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Some pictures of a residential heating system I am doing.
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kevin.. nice & neat .. looks like you got your training at electric boat
*MikeFunny you should mention it I originally apprenticed as a shipwright. But Plumbing and Heating is steadier work.
*Like Mike said, nice and neat. I just wanna' know what size the house is that this system is supporting..... Sam
*Kevin, nice work, tell me do plumbers always have pipe dreams?
*Sam17000 sq. ft. The boilers are 200,000 btu each. One boiler would heat the house. But as to the remote location the owner did not want to be reliant on one boiler, notice the circ pumps are all piped in twos for the same reason. The Viessmann multimatic control (not yet installed) will alternately cycle the boilers and circ. pumps as well as notify us when their is a malfunction thru an internal telephone modem. The system will have 13 circ. pumps and 5 mixing valves alongside the pumps and mixing valves in the photo when completed. The three zones currently hooked up are wired temporarily for heating the radiant floors on the first floor this winter.
*ArminI do have pipe dreams, about doing jobs such as this. And luckily I seem to get at least one heating system such as this a year. And lots of smaller ones.
*Kevin,Nice work. To tell you the truth, when I first saw your post, I thought "this isn't what the gallery's for. It's supposed to show of pics of nice work, the kind you can be proud of." Well, I was reprimanded. I don't think I've ever enjoyed the beauty of a mechanical system before, but you deserve credit for a clean and thought out job.Jon
*Kevin,Looks like the heating system they're doing at the manchester project of this old house. Looks awesome!!Gary
*Sweet...looks great...
*Job well done Kevin . I am a HVAC mechanic as well and I can say that you do good work. I was wondering though about the two circ pumps per zone. Seems like a little overkill. How do you like Weil-Mclain boilers? And do you ever use any of that PEX tubing in radiant heating systems?You know , you should go to HVAC-Talk.com and post some of your pics there. Again , great job.
*C.BossYes the whole job is overkill. The home is on a remote island, so the owner does not want to be left without heat, hence the two boilers and two circ. pumps per zone. I've never used a Weil Mclain. So cannot say one way or the other what I think of them. The reason I use Viessmann is the rep. is only a day away, I have put in lots of them and only had two problems and both times the rep has got on the ferry and come over to troubleshoot. I feel this is well worth the extra money we pay for a Viessmann as I've put in other products and never get this kind of service. Yes I do use PEX tubing I use WIRSBO, will post a couple pics. Thanks for the tip on HVAC-Talk.com I will go take a look.
*Wirsbo tied down to steel mesh
*Wirsbo stapled down on foam
*I'm making up for the lack of piping Photos on the site as every fine home also needs a mechanical system. So here's another one.
*Combi-Cor system for a small home
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*Kevin; Nice workmanship! Now is this combi thingy a glorified water heater used to heat a home?
*bakeIt's a Bradford White water heater with a coil that the water from the heating system goes thru separate from the domestic water. Its about the most basic system I've installed.
*I used a BW power vent on my heat system . What is the cost of the combicore? the 40 gal power vent was $400 + . About 40,000 BTU.
*DonWe pay approx. $1400 Canadian for a natural draft combi-cor a power vented combi-cor is approx. $1700 (I have a propane model in my shop now it was brought in for a job. Delivered to the jobsite, the owner opened it up and burned the box. when I arrived I saw that it was a power vent it wasn't supposed to be. So now I sit on it waiting for a job I can use it on as I could not return it without a box.
*Kevin; Where in BC are you?bake
*bakeI'm in Campbell River aka (Salmon Capital of the World). Most of the pictures are from projects on the Islands. Work in C.R. has been slow for the last couple of years but luckily we have some beautiful island properties that Americans and lower mainlanders are snapping up and building summer getaways on.
*Kevin, I try to avoid plumbing, but the work that I see here is awesome, makes me want to play with my torch (haha, no pun intended). How do you charge for this type of work? Was all of this spec'd on a print or did you have to design the whole system? Another question is, when you know you have jobs like this, can you preassemble the manifolds in the shop easier? These complex systems can't be site built in the basement, can they. The projects of this caliber that I've done were all forced hot air and haven't required in-floor radiant heat. Keep up the posts. Thanks
*DustinSome of the jobs are quoted some are estimated and some are by the hour. It depends on the customer. The job in the first series of pictures is being done in a large part in my shop, this is to save on travel time as we have to take a ferry and then a water-taxi to get to this job and we cannot stay over on the island so this is a daily commute. When I first got involved with this job they did have engineering specs. for the job but no drawings, as the design phase progressed we drew away from the specs. as well. The general design was layed out by Viessmann, the piping layout to make everything fit in the space provided was designed by me. It used to take me several hours to layout a system such as this but over the years the layouts start to repeat themselves, it usually takes no longer than a couple hours now.Appreciate the comments Thanks.
*Wow, I would never bother to enclose that work in a separate mechanical room. I would want to show it off. Anyone who would not appreciate the view of work like that, I wouldn't bother with their opinion anyway.
*Kevin -Thanks for posting these images.Although I am not in the trade and only a homeowner, I've been accumulating boiler piping and configuration images as inspiration for fine craftsmanship as well as for reference.As a "wethead", these are very much appreciated.Alan
*Kevin , you mention the use of Viessman quite a bit. I am Facilty Maintenance Mechanic down here in Tacoma and currently maintain all of our boiler systems in the outlying facilities as well all other HVAC. Well , anyway I have heard of but not seen their high efficiency condensing boilers. Some are even wall hung I guess. I believe they run the return water through a " flue gas economizer " which pulls the latent heat out and utilizes the combustion gases to fullest. Have you ever worked on such a thing? By the way , great job on the radiant tubing layout.