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08-Dec-2024 Paul

06 Mixed Emotions

On one hand I’m sad the thermal expansion tank sprung a leak. More importantly I’m overjoyed it didn’t happen when I was away. That could have been bad, real bad.

The good news was it took me longer to drive to Lowe’s, buy a new one and drive back (25 minutes max) than it did to install the new one. FYI the old one was 22 years old and ironically just the day before it started leaking I was wondering if it actually still worked or not. I’m debating to cut it open to see what it looks like on the inside. Not sure I want to waste a blade or cutting disk to open it.

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Canon Image Challenge15-Dec-2024 20:34
Thanks for sharing with us the key to your house's heat.

Dave
Guest 15-Dec-2024 06:51
Of course there is a difference between Troy NY and SoCal...lol...I was discussing this with my brother tonight whose central air ect in the deep South is always set below 68 degrees...whereas, even my cold back bedroom, 68 is usually at its coldest...which is damned cold to me(!)...so it depends. (I note also that the back bedroom is almost always cool at night during the summer...) Traveller

ps. I just checked, it is 73.2 at 11pm in my bedroom and I think I am going to die from the cold....brrrrr,,,,lol
Canon Image Challenge14-Dec-2024 15:05
My wife grew up in a house like this in Troy, NY.; but no floor heater. Built in the 20s. The original house had a coal furnace in the cellar which was eventually replaced by an oil furnace. There was one grate on the main floor to allow the heat to rise up, and a 2nd grate in the main floor ceiling to let heat rise up to the 2nd floor. It got cold in the winter throughout the house.


Jim
Canon Image Challenge14-Dec-2024 04:58
Nope, nope, nope...no wires, no pass through except maybe rolling up the stairwell, it is a heck of a poor heating system, that's for sure. The back upstairs back bedroom where I sleep, read, watch my tablet gets no heat at all....Traveller
Canon Image Challenge13-Dec-2024 18:18
I knew it, I knew it. I was going to guess a floor heater but then I thought to myself every floor heater I saw including the one in my parents home had a simple T stat. Do you have 2 unidentified wires hanging out of a wall that are tied together. If so that’s your stat. Another characteristic of floor heaters was no duct work but for 2 story homes there were pass through ceiling to floor vents to help heat the 2nd story since heat rises. Paul
Guest 13-Dec-2024 15:52
Call me spoiled by technology, but how do you control the furnace without a thermostat? Does a floor furnace mean heated floors/radiant heat? At least it's probably not like the cantankerous furnace in the "Christmas Story" movie. I loved the dad cussing at it.
Canon Image Challenge13-Dec-2024 03:49
Now wait a minute, wait a minute...I have heat, (a 1936 floor furnace), what I don't have is a thermostat! (but too much family....;>}}}}...) Traveller
Canon Image Challenge12-Dec-2024 22:38
LOL

The images this conversation brings !

Jim
Canon Image Challenge12-Dec-2024 22:26
Wait until they find out your house has no heat.

Dave
Canon Image Challenge12-Dec-2024 21:56
I will try...if allowed...women sleeping or frumpy from the morning, unshaved men...it will be strange...I doubt if I'll be cooking much...people in terror of my prepared food are already seeking out restaurant off center rooms where they might retreat to for dinner and avoid my horrors...lol..Best Wishes, Traveller
Canon Image Challenge12-Dec-2024 21:54
I will try...if allowed...women sleeping or frumpy from the morning, unsaved me...it will be strange...I doubt if I'll be cooking much...people in terror of my prepared food are already seeking out restaurant off center rooms where they might retreat to for dinner and avoid my horrors...lol
Best Wishes, Traaveller
Canon Image Challenge12-Dec-2024 20:40
Did someone call my name? We have a tankless water heater that has an expansion tank that was installed after a few years. I'm not sure why it wasn't part of the original package.

That blue looks like our well's pressure tank. I don't know about a back flow check valve on our water supply (yes, we have both well and city water), but we do have one on our sewer line.

Traveller, please post pictures of your home's Woodstock scene. Are you planning on doing a lot of cooking to feed them all?

Dave
Canon Image Challenge12-Dec-2024 15:40
Re T's PS : This Challenge ends on Monday, Dec 23. I will get the voting out by Weds, Christmas day. I will be in Minnesota that week, out and about with family and friends. I expect I will have blocks of time to work on it, esp in the evening. We will just play with the cards dealt to us.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge12-Dec-2024 13:16
We all know when water is heated it expands, right!.. RIGHT! Of course we do! In a closed loop system, meaning you have a back flow check valve on the incoming water supply (many of the newer water meters cities use have them built in) the expansion tank absorbs the expanding water which can put a lot of pressure on the piping and water appliances. The UPC requires them to be installed if it is a closed loop system, open loop isn’t a problem since it just pushes the water back out into your main waterline. Not sure about tankless water heaters, if anyone has a tankless chime in. Dave???

Paul
Canon Image Challenge12-Dec-2024 04:55
I am going to Google it, but what is a thermal expansion tank???? (ps I may be a little absent this Challenge, lots of family coming from out of state(s) to visit...too many, I'll have people sleeping on the office floor...or, something...I may set up a tent in the garage for me....!) Best Wishes, Traveller
Canon Image Challenge11-Dec-2024 05:05
22 years is pretty good these days for household hardware.

Jim