Tuesday, January 12, 2016

FLOOR HEAT COMPONENTS ARE HERE!

It's getting closer to floor heat every day. Just took delivery of some of the critical heat components, In the picture is the stainless steel 3 loop manifold. It's a Uponor with adjustable water flow ports, (need to adjust water flow in each loop to equally adjust for heat) ball valve shutoffs, temp gauges & assorted fitting, 2 Taco pumps - one for mounting on the boiler for water delivery - the other is thermostatically controlled for water thru the manifold, Honeywell mixing valve to drop the temp of the water going into the floor. It's bad to have to hot a water into the concrete (over 125 deg is bad)the concrete will actually deteriorate much faster. This valve is adjustable so the water temp will be much lower than the delivery temp (which is 185 deg - 195 deg). I"ll start out at about 85 - 90 deg at the manifold and see how that works. there is some experimentation involved to get it working correctly, should be fun. The valve mixes the incoming hot water with the much cooler water coming out of the floor. The green box is the thermostatically controlled relay system for the pump. So these are the parts, I'll need to build a panel to mount all this stuff.

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