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The Glitch and Fix: I'll do it anyway

The Glitch and Fix: January 2019

January 9, 2019

An installer is asked to install heating in the slab floor of a farm workshop. The owner has already purchased a used cast iron boiler that will run on propane.

Ray Wohlfarth: 6 lessons learned about boiler water treatment

I hope the lessons I have learned over the years will help you in the boiler room.

Ray Wohlfarth

January 7, 2019

My technical boiler books all use the “lessons learned” theme, and the following are the lessons I have learned about boiler water treatment.

School administrators in Byron Center, Michigan

Michigan school district modernizes heating systems

Byron Center School District overhauls heating, hot-water systems to save $400,000 per year.

January 4, 2019

Turtleneck sweaters, beehive hairdos and inefficient mechanical systems have this in common: they’re all, thankfully, a thing of the past.

John Siegenthaler: How to use a variable-speed circulator for boiler protection

Any boiler can become a condensing boiler under the right conditions.

John Siegenthaler, P.E.

January 4, 2019

All boilers that burn hydrocarbon fuels (natural gas, propane, oil, wood) produce water vapor as a byproduct of combustion.

The Glitch and Fix: Sometimes warm, sometimes not

The Glitch and Fix: December 2018

John Siegenthaler, P.E.

December 7, 2018

The Glitch: Eager to keep up with this new technology, an installer decides to install a hydraulic separator between a boiler and distribution system as shown below.

The Glitch and Fix: Subtle differences

The Glitch and Fix: November 2018

John Siegenthaler, P.E.

November 27, 2018

An installer needs to provide heat from a conventional gas-fired boiler to a large buffer tank. The tank is necessary because of a highly zoned distribution system.

John Siegenthaler: Modern biomass meets state-of-the-art hydronics

This wood-pellet system example is intended to supply space heating and domestic hot water.

John Siegenthaler, P.E.

November 14, 2018

There will always be fringe markets for products that use renewable energy to provide marginal heating comfort. These markets survive because early adopters willingly sacrifice superior comfort as the perceived price for using renewable energy.