Hello Brownstoners,<\/p>\n
Looking for a little advice on two possible fixes for my heating system. We have a forced hot water system. It appears that the valve that regulates the flow of hot water through the system is broken so, when the thermostat says the heat should turn off, it doesn’t–water flows through all of the radiators in the front of the house all the time and it can take hours for the rest of the radiators to cool down. <\/p>\n
Our boiler guy has given us two options. Option one\u00e2\u20ac\u201dchange the valve which according to him is a fairly labor intensive plumbing job and could run about $700. Or, put in a relay on the boiler that will turn off the boiler when the thermostat switches off and turn it on when the thermostat switches on. This will cost about $350. Our concern is that since this system works like a hot water heater\u00e2\u20ac\u201da huge vat of water is kept hot all the time and then gets pumped through the system when needed\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat our bills will go through the roof if every time the thermostat switches the heat on it needs to heat up that whole vat of water. Also, I’m not convinced this will totally fix the problem since what’s to keep the cooling but still hot water from circulating through the system. On the other hand who wants to spend $350 they don’t have to. <\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello Brownstoners, Looking for a little advice on two possible fixes for my heating system. We have a forced hot water system. It appears that the valve that regulates the flow of hot water through the system is broken so, when the thermostat says the heat should turn off, it doesn’t–water flows through all of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19619,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-25735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heating"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/10\/heating-quandry\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Heating quandry","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/10\/heating-quandry\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/10\/heating-quandry\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Heating","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"ralph gardens"}],"creator":["ralph gardens"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2008-10-31T12:22:18Z","datePublished":"2008-10-31T12:22:18Z","dateModified":"2008-10-31T12:22:18Z"},"rendered":"