Maybe needs to go in your bedroom 
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believe me I was thinking about it Sunday AM when it was 58 in there!
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Glad 2 hear they taking care of you. I have the same issue here I’m waiting for eversouce 2 inspect my house so we can insulate it better
interested to know what they quote fir that. I’m under the impression I’m gonna be in for a big estimate if I ask…
How many BTU’s?
There are multiple factors when sizing a boiler, including square feet, loss of heat, as well as they way the heat is dispersed, what kind of registers/heaters are used.
The slantfin is the most popular, and cost effective, but in my opinion is the least efficient at dispersing heat.
What I’m getting at, is it may be possible to keep your boiler if it puts out enough btu’s, and just change your heating devices.
When I worked in the apartment industry, we had boilers that out out approximately 50k btu for each apartment, but they had the slantfin registers, and they just don’t a good job at heating. They disperse the heat quickly, but there’s no radiant heat, or thermal mass to continue radiating heat.
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Thanks for the insight. I’ll take a look at it and see what I can discern. The simple calculator I found online said that based on the type of baseboard heat I have and my region they were recommending 175,000 BTUs for a home size of mine (3700 sqft)
I have a feeling if my insulation, windows, and doors were better I would not need anything more than what I’ve got as far as the heat. I know that when the outside temp is in the 20s it has no trouble keeping up and I can have any room in my house as hot as I like it
That sounds about right, and if it’s close to that rating, it should be doing its job.
The other part of the figure after knowing you’r BTU “rating” is how many btu’s of registers you have per foot and if the output is what you need, based on soft or you need more registers, and boiler is doing its job and keeping up.
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Makes sense to me. Hard to get heat out into the room if you don’t have enough ways to radiate it. We have these things and under the cover it’s these thing vertical fins that have the supply pipe running through them.
Am I right to guess that what matters is how many linear feet of these radiators do I have in each zone, correct? And then compare that to the square footage of the zone im heating
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Hot water circulation or steam system?
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Correct. This is also where a different style register may help. Same length, different height and width. Just more BTU’s.
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Hot water baseboards.
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What’s the pressure and temperature on the system?
Primary secondary piping?
Pumps circulating? Strainer clogged?
Equipped with automatic air bleeders?
Lots of checks to be made before determining a problem.
Only trying to help.
Your grow is gorgeous, keep up the good work! 
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I appreciate any help I can get. I’ll get those readings when I head home for lunch this afternoon and figure out what model it is. We get it maintained yearly so I’m sort of hoping that any kind of clog filters or regular maintenance items like that are taken care of already
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Here’s the gauge
And here’s the tag on the boiler
Jesus - 93k btu!?? Am I reading that right? Is that low as hell??
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Seems average for a residential boiler. I think mine is around 100k.
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Air vent valves on the radiators?
Is the burner running a lot in these temperatures OR does it seem to hold it’s thermal mass well?
What I’m getting at is… I presume you’ll have a circulation pump(s)…
Are they pumping that hot water into your radiator… out and back to the boiler?
Inlet 175… 180 degrees
Outlet shouldn’t too be much less than that
Or is it hot on the one side but not the other?
Hope you can get it working well for you. Weatherman said the cold air is moving in…
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No air vent valves or any kind of valve whatsoever on the radiators. It’s just a pipe in and a pipe out.
The burner seems to be running a lot, yes but I sort of expect it to be given that I’m calling for more heat from the thermostats. I also presume there’s circulation pumps but I’m not sure what they look like.
Yeah more cold here too… starting now.
Does it feel hot in and out? Like 175 degrees hot?
Maybe simply short on the amount of heat those radiators will put out… are the radiators physically clean and not dusty? Good airflow
The pump(s) generally speaking will have an electric motor that powers the pump/impeller
All different colors and sizes but designed to move water throughout a hot water loop.
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As long as all registers are putting out heat, there’s no air in the system.
Usually the valves are hidden behind the covers. There’s usually a valve installed at the end of every registers.
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