The owner of a 107-year-old home sought an advanced hydronic heating solution for a major basement finishing project and to alleviate his existing heating woes on the first and second floors of the residence. The installation of an innovative and highly efficient boiler from Weil-McLain helped make the basement remodel a success and the family’s home comfortably warm throughout.

A technician encounters a system installed in the 1980s when radiant floor heating was relatively new in North America.

The Spirovent Quad Magnet is a hydraulic separator that incorporates effective air elimination of a Spirovent plus adds powerful magnets surrounding the flow path to increase the efficiency of separating ferrous material from the circulating system.

DIRTMAG PRO is a powerful dirt separator for residential and light commercial hydronic systems. 

Protect your system from “black sludge” with this tried and trusted patented magnetic technology, which ensures that virtually 100% of iron oxide and scale is removed on the first pass.

A homeowner hires a heating contractor to upgrade his propane-fired cast-iron boiler to a mod/con boiler. The cast-iron boiler is only 15 years old and in good shape. 

A multiple boiler system using sectional cast-iron boilers has been configured to supply two loads as shown below. A “crossover pipe” is installed in case the flow rate in the primary circuit is different from the flow through the boilers. There are several piping errors in this proposed design. Can you spot at least five of them?

One of the most recent initiatives undertaken by the Radiant Professionals Alliance Hydronics Industry Alliance — Commercial (HIA-C) committee is designed to create interest in the Hydronic University and introduce the future “Hydronic Solutions” videos and tutorials, white papers and training.

Sometimes multiple mistakes show up in small portions of hydronic systems.

An installer is asked to provide a system that supplies two zones of fin-tube baseboard and two zones of floor heating.