It's been a few months since the Eko 60 arrived. Unfortunately it had to sit outside until I could get the radiant slabs in the barn poured. It is now resting near its new home while I sheetrock & finish wiring the mechanical room. Meanwhile I have been hunting down all the parts. I have still not been able to find a suitable storage situation. I gave up looking for dairy bulk tanks and 1000 gallon propane tanks as they just seem 1)too expensive 2) too large for my cellar bulkhead and 3) just not readily available. Because my boiler is going in an attached ell of the house--probably the former carriage "house" part of the barn--and the storage is going in the cellar under the main heat load, I have had no end of trouble making my plan work smoothly. I am dreading the crawlspace under the kitchen and first room of the barn as it is inaccesable except from the cellar and a long crawl, and it's a very low, cramped 75 feet. I've all but given up looking for 2 500 gallon propane tanks. After following countless leads and making many phone calls, they just aren't around in any distance I can travel easily in 1 day, nor does it seem cost effective to go further afield for the system I am hoping to put in in the space I have to install it.
I thought I had radiators for the house figured out this week, as well..... Went to a place with 1000's of cast-iron radiators which they re-build and paint. I made my selections, was quoted a price, cleaned, painted and tested, worked out my budget, made many adjustments and sacrifices and left feeling like another piece of the puzzle was complete. However, when I got the quote today I had to call them up. They obviously were looking at the wrong pile of radiators..... nope. They were mine and they wanted almost 3 times as much as I was quoted. Yup...the old bait & switch. The owner said one thing, the invoker/money person another. And no, they wouldn't honor the verbal quote from yesterday. So....back on the market for radiators. Convinced now that we will go with european panels like I originally was going to do anyway. They will sit flatter against the wall & not eat up as much floor space, won't cost quite as much, and come with a warranty I can believe in.
As soon as I am done with the drywall and fish the pipe & power through the crawlspace I'll put the boiler closer to where it will sit and begin making connections. Any advice/ pictures on how best to hook up an Eko 60? Thinking of running one loop to an HX in the storage tank and feeding all of the loads off of this as well. Unfortunately this also means running quite a bit of pex back to the boiler room to connect to the radiant slabs in the barn and workshop from the storage tank. Fortunately if I use 1/2" pex for the home runs on the radiators I will have plenty of 3/4 left to run back to the barn. I used the 3/4 for the slabs.
I thought I had radiators for the house figured out this week, as well..... Went to a place with 1000's of cast-iron radiators which they re-build and paint. I made my selections, was quoted a price, cleaned, painted and tested, worked out my budget, made many adjustments and sacrifices and left feeling like another piece of the puzzle was complete. However, when I got the quote today I had to call them up. They obviously were looking at the wrong pile of radiators..... nope. They were mine and they wanted almost 3 times as much as I was quoted. Yup...the old bait & switch. The owner said one thing, the invoker/money person another. And no, they wouldn't honor the verbal quote from yesterday. So....back on the market for radiators. Convinced now that we will go with european panels like I originally was going to do anyway. They will sit flatter against the wall & not eat up as much floor space, won't cost quite as much, and come with a warranty I can believe in.
As soon as I am done with the drywall and fish the pipe & power through the crawlspace I'll put the boiler closer to where it will sit and begin making connections. Any advice/ pictures on how best to hook up an Eko 60? Thinking of running one loop to an HX in the storage tank and feeding all of the loads off of this as well. Unfortunately this also means running quite a bit of pex back to the boiler room to connect to the radiant slabs in the barn and workshop from the storage tank. Fortunately if I use 1/2" pex for the home runs on the radiators I will have plenty of 3/4 left to run back to the barn. I used the 3/4 for the slabs.
