier! Humidifiers are only necessary for human comfort & health in extremely air-leaky or intentionally...
If I can share one of the pictures you showed me in the message board, those "...potential leaks..." and the conductive losses from the...
That looks right to me! Yes, it's nothing like a slam-dunk no brainer type of investment, especially in light of the coming (already beginning,...
Maybe, but making the kids start paying for the gas bill (now that they are legal adults and employed) or adjusting the time-out on the occupancy...
The fixed service fee is NOT $85- that's the cost of the first 50 therms. Almost all houses with an oil-fired Sys 2K is heating the the domestic...
The minimum legal efficiency is 82%. While many gas-burners will hit 85% efficiency, with time and de-tuning (how often do gas valves in boilers...
