Recent content by Taylorjm

I agree with that. The play on words is when they say it's 250% efficient.

Exactly. It's a play on numbers. They are using the electric water heater as a baseline to justify saying the heat pump is this unrealistic percent of efficiency. Where like you said, if it takes 2.5kwh to heat a 40gal electric WH, and the heat pump uses 1kwh to heat the same amount of...

I can understand that an electric water heater is 100% efficient, because there's no exhaust up the flue to lose anything, but now your saying because a heat pump is transferring heat from outside to inside, it's consuming less electricity to produce $1.00 worth of heat? I don't think that's...

How is a heatpump heater 200-300% efficiency? Doesn't that mean it's actually producing more electricity than it uses?

So I'm guessing the first tank is the backwashing filter you mentioned, but did you change anything to help with the iron issue? H2O2 injection or anything? I see the spin down filter is orange, so you have quite a bit of iron, but you don't seem to have any kind of sediment filter before the...

Wish I could help you but have you tried the salt blocks for a water softener? I think I've seen 50lb blocks instead of the crystals. I'm not sure if you are actually using crystals, or the pellets. I've only used the pellets for years and never had an issue. I could see if there are smaller...

So I will tell you what I did. Our water is very hard at 60 gpg, but we also had .089ppm of Manganese, and 4.16 PPM of iron. I installed a hydrogen peroxide pump and injector that activates with our well pump and is injected before the pressure tank. Then there's a catalytic carbon...

I would go with the Zoeller. I've installed a few liberty models and they work good, but are difficult to get set to the right height and take up a lot of room in the sump pit.

I have the cimmaron and the elmbrook and I'm happy with both of them. Haven’t clogged up yet.

Install a permeate pump. It made a big difference with ours. No electricity needed. At least until I decided to build my own ro filter system using a procon pump to increase pressure on the membrane to about 110psi and set the outgoing pressure to 60psi. The only downside is the carbonator...

Plumbers that use uphonor seem to be part of one big cult. Replacing leaking pipes and repiping with the same brand product? I mean, where else would that happen? I can't understand why anyone would keep using a product that has been known to leak and the company has been paying for...

I don’t think I follow you. The fin tubes use 3/4”. The kickspace heaters are 1/2”. I can’t just pipe in the kickspace heaters. I need the 180 deg water because this is a very large main floor zone and in northern Michigan it can get pretty cold. 180 is what they normally run at here. To put...

So we are going to be remodeling the kitchen and we have to remove about 15' of slant fin baseboard. I'm going to replace it with a hydronic kickspace heaters. I have two of them, one will put out about 3500btu and the other about 6000btu. Because of the new kitchen layout 2 would fit...

I would use 1” pex in a heartbeat. I used a lot of it at my well and pressure tank, filters and softeners and it’s great, but I used the straight lengths, not the coiled. The oxygen barrier only comes in 5’ straight lengths instead of 10’ and not sure I want to put in a pex coupler to reach my...

Yeah. A couple places are right by a bundle of electrical and insulation, which is why I was looking at pex. I’ve seen the less expensive hydraulic manual propress tools online. Maybe I’ll go that route.