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Oana
5 years ago
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Comments (1)Raising water temps is one way to get more heat out of less baseboard. 160-190 comes to mind. Hot water heat is the most comfortable form of heat ever invented and you will soon love it. The boiler probably maintains a certain low limit temperature, usually 160 degrees. Some have cold start boilers, but let's stick with the most common. When the tstat calls for heat, the burner and circulator will start. The burner will run until the boiler water reaches it's high limit of, usually 180 degrees. At high limit, the circulator will continue to run until the boiler temperature goes below 180 degrees and the burner will restart shortly thereafter. This is called "running off the high limit". If the boiler water never reaches high limit, the burner will run continuously until the thermostat is satisfied. If you have a domestic hot water coil in the boiler and the boiler water temperature goes below the low limit because the burner can't keep up, the circulator will stop, the burner will continue to run until the boiler water get above the low limit, whereupon the circulator will restart. This keeps enough hot water in the boiler for the coil. This is called "running off the low limit". Your boiler may cycle without a call for heat, just to keep the water temp above the low limit for the domestic coil. A good explanation of how an aquastat controls a boiler, google Honeywell L8124A, or L8148A for cold start boilers, or L7224A/L7248A....See MoreHELP me choose a natural gas chimney vented boiler
Comments (3)Your plumber giving you the load based upon the amount of radiation is actually ok. You will get X amount of btu/ft of radiation. If that has been heating the house then ok. In fact, if the house has been warm then the boiler may as well be sized to the amount of radiation. Anything more is excess capacity. I had a Buderus G224 with their outdoor reset program, which you want, for 12 years and it was excellent. I'd take a Buderus over the others. Undrstand that your chimney is an issue. You say it is not lined. In order to use a "chimney" unit you will have to put an appropriate sized liner installed in your masonry chimney. The staight masonry chimney will not meet the code. You don't want a direct vent or a higher efficiency unit and I understand your reasoning, BUT. Consider the cost of the liner for your current chimney to bring it up to code. Add that to the boiler install cost and I think you will be in the price range of a wall hung condensing modulating boiler. The efficiency of which will be 95-96% vs your proposed 80-82%. BTW the outdoor reset system will vary the output temp of the boiler as the outdoor temp changes. You do not need the same output temp on a 45* day as you need at a 10* day. If your contractor says your current chimney is ok, he is wrong....See MorePlease help me find crown molding/baseboard/trim for my renovation!
Comments (15)Those pictures are of farmhouse style? Really? They look kind of froufrou to me, and in my book, farmhouses are simple, modest, utilitarian structures. But maybe now that traditional farms are pretty much dead, "farmhouse" is just another label for whatever some highly-paid interior designer thinks looks "traditional." I'm with the rest of the crew here. With 8' ceilings, that's no mansion you have there. Trying to make it look like one with fancy crown molding will just make it look like a parody of one. I say let your house be what its architect meant it to be. But that's just my opinion. It's your house, and if crown molding makes you happy, why not? I'd suggest the narrowest, simplest molding you can find. If the the next person who buys your house doesn't like it, they can always pry it off and patch the holes....See Moreplease help me choose a baseboard
Comments (9)Tina I’m facing the same, shoe Moulding is used to cover the gap/shadow between the base Moulding and the flooring. The gap is caused by unevenness in the floors so as an example my house is 100 years old and there was no way we would completely avoid that. I can see the gap/shadow in places as the new floors and Moulding are in, I could live with it but it’s likely we’ll get shoe From what I’ve seen shoe options are limited in look, but not so much that there’s only one option. Here is the shoe we’ll likely use, one of the few I saw that didn’t have that round look https://www.gardenstatelumber.com/mouldings/mcs1-modern-shoe/...See MoreOana
5 years ago
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