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This is long but please bear with me.
My son spent his first winter last winter in a house he bought and found inconsistent heat on the first floor. He battled to make sense of how the thermostat worked because sometimes there was too much heat but most of the time not enough.
So -
I'm replacing my sons oil fired hot water boiler and I'm confused by what I see. There are 3 zones, basement, 1st and second floor of a small cape.
The basement and second floor have baseboard in a series loop and those pose no problem.
It's the first floor that has me scratching my head. This is a neighborhood of 65 year old homes and USUALLY they were built with a monoflow system on the first floor that also heated the second floor with one thermostat.
What I found is all copper coming to the boiler from the middle of the house. The basement is finished so I cannot see where these pipes run.
The strange thing is the first floor zone has a 1" copper feed and 3/4" copper return. The difference in sizes has me confused, if it's a monoflow system, it doesn't SEEM to run around the outside edge of the basement as the black pipe monoflow system does in my house.
And to make this worse, the two bedrooms on the first floor were connected to that zone in parallel right above the boiler, so at least I can see them. They were just T'd off of that zone with standard T's, not monoflow T's. That's something I don't understand at all, I don't see how those 2 rooms got enough hot water to heat them.
I've only done hydronics in my house where I pretty much changed everything from how it was when I bought this house but I have not seen what's out there in other peoples basements.
So what do you guys think? Is that a monoflow system on the first floor? Should I join the 2 bedrooms into it with monoflow T's because it is or do I need to rip open the basement ceiling and see what's going on?
Sibi
My son spent his first winter last winter in a house he bought and found inconsistent heat on the first floor. He battled to make sense of how the thermostat worked because sometimes there was too much heat but most of the time not enough.
So -
I'm replacing my sons oil fired hot water boiler and I'm confused by what I see. There are 3 zones, basement, 1st and second floor of a small cape.
The basement and second floor have baseboard in a series loop and those pose no problem.
It's the first floor that has me scratching my head. This is a neighborhood of 65 year old homes and USUALLY they were built with a monoflow system on the first floor that also heated the second floor with one thermostat.
What I found is all copper coming to the boiler from the middle of the house. The basement is finished so I cannot see where these pipes run.
The strange thing is the first floor zone has a 1" copper feed and 3/4" copper return. The difference in sizes has me confused, if it's a monoflow system, it doesn't SEEM to run around the outside edge of the basement as the black pipe monoflow system does in my house.
And to make this worse, the two bedrooms on the first floor were connected to that zone in parallel right above the boiler, so at least I can see them. They were just T'd off of that zone with standard T's, not monoflow T's. That's something I don't understand at all, I don't see how those 2 rooms got enough hot water to heat them.
I've only done hydronics in my house where I pretty much changed everything from how it was when I bought this house but I have not seen what's out there in other peoples basements.
So what do you guys think? Is that a monoflow system on the first floor? Should I join the 2 bedrooms into it with monoflow T's because it is or do I need to rip open the basement ceiling and see what's going on?
Sibi