2 weeks of neglect, sorry
cyberspace. There are many boring excuses but instead I will jump right in and tell you about our heat
since I am enjoying it right now and it is super cold outside.
Our first plumber did not
know about boiler installation, and I doubt very much that he knew much about basic
plumbing because he left a bunch of concrete in my floor drain. He was not
asked to return. Those 2 following winters were freezing. We would wake up with
ice in our night water. The damper was not installed correctly and so it kept
shutting off the whole system because there was not enough air flow.
Seth had offered to fix
the system even though he was also, not a professional HVAC guy, but he was
smart and willing to figure it out. This was not the most efficient way to fix
our heating system but it is damn near impossible to get any reputable HVAC guy
out in the middle of December. So Seth did his research, called on his friends
and did his best to cobble together a manifold. It worked for the first night,
and then the second night it shut off. He was kind enough to come and troubleshoot
it at 10pm because he didn’t want us to freeze. He got it back on, but there
were still issues.
Luckily it was only 2
more months of super cold and then the melting rain of March came around and we
forgot all about the heat until this fall. I turned on the thermostat for
practice in September and realized I would have to find a real HVAC guy,
pronto. Going off a recommendation from a master plumber I had to fortune of
working with an honest company that was able to fix the vent in less than an
hour and it hasn’t turned off since.
I was also informed that
my system would mostly likely need to be re run in 1.5 or 2 inch iron for the
first branch that would feed the rest of the house. Once it was explained to me
it made perfect sense, the boiler is trying to release all the pressure it is
creating and was choked up because the supply and return lines were run in .75
or .5 which is half the size they should be. Course to re run all the lines
will be a huge project and not one to start in the middle of winter, so remind
me in the summer time to remember the snow!
