New OWB Install Planning

Boiler is here and in place. I will try to take some pics later.

 

Found a few very minor things that were damaged in transport, but overall looks very good. I'll just keep chipping away at the install.

 

Got a little done before the skeeters chased me in the house. Boiler is wired, main circ loop to the house is plumbed in at the boiler, recirc pump is 50% plumbed. Just need to pick up a few more parts and I'm done....should be filling the system by the weekend.

 

Dang dude, I don't know how you do it...is your last name Murphy?! Are you the one that makes all our projects take twice as long as they're supposed too...then yours seemingly take 1/4 of what ours do?!

Nice work...and those look like pretty nice units too!

 

I wish it only took me 1/4 the time. I'm a hack on most of this....if you count all the reading and videos I have to watch to figure this stuff out I probably spend 2x more time than somebody who knows what they are doing.

 

More progress tonight. Got the chimney adapter, chimney, and rain cap installed. Hole through the basement wall is sealed up ( I hope it's water tight). Recirculation pump is plumbed in...just need to crimp everything down and tie up the wires.

Parts get here tomorrow to plumb in the baseboard heat exchanger then I can purge and fill and hope for no leaks.

 

Hydraulic cement?

 

Yup.

 

Should be good to go.

 

Could "tar" over the repair too...if you want insurance

 

Already did.

 

Shoulda known...you got this!

 

He's got some buddys that wanna come over to play too...

 

Got the water treatment added to the boiler as well as the OWB side of the baseboard heat exchanger plumbed in this AM. I think it's ready to fill and check for leaks. I'm still waiting on a few parts to plumb the other side of the HE, then I'll be done.

 

Got the "closed" part of the system filled and purged today. No leaks, new pump runs like a champ...didn't realized how bad the old one sounded.

Turned the OWB on yesterday and everything looks to be in order. Fan starts up, draft damper opens up. No leaks. Everything looks operational.

Just need two brass elbows to get here and install them and I'm 100% done.

Been a good time overall. I'll post back when it gets cold enough for a fire...will probably start making DHW sometime in October.

 

See any issues?

 

The engineer/data nerd is making me want to instrument this thing. Return temp, stack temp, and flow rate are on my radar. Not sure I want to spend any more money right now though.

Since I filled the boiler its been stupid hot outside. The boiler temp is at 88 degrees. Just for giggles I turned on the pumps and took the DHW exchanger out of bypass and took a shower. The propane water heater didn't fire and the boiler temp lost 2 degrees.

Water pressure in the shower was normal. No leaks.

 

You can do the temps part of it pretty cheap and easy ($50-60)...wirelessly...I use a Maverick ET732 dual probe BBQ thermometer for my wood furnace plenum and stack temps...I know some guys use it for boiler setups like yours too. And there are better slightly more expensive versions of these BBQ thermometers out there too...