Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: ancillary heating questions

[Casey Morrigan (cjmorr]

The noise is from the boiler heating the water and the water being
circulated in the system.  There are occasional cracking noises and loud
ticking.

How loud is it?  Hmm, how to answer that.  As loud as a quiet forced air
system or a portable HEPA filter on the lowest setting.  Don't know the
decibels  :).  It can't be heard equally well from all rooms.  It is heard
most clearly in the rooms that adjoin the storage unit where the boilers
are.

Casey Morrigan
Two Acre Wood
Sebastopol, California

-----Original Message-----
From: cohousing-l-admin [at] cohousing.org
[mailto:cohousing-l-admin [at] cohousing.org]On Behalf Of Andrew Burgess
Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 6:00 PM
To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ancillary heating questions


>It's noisier than I was led to believe.

What makes the noise? How loud is it?

>We don't have zones in our floors, and at least one of us (of 14 houses)
has
>needed to buy space heaters to heat north-facing rooms when we don't want
to
>heat the whole second floor.  It's an easy solution.

Another is to run the tubing as if zone valves and a controller were
present but don't install them (the tubing loops come out of the
slab and right back in). Then its easy to retrofit later
by buying the hardware. Once the tubing is in concrete you'll never
change to zones.

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