Heating! How it works here...

[kenwashesmonday]

There is some facinating information about steam heat here:

Ken

http://www.heatinghelp.com/steam_problems.cfm

 

[sudsmaster]

Diomede,

I like the term "per absurde" for which the equivalent English phrase would be "to carry the argument to its logical extreme". "Per absurde" is much more concise and to the point.

 

[vivalalavatrice]

Well...VERY WELL!

I wouldn't ever though that a such little duscussed argument would have benn discussed so much... VEY WELL!I'm very happy to have let you take in consideration the heating system...So we shared the argument...

It's true, since people, specially in souhtern Italy, have been installing AC, they started to use it EITHER to heat up their house, the work is electric the same, but now safer than those old electric stoves, sometimes never ground plugged!!!

Toggle, do you see... Riello has arrived in USA either )) We always have had Riello furnaces (now GPL fed, natural gas, when we lived in flat).

Louis, VAILLANT, THE BEST! When my parents were just married, we lived in a flat with the centralized heating, but the water you had to heat up by yourself. So my father, rather to install an accumalating electric water heater, decide to install a natural gas water heater in the kitchen, near the other wall cabinets, it's a 1981 Vaillant gas water heater and it still runs, although we haven't let it work again...

Rich, I'm pleasant you appreciate my "new" words, THANKS! It happens often that I can't say a sentence with common words, I don't know why, so I invent new way...that's why my friends say I'm a "neologist"...We considere that english is often shorter than italian... but sometimes it's not so...I was afraid you won't have understood it, but It didn't happen...WELL

Good Bye
Diomede

PS: Do you know Palazzetti? Now with Clam, and other firebox producers are the the most important manufacturer of heating tools.We have got a Palazzetti Ecomonoblocco78, air heating.

http://www.palazzetti.it/fire/products/index.php

 

[foraloysius]

Steve,

So how would you call that heater? It's a hot water system and it heats the tap water too. A heater/water heater?

Diomede,

I don't think Vaillant is the best brand. They got below average marks in the latest consumer test. And besides that they are well known for their problems, I think that is why the company decided to exchange them for new ones.

Louis

 

[toggleswitch]

Comb-o-matic

Louis:

Perhaps a combo-heater! or combi-heater! LOL
My second boiler picture (with the yellow energy-guide label, a side view) is the coil that produces domestic hot water for the taps).

I don't know why the captions /words disappeared!

The aquastat (water thrermost) shown between the pipes starts the burner to ensure the water output stays hot. This is a beautiful thing during a long, too-hot wasteful American shower! LOL

Methinks energy prices may change some habits, and very soon!

the link is unrelated to this thread, but a more fun combomatic!

http://www.bigdiscountrv.com/washer_splendide.htm