Once I saw a do-it-yourself form at Home Depot that I would fill out with information I would take from measuring windows, room size, etc. and them calculate how many BTUs the new boiler should be. Where can I find something like that? Thank you
Ah,,, I'll take a shot at this.
Home Depot???
Do I win??
yes!! you win a date with this chick
You can get fromulas here,
Is this an existing system?
I immediately get a "Site Spy" warning popup when I go to that site. NOT GOOD!
And it's got more ads than Carter has liver pills.
I hate sites that try to install spyware with a purple passion.
One horsepower is only about 2542 BTU/hr. A kilowatt is almost 3413 BTU/hr. But a "boiler horsepower" is 33,479 BTU/hr.
Watch out with those BTU ratings, when converting!
The term is archaic now, but you might run into it from time to time. It's a kickback to the heyday of steam engines (locomotives), where typical efficiency was less than 8 percent. You needed to burn 33,479 BTU worth of fuel to get one horsepower-hour to the wheels. Thank God for Diesel-Electric!
Hey!! Wait a minute there Spacely Sprockets! I'm not THAT old! ;-)
But yes, HP can get quite twisted sometimes.
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I stand corrected.
I must be getting old. I'm having quite a few senior moments.
Well, not to worry.
I've heard it said that as we age, it's OK to constantly forget where you left your car keys. It's when you forget what your car keys are for,,,THAT"S when you have a problem.
-zero
Boiler?..... what kind of system hot water,radiant steam, hot water with cast iron radiators?? Most of the time there is more to consider than just the heat loss.
Unless you own a skysraper or an arena I don't think you will need to convert BTU's to horse power. You probbably only need 2-6 horsepower. I don't think cleaver brooks makes one that small(ha ha)
If you are going to reply to posts in here then please at least put a snippet of what you are replying to in your post.
Unless you have horses, then we need to know the count per head...........count the feet and divide by 4
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