Josh Wright
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I just had new plumbing installed in a single family in Maine. We have ice cold water coming from a well into a Amtrol WX-203 tank; 1-inch copper main to a closet which has all of our water treatment equipment. The water gets treated, goes to a 1-inch manifold and to the hot water heater.
Our problem is that it is now "raining" in the closet, and from the piping that runs to the closet.
What is the best way to solve this problem?? I don't want to just insulate the line, because that would just pass the problem to the tanks for the water filtration and Pex lines. The hot water heater is a Rinnai on-demand gas heater, so I did not think installing a tempering valve would make sense. I thought of rigging a couple of loops of baseboard radiator fins for the water to go through before the tank, but I don't know of any that are rated for potable water. I have also thought of adding heat tape, but it seems a waste of energy when I want to be actually pulling heat from the space anyways.
Thanks for any suggestions - Josh
Our problem is that it is now "raining" in the closet, and from the piping that runs to the closet.
What is the best way to solve this problem?? I don't want to just insulate the line, because that would just pass the problem to the tanks for the water filtration and Pex lines. The hot water heater is a Rinnai on-demand gas heater, so I did not think installing a tempering valve would make sense. I thought of rigging a couple of loops of baseboard radiator fins for the water to go through before the tank, but I don't know of any that are rated for potable water. I have also thought of adding heat tape, but it seems a waste of energy when I want to be actually pulling heat from the space anyways.
Thanks for any suggestions - Josh
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