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The piping strapped to the bottom of the floor joists is supposedly part of a primary loop.

The deal lasts from May 4 through June 26.

Nuheat’s electric radiant floor-heating products are combined with Pentair’s Thermal Building Solutions’ Raychem heat-tracing systems for pipe freeze, snow-melting and deicing applications.
 

An installer is asked to use a pellet-fired boiler to supply heat to two zones of low-temperature radiant floor panels. The system includes a three-way motorized mixing valve to reduce the supply water temperature to the distribution circuits.

A heating contractor who’s trying out his first wall-mounted mod/con boiler installs it as shown above. When buying the boiler, the contractor was told to use a pair of closely spaced tees to separate the boiler and distribution system.

Taco’s popular FloPro factory training program will resume this year, with the first class on April 30 to May 1 to take place at Taco’s Innovation & Development Center in Cranston, R.I.

The class is an addition to the two existing courses: Residential Level 1 training and the CDR1 training for the NRCP series of residential, condensing tankless water heaters.

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