Questions tagged [heating]
For general questions on heating in your home. Be sure to also include tags describing fuel source (electric-heat or gas), type of components, etc.
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Steps to install a natural gas ceiling garage heater
I'm considering installing a wall-mounted natural gas heater in my garage, to keep it warm in winter when I'm playing ping pong or doing some DIY work. I'm thinking to install something like this 30,...
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How to wire Ecobee thermostat to central heat pump (two wires) [duplicate]
I am trying to install an Ecobee Enhanced thermostat to my central heat pump which I am told has 1 stage of heating, cooling, and aux heat and has an inverter which ramps up and down. However, the ...
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How to fit a fireplace insert into my existing fireplace?
I am currently not using my wood fire place and would like to put an infrared insert in. Note, there are many options for conventional, convection based heaters but I am only interested in an infrared ...
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How do I turn off my radiator without a knob?
One of the radiators in my apartment has a knob that I can turn to turn the radiator on/off:
But the other one doesn't have a knob in that place:
How do I turn the second one off? I tried turning ...
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What keeps rain out of a Vertical PVC Concentric Vent?
All pics show are the Vent Cap, which is the exhaust and the inlet air cap. What is used for a RAINCAP?
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How to wire ecobee thermostat to central heat pump (two wires only)
I apologize in advance if this is not the correct forum for this. If so, please let me know where I should start.
I am looking to have my central heat pump set up with Ecobee Enhanced. For background, ...
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How can I heat up my apartment more efficiently?
I live in a studio apartment that I rent from my parents, in France. Each winter, it gets very cold. The region is very sunny, but the specific area around my building is significantly colder (due to ...
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Is it OK to replace only one baseboard thermostat?
Trying to help my folks figure out what to do with heat in their house. Two story home in cold climate, 30 year old electric baseboard heaters.
Can I replace only the living room thermostat - or do I ...
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Central heating loop not getting hot
I have two wet central heating loops: one for the radiators, one for the underfloor heating. One these loops (the UFH loop) is not getting hot.
I have found where the two loops split and checked the ...
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Furnace wont stay lit
My furnace is short cycling very quickly after ignition. I put in a new flame sensor after cleaning the old one.
Then I checked each limit switch and all are closed and have continuity.
I checked the ...
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Should I replace an old furnace with a mini split unit? [closed]
I have a very small house that is close to being 700 ft.². I live in the middle of Illinois some winters it gets really cold , many degrees below zero. Last winter I noticed my furnace having a bad ...
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First finishing project: Attic or Basement for office/studio? [closed]
First time homeowner here, 100 year-old brick bungalo in Chicago where we have very cold Winters and hot Summers. I have my choice of an unfinished basement or unfinished attic to build my home office/...
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Can I install a 24V tranformer inside of the wall cavity?
I have a question similar, but not identical to this one: Transformer location
Can I install a 24V transformer inside of interior wall cavities, with no access other than removing drywall?
My house is ...
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Bleeding Underfloor Heating Without Manifold (with pics!)?
We have house extension with underfloor heating. Underfloor heating was added after the extension was built. It is very unevenly heated - like 20% of the area. It was like that since we've bought the ...
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Bronze Connected to Black Iron Pipe
Does bronze create corrosion when attached to black pipe for hydronic heating?
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Boiler heating, but no water flowing through system
My heating system stopped working this morning. It's an oil-fired hydronic system with 5 zones and hot water tank. This is what I have diagnosed so far:
The thermostats are calling for heat.
The ...
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Why do electric baseboard heaters all max out around 2500W?
Is there a practical or rule-related reason that electric baseboard heaters in the US max out at around 2500W? It's common to have them on a dedicated 240V 20A breaker so it seems obvious to make ...
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How can I update an old electric furnace in my mobile home? [closed]
I rent a small one-bedroom trailer with an old electric furnace from the 70s. My electric bills in the winter are insane, especially relative to the size of the space.
My suspicion is that the main ...
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Question about refill valve on home heating system
I heard some gurgling in our baseboard heat recently, so I decided I should bleed the air out of our system. Never having done this before, I watched a few youtube videos to familiarize myself with ...
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Is it okay to have an air handler in an uninsulated attic or will the air handler have to work harder?
We live in CT -- so cold winters. I don't know all the right/technical terms, but this is our situation:
Split level ranch (two floors plus attic)
Gas furnace and gas water heater in the basement
Air ...
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Connecting Amana Furnace Pressure Switch
Hello fellow DIY'ers,
I had to turn on the heating for the first time this season, our Amana gas furnace didn't stay lit for more than ~7 seconds. I did some research online, ended up cleaning the ...
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What do to with this vent?
I was in the shower yesterday and said "Oh no, a loose tile!". 5 hours after the shower, I'm here, as the tile was not just "loose" but water had gotten all into the wall and was ...
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Goodman MEC961 furnace glowing but not fully igniting. Suspected pressure issues
I have a a Goodman GMEC961004CN. Propane 100,000 BTU two stage furnace. I went to fire it up, and we got lots of air and no heat coming out of it. I checked the board and we had 7 red blinks. The ...
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New homeowner - how to use radiant ceiling heat?
We recently purchased a condo built in the 80s and it has radiant ceiling heat. Each room has a dial thermostat. We decided to test it for the first time today. We turned the dial in one room up ...
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Central Heating Inhibitor for underfloor heating?
I am getting quotes for annual gas boiler service. The guy was talking about adding central heating inhibitor. I have underfloor heating (gas), which he knows.
Would you still use central heating ...
