Out of the Blue [Nov 30, 2013, 10:36 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
My reprieve from yard work yesterday turned sour when the heating guy showed up
to find out why the heat on the second floor isn't working. Flash forward to
midnight, where I am paying off the plumber for a few hours work installing new
relief tanks, a few other new fixtures, and a new pressure reduction valve, as
our old one had failed, leaving our home plumbing to deal with water pressure
intended to distribute water over several square miles. And at the end of it
all, only one radiator out of three on that floor actually gets hot, and the
other two just warm up a bit, so we never even completely solved the original problem.
Joy.
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jdreyer wrote on Nov 30, 2013, 13:38:It's all about the age of the house. Out here in the West everything except the older of houses - anything built immediately post-WW2 or older - has forced air of some kind. And I'm thankful for it; forced air plus dirt cheap natural gas has been a very good combination.
In the NE, they're still pretty rife. I can't remember a house I lived in or visited that didn't have a radiator system, whether it was the old fashioned tall ones that were typically placed right in front of a window, or the baseboard ones.
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