Mad Plumber
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I had a gravity-fed hydronic system with cast-iron radiators. It was completely gravity-fed, with no pump. My boiler was a coal-fired boiler retrofitted for oil. I recently replaced it with a high-efficiency boiler with a circulating pump. There were no radiators in my basement. The heavy cast-iron pipe and the boiler itself provided sufficient heat in the basement. With the new system, the boiler itself puts out no heat and the water temperature is lower, so that the cast iron pipes in the basement do not put out as much heat as they used to. Now with the new system the basement is very cold. Short of cutting the cast iron pipe and installing a couple of radiators, is there a cheaper way to go? I was thinking of putting some kind of heat diffusers on the cast iron pipe, similar to the plates that are found on baseboard heaters. What do you think?
Thank you
hvac_newbee
Thank you
hvac_newbee