Radiant Heating uneven

Nov 17, 2020 Last reply: 5 years ago 26 Replies

That's what I meant. Not that one gets that at the closing or anything, but that the first owner or a non-attached house gets them.

3rd owner and I have all the plans for mine - but the plans don't have things like framing details - or wiring or mechanical. They are done "to fit" by the contractors.

I think you need a bleeder valve at the high point of the system to burp the air. One on the "out" side of the pump would be a good start. The auto-fill valve of the boiler will pressurize the system and as it circulates the air will vent from the pump. Mabee even on the inlet - being preassurized.

Yes, I realize that now. The first owner of the house was from Louisiana, and he was always cold here, even though maryland is hardly the coldest state in the country. He laid additional walls over 3 of his bedroom walls, including the one in back of the closets next to the attached house next door.

In doing so he covered the phone jack. He did this in 1979 or 80. Did they even have cordless phones then, or did he just not have a phone in his room.

So I wanted to find the phone jack without digging too much. Eventually I went to neighbors, who I barely knew, and asked to see their master bedrooms! And between the first two, I think the jacks were 2 feet apart. So I ended up running a phone line from the basement, up the stack to the attic (by drilling a hole through the floor of the stack between the first and second floors and then snaking the wire though), through the ceiling of the closet and along the baseboard to the shelf near my bed. And that's what I used for 20 years. It would have saved a lot of trouble if he had marked where the jack was, or the blueprints had shown it.

His walls were sheet rock with either insulation or cork underneath. He brought the two** electric outlets out to the surface, but I guess the phone didn't concern him. **There are two more on an interior wall.

He did great work on the yard, with berry bushes, rose bushes, two apple trees, an arbor vitae, two pines, another fir trees, and lots of firbushes. All in a small end-of-group townhouse hard.

He worked for Social Security and he got them to transfer him back to Louisiana.

I told him he didn't have to clean out the house and anything he didn't want to take, he could leave and I'd use it gratefully or take it to Goodwill. He left books about gardening, some simple gardening tools, a college Spanish text, and quite a few other things.

When I was about 9, we kept blowing a fuse and my mother called an electrician. He did for the electric what you're suggesting for the heat. Unscrewed one fuse at a time to see which was for which circuit.

Hey, I could have done that. So could my mother, and I think she realized it. I wouldn't say I was embarrassed -- I didn't say a word

-- but I think that's when I resolved to do my own repairs. And she let me, even when I was 12.

On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 15:14:11 -0800 (PST), ArghArgh posted for all of us to digest...

Did the fellow come out Wednesday and find the problem? You sure the pressure regular is working, the expansion tank, airscoop?

On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 15:37:23 -0500, Tekkie© posted for all of us to digest...

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I am curious as to the status of the issue.

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