Littleton Shitheads

[one-eyed Jack]

that’s an interesting tire you had there. Surprised you couldn’t find someone to take it off your hands.


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Sorry. I should have said "Skeeters". Jack.

 

[dcmdon]

Hey Jack,

Maybe you can curb your circulation.

We had our house's (original) 1984 oil burner replaced half a dozen years ago.

Including the circulators. (Maybe that was a silent-upsell,
but we had two crap out in three dozen years, so shrug).

The new circulators...

...have giggle switches - the swoopily designed (but out-of-focus)
Hi/Med/Lo selector on the left hand side black panel.

Even if you have one control zone, is there a chance in hell that
you have multiple loops, and some of the loops for upper floors
have variable-speed pumps that you could slow down?
Or that you have loops with fixed speed pumps that would be
cost-effective to swap out for variable speed.


This stuff is your bread and butter,
and you're obviously on top of the issues.
Jus' sayin'.

Don't forget the $10,000 in controls to manage all the zones and run the variable speed pumps. And an electrician running all the Tstat wires.

but either way, still a good idea.

 

[AHM]

Don't forget the $10,000 in controls to manage all the zones and run the variable speed pumps. And an electrician running all the Tstat wires.

Not talking adding extra zones or controls.

Just that if there were already multiple loops,
and the loops were per-floor,
then maybe set the upper floor circulators'
giggle switches to LO,
because heat rises and the upstairs loops don't need
the same volume circulating as the downstairs.


Good friends/former colleagues were typical skinflint
MIT undergrads in the 60's, renting normal apartments in Cambridge.

Heat was included in the rent,
but the apartment's thermostat was in a locked box,
and the thermostat was set to "cryogenic".

Being MIT students, they solved the problem:
whenever they felt chilled in the winter,
they just sat an ice pack on the thermostat.
Viola! Toasty warm!

Whenever the landlord snooped around,
they'd just toss the ice pack back in the freezer,
and watch him puzzle over how the apartment was
like a sauna, but the thermostat was bottomed out
and there was no sign of the lock being picked.

but either way, still a good idea.

(If it was hot water, which we are told it ain't - it's steam).

 

[EddieCoyle]

We're all set with the building guy. I took care of it.

 

[Quite_Exasperated]

Awe…end of thread? Say it ain’t so! I was just about to ask if there is a radon remediation system…

 

[EddieCoyle]

Somebody can start a new steam thread in Off Topic.