Or,... how long you'd have to wait for one to get there after that kind of weather. My guess is they are all swamped with calls like yours.
Paul
I don't know modern thermostats, but do you think there may a logic on those or the receiver that reads a maximum setback as an off? I have two old school hardwired mercury witch T/S's. I believe the minimum setting on those is 50 or 55. Sorry to hear of the big trouble.Lightning wrote: ↑Fri. Dec. 30, 2022 10:47 pmSo among all that happened there was one more thing I forgot to mention.. it seems that my Honeywell wifi thermostats don't show a reading less than 40 degrees. I check them daily and it said both rooms in the outbuilding were 40 degrees all thru that cold snap, so I never thought there was a problem. While I was doing repairs yesterday I found a FROZEN bottle of drinking water. So it's clearly evident that the music studio side of the building went well below freezing.. how's that for a head scratcher?
I mean your pipes froze so we know it was colder than 40?Lightning wrote: ↑Fri. Dec. 30, 2022 10:47 pmSo among all that happened there was one more thing I forgot to mention.. it seems that my Honeywell wifi thermostats don't show a reading less than 40 degrees. I check them daily and it said both rooms in the outbuilding were 40 degrees all thru that cold snap, so I never thought there was a problem. While I was doing repairs yesterday I found a FROZEN bottle of drinking water. So it's clearly evident that the music studio side of the building went well below freezing.. how's that for a head scratcher?
Right lol. But the floor could have been colder due to stratification and the radiators are along outside walls. The thermostat is at head level on an inside wall. So there could be variances in the room. The water bottle was at about 3 feet high closer to the center of the room.hotblast1357 wrote: ↑Sat. Dec. 31, 2022 8:09 amI mean your pipes froze so we know it was colder than 40?
I could drain that loop in the event of an emergency, like if the boiler broke down. The lines would need to be blown out with forced air, a shop vac could likely do it. We do heat it up occasionally during the winter so my wife can do spray tans and so my band can practice.
After posting that I got to thinking with the small amount of coal you consume it is probably better to just heat the space. I was always curious about feeding the end of a loop into a space just to remove the chill. So possibly direct a loop to that area with water that has already circulated thru a different zone before it returns to the boiler.Lightning wrote: ↑Sat. Dec. 31, 2022 10:03 amI could drain that loop in the event of an emergency, like if the boiler broke down. The lines would need to be blown out with forced air, a shop vac could likely do it. We do heat it up occasionally during the winter so my wife can do spray tans and so my band can practice.
I've been thinking about this.. Turns out that having the autofill on probably stopped the boiler from going dry. Since the outbuilding is lower (elevation wise) than the boiler, the leaks would have syphoned the boiler dry by back feeding thru the return.hotblast1357 wrote: ↑Thu. Dec. 29, 2022 6:10 amI’m glad you found it when you did and you had your auto fill on!