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Portage & Main / Re: Another BL2840 Shutdown Question

« on: April 14, 2015, 07:24:55 PM »

That's a good point. I'm going to have to figure something out.

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Portage & Main / Re: Another BL2840 Shutdown Question

« on: April 13, 2015, 06:50:53 PM »

I put a bypass in the main lines just before the filter. It bypasses everything in the house. I could then drain down everything from there with a drain valve I put in at the bottom of the dhw heater.

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Portage & Main / Another BL2840 Shutdown Question

« on: April 13, 2015, 03:28:44 PM »

So I'm shutting my unit down for the season and my question is should I bypass my heat exchanger and dhw and drain them? I know Portage and Main says to leave the pump on which I have no issues doing, but it seems like I'm going to be wasting all the money I saved this winter by circulating water through them. The hot water heater will be warming the water and the A/C unit will be trying to cool it back off.

The second part of my question is I have a lot of calcium or lime in my water. It leaves a white residue in my glasses and such. I added the recommended amount of boiler treatment and had the water tested, but I'm not sure if the boiler treatment neutralizes it or not. If I bypass the heat exchanger should I drain them or leave the water in them? I would hate to have the heat exchanger get plugged up with calcium.

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Portage & Main / Re: another newbie

« on: July 30, 2014, 01:19:44 PM »

I'm just outside of Springfield IL and took delivery of mine last month. I had to order it from the factory and it was all my John Deere 4050 would handle getting it off the trailer. I hope to start the install in a couple of weeks, but might get busy with moving in.

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Plumbing / Logstor fittings

« on: July 30, 2014, 12:49:49 PM »

I must say, I'm a little confused. I'm going to be starting my P&M BL2840 install in the coming weeks and I'm trying to figure out the plumbing. Am I understanding correctly that the 1" dual pexflex pipe is a different size than 1" pex? What do I need to look for to connect the two inside the house? I'm planning on bringing the pexflex in the crawl space about 20' to the basement then going on from there with pex. Can I use copper instead of pex? I'm not sure I want too, just trying to figure out all of my options.

This is a great forum and I have gotten a lot of great ideas from here, but sometimes it makes me think of more questions.