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As is evident from the photo below, there is trouble with the heating system.
On the first cold winter night, the furnace ran out of oil, oops! The water in
the radiators froze solid and cracked. A plumber's statement is below the photo.
Re: 166 Wall Street Plumbing and Heating
I removed all the cast iron rads from the house and put them in the garage or front deck while they were frozen solid. There was only water (ice) on the floor in one room and that was the front room on the main level next to the bathroom, and the ice was cleaned up as it was melting. After the rads were taken out of the rooms the temporary heat was put on and the frozen pipes were open above the boiler to allow any melting ice to drain back. The heat lines in the house were never tested to see if any were split or not.
The domestic lines were all checked and repairs were made and there was only one small leak between the kitchen and dining room to be repaired. There are a couple of fixtures that need to be repaired or replaced. However the heat was not back on when winter started this year until after we had a couple of freezing nights. I haven’t noticed any new breaks or splits but it is possible.
The cast iron rads can be replaced, there are a few places that carry used rads. The number of rads needed and to get the correct sizes ( to maintain correct heat in the house) may not be easy to obtain in Nova Scotia. I had to get prices to replace them from outside the province.
If you were to look at switching to baseboard, it would be a little cheaper but the look of the house would change and more wall space would be used up for heating. Also the floors would need work done to repair the holes from the heat pipes and where it was cut around some of the cast iron rads. All the heat pipes in the ceiling and walls would have to be changed to run in loops. This will mean maybe more ceiling to be removed to do this.
As a Plumber the biggest challenge I see in putting cast iron rads in this house would be in the heat lines, finding the leaks if there are any. There is no blueprint of where they were run on construction.
Dale Smith
========================================================================I removed all the cast iron rads from the house and put them in the garage or front deck while they were frozen solid. There was only water (ice) on the floor in one room and that was the front room on the main level next to the bathroom, and the ice was cleaned up as it was melting. After the rads were taken out of the rooms the temporary heat was put on and the frozen pipes were open above the boiler to allow any melting ice to drain back. The heat lines in the house were never tested to see if any were split or not.
The domestic lines were all checked and repairs were made and there was only one small leak between the kitchen and dining room to be repaired. There are a couple of fixtures that need to be repaired or replaced. However the heat was not back on when winter started this year until after we had a couple of freezing nights. I haven’t noticed any new breaks or splits but it is possible.
The cast iron rads can be replaced, there are a few places that carry used rads. The number of rads needed and to get the correct sizes ( to maintain correct heat in the house) may not be easy to obtain in Nova Scotia. I had to get prices to replace them from outside the province.
If you were to look at switching to baseboard, it would be a little cheaper but the look of the house would change and more wall space would be used up for heating. Also the floors would need work done to repair the holes from the heat pipes and where it was cut around some of the cast iron rads. All the heat pipes in the ceiling and walls would have to be changed to run in loops. This will mean maybe more ceiling to be removed to do this.
As a Plumber the biggest challenge I see in putting cast iron rads in this house would be in the heat lines, finding the leaks if there are any. There is no blueprint of where they were run on construction.
Dale Smith
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135 Eye
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