by Ulla Forsell (Sweden).
Checkerboard Teapot," by
(United States).
A new role .for glass takes shape
by DAVIDM. MAXFIELD look like that, be used like
Smithsonian News that. ' "
Service From at least 1500 B.C., the
After 35 centuries of time of the oldest known
utilitarian use, glass now is existing vessels, which were
appearing in a new role and a made in Egypt, glass has been
universe of new shapes, the substance for making
Contemporary artists are useful objects, whether
working the ancient material mundane or highly or-
into nonfunctional, namental--jugs, bowls and
imaginative sculp- vases, beads and trinkets, for
tare--intriguing forms that example. Later came window
can be satirical, funky, panes, optical devices, lights,
shocking, amusing, awesome, electronic components and,
brash or sometimes just most recently, laser fibers.
playful. But only in the last 20 years
If the objects are at all or so has glass caught theeye
decorative in the traditional • of American artists as an ideal
gift shop sease--or possibly
even practical--those features
are largely secondary to the
craftsman's principal in-
tention to experiment with the
artistic and physical
properties of glass.
Produced in small studio
furnaces now available to
independent sulptors, the new
glass is making a major
impression internationally: on
other artists, gallery owners,
museums, the glass industry
and a new breed of collectors.
"People have a concept of
what glass is," Michael
Monroe, curator at the
Smithsonian's Renwick
Gallery in Washington, D.C.,
says, "but when they see what
is now being created, they
react, 'I didn't realize it could
material for personal ex-
presson, a substance that can
be shaped for purely aesthetic
purposes. Innovative glass-
melting techniques, happily
developed in the early 1960s,
made this possible. And so did
a new wave of teaching in
museums and at colleges as
well as changing American
cultural attitudes about art
after the 1950s.
The new world of abstract,
sculptural shapes created by
glass artists is not a result of
mass production. Each object
is unique, thus accounting for
prices running into the hun-
dreds or even thousands of
dollars. Unlike a factory
operation where design and
fabrication are kept separate,
the studio artists mold or blow
and then shape the glass from collectors, Monroe says.
their own designs, sometimes "Many want to be connected
with the aid of an associate or to the artists, to follow their
two. work; they just don't want to
This is appealing to today's buy an anonymous object."
The look of the new
creations often can be con-
jured up by their names:
"Wooly Eggs"-- delicate,
clear oval shapes containing
spun glass threads; "Small
Black Unidentified Animal
Plate"--black amber glass
with, well, an unidentified
animal outlined in white;
"Sparkling Star"--greenish
cut and cemented plate glass,
radiating from a central eore
along six planes, and "Space.
Spiral II"--tinted glass,
laminated and cut, sweeping
upward in a 270-degree arc.
"Glass is being conceived
and appreciated in ways
radically different from
anything ever done before in
its 3,500-year history," ac-
cording to Thomas S.
Buechner, president and
director of The Corning
Museum of Glass, Corning,
N.Y. "Also evident," he
continues, "is the fact that
while craft and art are
blooming, the glass industry is
sitting relatively still. This
may be because changes
elsewhere are so novel and so
evident that they overshadow
the steady, more subtle im-
provements being made
through design departments..
Whether the studio glass is
clear or opaque, sandblasted
or shattered, geometric or
freeform, bright and shiny or process, however, becomes
dull--in fact, whether it is more complex by adding
considered fine art or craf- cobalt, iron or other metallic
t--little concerns such oxides to the basic recipe to
curators as Monroe and the obtain color characteristics.
artists themselves. "What an To Patti and other artists,
object is made of or how it is the beauty of the material is
created shouldn't determine that it is "expressionistic,"
whether it is art," Monroe
says. "What is important are
the ideas behind the piece
you're looking at. Does the
object make a statement that
transcends its technical
merits?"
Pioneer glass artist and
teacher Marvin Lipofsky, a
that it can be twisted and
controlled unlike any other
substance. But "it's kind of a
wrestling match with glass,"
Patti says. "It's a battle to
make the glass speak my
language and not let the glass
dictate to me."
