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February 25, 2005
Life in a Slab House - Part 2
I am currently listening to DSC-2005-02-17 from the album “NY trip update. From the 40th floor of the NY HIlton” by Adam Curry
Well, the plumber was here. We (Debbie and I) had gone through a series of tests last night, turning zones on and off, turning the hot water on and off, and so on. The goal of all of this was to try and isolate where the potential problem was. We basically timed the times that the oil burner would go on and off, and how long it would run.
Everything On | |
| 5:50 pm | 5 minutes |
| 6:00 pm | 1 minute |
| 6:05 pm | 2 minutes |
| 6:15 pm | 2 minutes |
| 6:18 pm | 1 minute |
| 6:38 pm to 6:49 pm | Debbie In Shower |
| 6:57 pm | 1 minute |
| 7:00 pm | 3 minutes |
Everything Off | |
| 7:01 pm | Heat off |
| oil burner never came on | |
Turned heat on in main house | |
| 8:00 pm | Heat on - burner ran for 7 minutes |
| 8:18 pm | 5 minutes |
| 8:34 pm | 4 minutes |
| 8:40 pm | 5 minutes |
Turned off heat on in main house, turned on heat in bedroom | |
| 8:56 pm | 7 minutes |
| 9:19 pm | 3 minutes |
| 9:36 pm | 3 minutes |
| 9:53 pm | 4 minutes |
Turned off heat on in bedroom, turned hot water back on | |
| 10:14 pm | 4 minutes |
| 10:50 pm | 4 minutes |
Our conclusion, the hot water, main house and bedroom zones are okay, so we must have a leak in the heat system in the original zone in front of the house. So the plumber comes today and after a little while, he comes to the conclusion that the problem is with ... the hot water. Well, in the long run problems with the hot water is probably going to be less expensive then problems with the hot water pipes. The plumber is going to come back on Monday or Tuesday and pressure test all of the pipes. Once that is done, we will know definitively what the problem is, and then put together a solution. Stay tuned.
Posted by pmadsen at February 25, 2005 06:09 PM
