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“My Chimney Sweep told me it was the Boiler starving for air in the basement. My Heating Guys tell me its a chimney drafting issue.”
Both are two sides of the same coin. If you want help, listen to them, they might be able to solve it, if they know enough about draft.
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When the motor capacitor fails, or an inside motor wire touches, or the bearing starts to bind, motor amps may rise. If the voltage to the motor drops for whatever reason, amps will rise, so check the voltage.
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This is one of those questions that has items to consider. What is the boiler weight and construction … how big is the attic … would a small boiler that could do the job in another location be a consideration at similar expense.
The other part of the question is the usual …
How much would it cost to move and replace a boiler of unknown dimensions to an unspecified location on an unknown ceiling construction, passing tubing from where the boiler is now through the ceiling, patch and paint, sight unseen? Your guess would be as good as anyone else.http://www.heatpro.us energy businessmen’s knowledge
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Repair companies usually warranty their work, so call them back to get it working.
Anyone else touching it would require getting paid again.http://www.heatpro.us energy businessmen’s knowledge
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Attic exhaust fan thermostats are often set to turn on at 110F. An attic temperature of 140F is twice the ordinary heat load used to calculate insulation effects. Cooling the entire attic reduces the amount of cooling run time of an AC system.
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More than likely not.
Opening a window on one side and putting a fan to blow air out the other would do more. That would be better than smelling dungeon for weeks.http://www.heatpro.us energy businessmen’s knowledge
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A dehumidifier is mostly an window unit that is inside the room. When it is working, cool air should come out the on/off side and hot air out the other side, with water collecting. If that doesn’t happen, it isn’t working.
They are more often throw-aways when they don’t work as repairs are close to the cost of a new one.http://www.heatpro.us energy businessmen’s knowledge
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Magic won’t work to cool the house.
The fan on an evaporative cooler is made to move enough air from the inside of the cooler to the outside of the cooler right at the grill, unless the fan is designed to move it through ductwork.The illusion is that as air is moving that it should go through ducts also; but that little 14 x 14 grill size can tell you that the evaporative cooler is good for a large room while NOT attached to ducts, not to overcome the resistance of ducts going a long distance. If that fan was strong enough to force air through ducts, there would be an intolerable 3300 cfm breeze blowing loose papers around the room. Get on the outlet side of a 1000 cfm furnace fan some time and see the difference.
You would do better with large floor fans to blow air down the hallways, if the cooler is enough to do the whole house. An evaporative cooler rarely makes 55F air come out the front like a window unit or central air unit, which means you’d need to move 3 or 4 times the amount of air to cool more than the room. You have that in the new unit with 3300 cfm.
The question is …
did the unit come with a fan that can move that much air through ductwork? Did it actually tell you in the papers with it how to get 3300 cfm through what size duct? Usually 1000 cfm requires about a 28 x 8 duct, so you’d need a trunk duct about 28 x 24 in cross-section = c.680 square inches of cross-section.Each 6-inch duct is c.30 sq in of cross-section so you’d need (22) 6 inch ducts to move it if the fan was strong enough to do duct duty. You are short (17) 6 inch ducts, so get cracking.
The reason so many errors are made in adding AC is that most techs don’t understand air flow pressure requirements when sizing ducts to a house.
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Change the contactor. After about 5 years they pit at the contact surfaces and make less electricity pass to get the compressor started. A bad contact can make the unit act as it is doing, and eventually make the compressor fail.
Make sure the electricity is disconnected during the change and at that same time clean and tighten all the electrical connections you find.
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It is simple to get the right compressor,
order one from an American Standard dealer by giving them the model and serial number. Then they will look in the parts list for the right compressor. Ratings and operation are for a specific compressor tested in the factory.It’s a LOT wiser to do it that way than to get a guesstimation of whatever a supply house has in stock.
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“It appears that the heater on the fan limit is receiving 24 volts all of the time,”
That is a mis-wiring. Make the wiring the same as the wiring diagram and it won’t happen.http://www.heatpro.us energy businessmen’s knowledge
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The breaker might be bad or there might be a short. Either needs examination and repair.
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Something to think about though. There is the social desire to maintain a piece of the past. I wonder what the cost would be to make an old house built when fuel was cheap, remain liveable when fuel is extremely expensive. I don’t estimate that it is possible to adequately insulate an uninsulated house in retrofit without considerable reconstruction costs.
I might consider the design to be an attractive one, though usually the closets were woefully inadequate.
So I’d consider taking a few of the old bricks and make them part of a cornerstone to a completely torn down and rebuilt building of the same appearance with modern insulation, windows, and facilities. I would think it would come near to the same cost with much less heartache and unseen future problems.
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