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rfish
Citizen
Username: Rfish
Post Number: 2
Registered: 4-2001
| | Posted on Monday, December 27, 2004 - 2:12 pm: | 
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Hi All,
I was reviewing the messages and a lot seem to be about boilers and heating. Four years ago when we purchase our house, I read on the forum here about a book called: The Lost Art of Steam Heating by Dan Holohan (www.heatinghelp.com). It's a great book and teaches you more than you ever want to know about taking care of one pipe and two pipe steam systems. A good section on buying boilers for those in need.
The continuing problem that I have, is that the upstairs bedrooms get super hot, while the downstairs stays comfortable. I've put small valves from Gordon's on some of radiators and used vari-vents on others to try to tune the system (trying to be careful, so as not to unbalance the system and get water hammer). It would seem that I would want small valves upstairs and big valves downstairs, but this seem contrary to what everyone is telling me.
Any ideas ?
Another issue I have is that on the long return in the basement, some cost saver, removed the main air vent and plugged it.
Regards,
Rich
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gj1
Citizen
Username: Gj1
Post Number: 95
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 27, 2004 - 3:14 pm: |
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rfish - I had the same issue with the second floor getting extremely hot (80+) when the first floor was around 65 degrees. The colder it was outside, the more extreme the temperature difference.
Contrary to most of the vent pamphlets I've seen, I ended up with something like you suggest:
Most of my first floor rooms already had No. D vents. I replaced them with same and changed the sun room from a C to a D as it was always a bit cold.
On the second floor I had No. 6's and one No. 5. I changed all of these to No. 4's.
Now the first and second floor differ by only about 1 degree day or night. |
weekends
Citizen
Username: Weekends
Post Number: 37
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Monday, December 27, 2004 - 3:48 pm: |
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Me too me too! Our second floor also would get too toasty while the first floor remained uncomfortably cool. After I put the fast vents downstairs and the slow vents upstairs we are much more comfortable.
However, I wasn't too wild about Dan H.'s "We've Got Steam" or whatever the name of the book was. He's overly opinionated concerning matters where reasonable people may differ, IMHO. |
Fotboat
Citizen
Username: Fotboat
Post Number: 34
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - 6:32 pm: |
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What are the best vent types to get, adjustable?, non-adjustable? and Brand? |
Master Plvmber
Citizen
Username: Master_plvmber
Post Number: 289
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - 8:01 pm: |
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Weekends,
I'm not always in Dan Holohan's corner either, but what specifically could you be referring to in your statement: "He's overly opinionated concerning matters where reasonable people may differ, IMHO."
Just wondering.
Fotboat,
Try to use the same brands whenever possible. Gorton, Hoffman and Dole are best.
For the same reason my Mother and Grandmother never served us sauce from a jar, I never use adjustables in my clients' homes.
Master Plvmber |
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