For general questions on heating in your home.
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Why is my Central Heating taking so long to heat up?
I'm in the UK with a small modern, well insulated, double glazed home heated by a traditional gas boiler.
My heating had been achieving room stat temperature within 30 minutes but is now taking at ...
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Why does a single radiator need regular bleeding?
Almost all of the radiators (forced water) in my house heat up fine. However, a single radiator needs regular bleeding (~1/day) in order to heat. Note, this radiator is not at the highest point in the ...
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Why does my boiler keep shutting down and reigniting after a minute?
My central heating comes on via the timer and runs for about 30 minutes, then it shuts down for a minute, runs for 2 minutes, shuts down for a minute, runs for 2 minutes. This is a constant thing ...
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How can I retrofit this existing wall-heater with an external thermostat?
My house has several wall-mounted gas heaters.
All but one of them have external, easily accessible thermostats. However, the one that happens to be the most used has no remotely mounted thermostat, ...
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What should I do about this Alpha HE CB33 Boiler pressure error condition?
I have an alpha he cb33 boiler which has stopped working this morning. Yesterday I removed a radiator for cleaning then put it back on and re-pressurised the system. It was working ok last night. ...
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Why isn't my thermostat clicking on/off automatically?
My thermostat is not clicking on/off automatically, I have called my landlord and they replaced a very old one with a brand new one and it is still not clicking on off automatically, but will ...
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How do I turn the heat down in my house?
I just moved into this house. It still has the radiator unit but it's too hot. How do I turn the heat down? I turned the thermostat off, but it's still hot: does that mean I need a new thermostat?
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What type of rubber pipe is used for this particular installation of hydronic radiant in-floor heating, and is it reliable?
I'm looking at a home built in the 80's with hydronic radiant in-floor heating embedded in concrete slab. I've never seen this type of hydronic tubing before. I'm pretty sure that the attached photo ...
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How can I use bulk electrical wire to make a subfloor heating system?
Electrical floor heating kits run US$10 to $15 per square foot, but bulk wire only costs $2.50. With the controller, you're still running under $4 a square foot. I have a construction background, but ...
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Why won't my condenser turn on when I run my heat pump?
I have a York Affinity condenser. When I run my heat pump, I expect it to turn on somewhere in the cycle but it doesn't. It generally does this once a year. The usual fix is to cycle the power of the ...
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How can I consolidate different heating/cooling systems into a single system?
I have 3 different types of heating/cooling systems that I inherited.
Hot water heat. This heats the whole house/garage via 3 zones.
Zone 1: Kitchen/Livingroom
Zone 2: Bedrooms/Bath
Zone 3: Garage
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Why is my furnace blowing hot air outside?
So I have been having trouble heating my home. I noticed today that there is a vent blowing hot air outside. It is not the return, chimney or venting. Any ideas other that the builder thought we ...
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How can I add a common wire to the existing furnace wiring?
My current furnace has Rh and W1 to the thermostat. I'd like to add a C for my new networked thermostat, but I'm not sure where to connect it.
From my research it sounds like I should be able to just ...
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Do heater vents that will self close exist?
Are there heater vents that can open and close as the air passes through them; this way
being closed when off so the warm air won't escape back into the vent. My heater
is located outside meaning the ...
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Where can I find a remote mains socket for my electrical heater?
I have been looking around for a remote mains socket which will operate my heater in my office at the end of the 70 feet garden. I want to be able to switch on the heater from the house.
The label on ...
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How can I clean out the pressure switch port at the inducer housing on a Lennox G40UH furnace?
I have a Lennox G40UH(x) furnace, but the gas does not ignite, because water may have entered the system while raining, or the the pressure switch port at the inducer housing has just to be cleaned.
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What can I do about my odd sized heating vents?
Two related questions:
I have a problem section of heating vent that is 2.5" x 12". I thought I'd be able to find this size in Lowes or Home Depot, but nothing is even close (I see 3.5" x 10"). ...
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How do I know if my high limit and low limit are set correctly on my aquastat?
I have a boiler that is only providing heat for my forced hot water baseboard system (4 zones). I've always thought that the high limit on the aquastat was too low (the temperature on the boiler ...
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Heating system cost estimates
What is the order of magnitude cost estimate of the following heat system. The current one is forced hot air, 50 feet of duct work, 10 vents. Goes through a couple walls, but generally is hanging from ...
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Why does the water pressure in my boiler go up so high?
The problem I have is with the pressure dial on the tank in bathroom. I was told that both needles should be at about 1.5, but the red needle rises up and then we have madly banging pipes, and ...
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Why isn't water running through our radiators?
We had a plumber in today to bleed our rads. He also changed the batteries on the thermostat and fiddled around with the boiler. Since he left the temperature has dropped dramatically and he's refused ...
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What could cause my radiators to go cold when the hot water is turned on?
when only heating is selected on my program timer the radiators all work fine and are hot. But when both heating and hot water are on the water gets hot but all the radiators go cold. When the hot ...
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What does the low limit do, and where should it be set on an oil fired hot water furnace?
What does the low limit do, and where should it be set? My furnace has
a honeywell triple aquastat relay and has a difference dial. Water temp is about 190 deg F. Also, water psi gauge is only ...
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What is the thermal mass to glazing ratio for passive solar heating?
I am trying to figure out what model I should be using to build a self-sufficient house, which would use passive solar heating to keep indoor temperature comfortable all year round (Location is ...
