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RECENT UPDATES
2008 Updates
The House on Third Street goes dual fueled
Thanks to Takagi, Wolff Bros. Supply, Stiebel Eltron and Stack Heating, as of December, The House on Third Street is dual-fueled. We now have the opposition to heat the home with Takagi’s TK-Jr. gas tankless water heater or Stiebel Eltron’s electric tankless water heater.
We have been working towards this for some time.
Wolff Bros. Supply’s Sustainable Coordinator, Dean Dorsey; Takagi’s Regional sales manager Paul Mosher and radiant heating specialist, Andy Stack, of Stack Heating, all worked together to help move The House on Third Street to a dual fuel heating system.
Now with the turning of a few values, The House on Third Street can be heated using electric or natural gas. Sue and I now have the ability to follow the lowest rates
The switch over resulted in a December gas bill of $34.00. During that billing cycle, Sue and I enjoyed a draft free home kept at 70 degrees.
2007 Updates
During March and May we made changes to the radiant heating system and added a duct system to recover warm air from the attic.
RADIANT HEATING SYSTEM
The heating system was completely revamped, thanks to Any Stack of Stack Heating. The goal with radiant heating is to keep the slab at a constant temperature. We knew heat was not efficiently getting out through the radiant tubing embedded in the concrete floor with the system we had. We also knew that the temperature was over shooting the thermostat’s set temperature by several degrees and then falling below it several degrees. This wheel barrowing affect meant that we had to repeatedly raise the temperature of the 22 cubic yards of concrete that makes up the floor and our heating system. This reheating was using up an incredible amounts of energy.
We had several people take a look at the system and offer their ideas, but Andy is the one who correctly determined that the pump circulating the heated water out through the floor did not have enough “head pressure” to push the water out through the systems and therefore we were not transferring heat efficiently to the concrete floor.
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