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I had a home energy review done during a renovation a few years back that included a mini split implementation design by a Mitsubishi cooling engineer. However, it is contradictory to everything I have read here about microzoning or oversizing. Does anyone have any opinions on the design or how...

Is it permissible to run a line set up the exterior wall of a house, into the soffit, across a bay of the second floor ceiling, then down an interior wall about 2' to where the indoor unit would be mounted? Condensate drainage isn't an issue, just want to make sure the line set routing will be OK.

I'm in the process of adding a second floor onto my 1954 cape and would like to add AC to the house via mini splits. The research I've done so far as well as the estimates I've received has left me with a design showing the following: First unit (2 heads): Upstairs master bedroom (200sqft, 9'...

I bought 80' of cast Weil McLain No. 9 Snug baseboard this weekend to use on my second floor expansion. Most of it is disassembled into individual pieces. I need to take it down to be sandblasted for paint prep and then prep it for reassembly. Is there a best practice to cleaning the sections...

Is there a specific purpose that the zone for the tank is the first zone on the feed side and the last zone on the return side?

I have a Burnham Alpine 150 with a Taco 0014-F1 as the system pump on the primary loop as spec'd in the install manual. The pump is approximately 2 years old. In the past week or so the pump has become louder. It sounds like a buzzing that is consistent and is louder than all 4 Taco 007 zone...

I have a Burnham Alpine 150 with a Burnham 50 gal IHW tank piped off of the secondary loop using 1" copper. The tank has priority. My question is should I be tweaking the max fan speed on calls for hot water so that the boiler only cycles once for as long as needed each time the tank calls for...

I purchased my ranch in July of 2010. In October I noticed some standing water on the lawn when it hadn't rained for a while. I figured it was a hole in the water main. So I dug about a 5 foot trench down the length of the pipe to find the hole and patch it. Upon reaching the main I found that...