Plans finally coming together

[Medic21]

Hope to have this finished, mounted, primary loop hooked up, and filled tomorrow.


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[Medic21]

Ready for inside plumbing

Fill line

Added outside faucet.




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[Medic21]

It’s alive and making hot water.

No load on it. Fired it to expand the water out and “boil” dissolved oxygen out. Will add additive first of the week and shut her back down.

Burns very clean for a non gasser and I’m stoked. Bring on winter.


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[Medic21]

I will be ready to roll Friday if nothing changes.

 

[maple1]

No heat exchanger? Or is there one at the boiler?

 

[Medic21]

No heat exchanger? Or is there one at the boiler?

The heat exchangers will be at each zone. One plate for domestic hot water on the first zone. The second pump will go to the heat exchanger in the plenum for the house then to a 30,000btu hanging heater in the basement. The third when I install that will be a 50,000 btu hanging heater in the garage with a bypass to a 130,000 btu exchanger for the pool. Completely open system.

This is way over built for flow from the outdoor boiler. I had too many exchangers to run in series and have anything left at the end and running two line sets 100 feet would have been less cost effective than one 1 1/4” ID Thermopex with a 26-99 pump for the primary loop and 15-58 pumps on the secondary zones.

 

[maple1]

Ah ok, was thinking hydronic system, not hot air.

 

[Medic21]

Ah ok, was thinking hydronic system, not hot air.

I may add that to my upstairs later. It’s the typical old farm house that the upstairs stays colder.

 

[Medic21]

Finished install. Had a hiccup with a bad 26-99 pump that got warranted. System is filled and bled.

on a 48hr shift and I’ll start batch burning Monday for hot water. Looks like heating at night will start next week. I’ll post a review in the next month. Excited to see how this will go.

 

[brenndatomu]

Holy copper cave batman!
You must have a fortune in that...and enough soldering hours to be a journeyman plumber! Looks like nice work!

 

[Medic21]

Holy copper cave batman!
You must have a fortune in that...and enough soldering hours to be a journeyman plumber! Looks like nice work!

believe it or not when buying 20’ sticks of type L copper it’s actually only about 30%-50% more over pex. The valves are cheaper, the fittings are actually cheaper for copper than the brass in pex. Sweat valves, unions, and other fixtures are cheaper than pex or FPT with fittings

It was only 2lbs of solder and 3 B tanks of acetylene.

I learned how to sweat pipe when I was 12 or 13 because dad and grandpa couldn’t fit under grandmas bathroom. I had fun.

 

[sloeffle]

Nice looking install. I'm sure it will be nice to have all of the mess outside too.

 

[Medic21]

Nice looking install. I'm sure it will be nice to have all of the mess outside too.

The number one reason I did this project. I’ll sleep better at night and feel more comfortable when I go to work not worrying About burning down the house.

 

[brenndatomu]

Yeah probably doesn't reflect real well when a FD member burns his house down!
Of course just getting rid of a certain "fire hazard" would have to help mitigate that risk a lot ...

 

[salecker]

The number one reason I did this project. I’ll sleep better at night and feel more comfortable when I go to work not worrying About burning down the house.

That's the number one reason my heating system lives in it's own building.
No chance of carbon monoxide poisoning
Volunteer fire department.
And last but not least,no insurance

 

[Medic21]

It’s running, 89 degrees out today with a high of 64 Friday. I am making hot water for the house. Plan on batch burning until it’s needed for heat in the next 2 weeks. I will probably turn AC off Thursday night.

 

[Mrpelletburner]

Just checking in... how is the new setup working out?

 

[Medic21]

Just checking in... how is the new setup working out?

really well. There is enough hot copper in the basement no heater will be needed down there. It’s hard to keep it lit right now because it goes so long between needing to run.