Hot-Water Heating Help Topics

If you're replacing a steam boiler, there's only one right way to size that boiler, and that's to measure the radiators. If you're replacing a hot-water boiler, you'll do...

That I can get excited about compression tanks probably means that I'd be a lousy lunch companion, right? I mean who wants to hear about solving problems with something t...

You can place a thermostatic radiator valve, or TRV, on a radiator within a hot-water or steam heating system. A thermostatic radiator valve enables you to control the te...

This past summer, we had Burnham BASE-RAY cast-iron baseboard radiators installed in our home. One of the benefits of BASE-RAY baseboards is that you can paint them to co...

I was wondering about boiler chemicals and how many contractors (if any) were using them on brand-new systems. Do we need them? Hydronic systems are closed to the atmosph...

For want of a vacuum breaker, water hammer destroyed this heat exchanger. The call came in when I was young, eager, and paying close attention to the grown-ups. I had bee...

The homeowner was frantic in his e-mail to me because he had painted a few of his old radiators over the weekend and as soon as the heat came on they smelled carcinogenic...

Here's a full day's work compressed into a couple of minutes, courtesy of our friend John Cataneo's Dropcam. There's a lot to consider when moving a hot-water system from...

I like my coffee black. The Lovely Marianne takes hers with skim milk, no sugar. We were away for a few days last summer, and the morning after we returned, I checked the...

When deep (and persistent) snow arrives, danger arrives with it. I asked the professionals on The Wall what homeowners should do (and not do) to stay safe and here's some...