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Insulation in basement ceiling with no heat? [closed]
I have fiberglass insulation in my basement. It's been there since we bought the house, but our basement is not heated. I've heard this is possibly a bad idea.
I also think there may have been mice ...
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How can I move a new heavy boiler to the basement and the old one up and out?
I need help moving a new boiler into my basement and to have the old boiler removed from my basement. It will be a warranty return less than 1 year of use so the old one must be kept intact. The ...
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1931 home repairs. Radiator connections need redoing
Radiator valves cracked and was corroded/welded on. Removed all the corroded parts and got replacements but accidentally cut the steam in line at a diagonal, one side is untouched but the other is ...
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two stage heat pump and condensing boiler run off one 3rd gen thermostat
I have a 2 stage 20 seer bosch heat pump utilizing aux heat strip. I also have a navien condensing combi unit for domestic and hot water baseboard heating. no hydronic coil to air handler. Boiler only ...
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Entire (Mostly) Home's Lights Flicker when Resistive Loads are Energized
Thanks for taking a look at my question. I am troubled by a strange issue that I think I may have an idea about, but I am not 100%. So I would appreciate anyone else's feedback to hopefully set me ...
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What size PERT/PEX tubing to replace supply lines for cast iron hot water radiators?
I'm building a basement apartment in a large 1911 Foursquare home. Part of this is replumbing our 20 cast iron (hot water, not steam) radiators. The old steel, asbestos wrapped supply pipes were ...
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Furnace Return in basement
I have a duplex and one furnace crapped out likely because it had the return in the basement. It’s upstate NY, so it gets cold.
If I want it done 100% right. I need ducts run all the way to the top ...
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2 stage heat pump and condensing boiler run off one 3rd gen thermostat
I have a 2 stage 20 seer bosch heat pump utilizing aux heat strip for second stage. I also have a navien condensing combi unit for domestic and hot water baseboard heating. Currently both systems are ...
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Hydronic Heating System Pressure Changed after Draining and Refilling. Why?
I have a natural gas boiler, with cast iron radiators. This is a hot water system, closed loop system.
Just replaced seized bleed valves on 2 cast iron radiators:
1 - Drained the system.
2- Replaced ...
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Advice needed: placement of kick heaters
I have a question that I'm hoping someone can help me with. Attached is a diagram of a kitchen remodel I'm doing.
We've gotten the question from the plumber as to where we'd like to place two 4000btu ...
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Do pipes burst all at once, or do they burst in sequence?
I'm working with a 250-year-old house.
The house was unoccupied for several years before I came in, so I don't know if the damage I'm about to describe is the product of freezing.
I'm getting a ...
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Does underfloor heating require screed?
We've just bought a house in the UK with underfloor heating, where the flooring tiles were clearly installed by a cowboy, dotted and dabbed straight onto the underfloor heating (which is water heated, ...
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Can I reconfigure two 5" ducts into a single line & what size should they be?
I am trying to move a floor register location. Currently I have two 5" HVAC ducts being fed from a 6" x 10" rectangular trunk. The one 5" run has the register in the middle of ...
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Can this upper vent be covered?
can this upper vent be covered/removed? This is a wood fireplace, that we plan on using. There is also a hole in the right side of the fireplace.
We plan on putting a large post/shelf where this vent ...
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Baseboard heating stuck on in one zone
I came down to the kitchen this morning and noticed that the heat in that room was on. I checked the thermostat, and it was set to 68 (there is no off switch on this one) but was registering about 80 ...
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Mini split to cool one room and heat another
We live in a three story house, with our bedroom in the third story loft. On sunny days, it gets too warm up there, even with the windows open (not to mention the neighbor’s 4:00am rooster crowing). ...
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Estimating heat pump energy usage
My house is heated by an old oil furnace, and the oil tank could spring a leak and flood our basement at any moment, so I'm hoping to replace it with a ground source heat pump this year. I'm trying to ...
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Sealing ducts myself
I have a furnace with AC in the basement. I have poor airflow in my top floor vents (furthest from the furnace). and even the room with the cold air return doesn't change temperature very quickly. ...
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How do I completely drain and decommission hydronic radiant heating system?
Purchased a home which has a floating floor radiant heating system installed in the basement. I am looking to remove the system as it was poorly designed and installed. I've closed off the fresh water ...
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Painting over rust on heating pipes
I live in an older apartment building (circa 1968-69). I just stripped layers of old paint and putty off of the heating pipes in my bathroom. I'd like to repaint them with silicone-based acrylic ...
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How does this wood stove work?
How does this wood stove work? My current understanding is, that a fire is created in the stove shown on the first picture bottom left. Then coal is transferred to the wood stove in the middle of the ...
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Best in wall electric heaters to replace Cadet HW078 [closed]
my condo came with Cadet HW078 heaters installed throughout. There are 4 total: 1 in each bedroom and then 2 in main living room area. Total size of the place is 1084 square feet. I live in San ...
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Is heating load related to volume of area/surface?
I am working to improve distribution of my heating (ductwork). I found multiple sources to calculate the heating load (either per room or whole house):
Most of them use the volume (room area times ...
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Oil boiler, remove baseboard from entire house but keep the water heater
I have a question about removing Hydronic Baseboard but keeping the boiler and water heater in place.
Is this relatively straight forward?
Shut off power
Cut off the supply and return for the ...
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Why would water faucets use a different energy source from the radiators?
In my apartment, hot water in the faucet is heated by an electric heater, while the hot water in the radiators for heating the rooms comes from a central gas boiler in the building. To me it seems ...
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