Greenbuilding Archive for April 2001

>  i would appreciate any feedback on (1) radiator manufacturers, (2) 
>tankless vs tank for radiator systems and (3) on ways to design an 
>integrated water/space heating system (maybe there exists a site 
>with available diagrams with specs etc...).

     I posted a detailed description of my system, which combines 
space heat with hot tap water.  It all runs on a single Myson heater. 
There ensued a long and occasionally acrimonious discussion about the 
dangers of Legionella, about which you can make your own decisions; 
my original post and the discussion are in the archives.  Let me know 
if you'd like me to send you the system description.  It has a 
diagram, though it's a simplified ASCII diagram.

     Tankless will work fine for radiator systems, however you decide 
to do it.  You could dedicate a heater to it, or buy a combi which 
will do both radiant heat and tap water in one, or go with an open 
system.

-Speireag.
-- 
Speireag Alden, aka Joshua Macdonald Alden

...the last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or 
plant: 'What good is it?' --Aldo Leopold, _A Sand County Almanac_ 

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