Although glass had been
Californian, agrees. "My molded and formed around a
biggest problem is tha[there's core as early as 2000 B.C., the
no personality in (many of major breakthrough in
the) works today. It's all giassmaking came in the Near
technique. A statement is East about the beginning of
lacking in a lot of them." the Christian era. This was the
Actually, the glass-making discovery of glass-blowing, an
process and techniques have important technique used
been pretty well mastered by
the studio artists in recent
years, a long journey from the
early 1960s when "there was
practically no information
available," as one of today's
leading craftsmen, Thomas
Patti of Massachusetts,
recalls.
A versatile, flexible, taffy-
like material in its molten
state, glass is made by
melting sand with the proper
amounts of soda and lime to a
1500-degree Fahrenheit
glowing mass. This simple
today by both industry and the
studio artist. The discovery
permitted the production of
glass objects in quantities and
types previously unknown.
A second advance of
comparable importance oc-
curred early in the 19th
century with the introduction
of glass-pressing and bottle-
making developed at the
outset of the Industrial
Revolution. But ironically
these changes made glass so
widely available that it began
( please turn to page 3A
I
in the
I buy myself a
"So that's
you get
CIRCULATING IN: NEW HAMPSHIRE -- Lyme, Lyme Center, Orford, Orfordville, Piermont, Haverhill, Haverhill Center, Haverhill Comer, North Haverhill, East Haverhill, Pike, Woodsville, Bath, Monroe, Lisbon, Londoff, Benton. Lvrnon, Warren, Glencliff, Wentworth . . .
VERMONT - Thetford,, East Thefford, Thetford Hill, Thetford Center, North Thetford, Post Mills, Fairlee, West Foirlee, Bradford, Bradford Village, Corinth, East Corinth, Topshom, West Topshom, Newbury Village, South Newbury, West Newbury, Wells River, Groton,
Ryegote Corner, Eost Ryegate, South Ryegate, Peacham, Bornet, West Bornet.
THIS WEEK'S
PRESS RUN
9,200
'tz
.Serving Over 48 Communities in Northern New Hampshire and Vermont
October 28, 1981
down, but
ark has been
consists of
look like
house. Since
are rather
preliminary
order• How
used? Full
Divided
as for utility
How about a
gym, a wine
for storage
There are
necessary
the work
s to water-
Hydraulic
to plug
cemen-
a batter-like
COver walls.
wail and
IC:n special
handle it
of water-
If water
problem,
sure the
from the
tround the
with a
'proofing
water
the
ENERGY
I Ill I I
Economics efficiency
and basic applications
by BILLCHRISTIANSEN look at the economics of heat electric resistance heating.
Energy Outreach pumps and basic applications. The heat pump, in general,
Advisor Because of the high ef- offers an average 20 percent
] Last week I tried to outline ficiency of heat pumps they,savings over conventional
what a heat pump is and how it usually produce a savings cooling systems and central
works. This week I'd like to over oil, natural gas or electric resistance heating. As
with any system, this assumes
' proper installation and
adequate insulation in the
lx2 or Ix3 furring strips for
wall paneling can be attached
to masonry walls in various
ways. A popular system uses
anchor nails which stick with
a special adhesive. Furring is
hammered over the nail and
the nail is clinched. Another
way is attaching the furring
directly to the masonry with
case hardened nails. Rigid
insulation can be applied with
mastic directly to the walls --
a good "extra." Cover furring
with vapor barrier before
applying paneling.
If you don't like the idea of
walking on concrete you can
create a wood floor by using
one of the systems shown in
(please turn to page 3A)
Special anchor nails (or bolts) are available
for attachment of furring strips directly to
concrete or concrete block walls,
** * t 0
is spread on
BA[tcrT WALL
I poured ¢oncm or concrete
2 conoete footing
3 concrete sb Soor
4 sal (treated)
6 heed kmt
7
s tote plate
9
"-...
,-'oucei attach to Ix3 f'umng grips
htch are nailed at right angles to joists. O
center spacing ( strips depends on the se o#
the t. /
8{J$IA'IDED C:lJl
The new €¢iltr is e khvork or wood or
me ll th I'ng on 'om jot. The
Komecd ile.
Slight twistin9
nail,
@ r®
A WOODSTOVE j/iFfl
XOUCAS00UILD
FOR $35I \\;\;-
q
"Forgot about messing around with old 55-gallon
drums. What you want to build your homemade stove
out of is a discarded electric water heater tank." That's
what Iowa native Robert Smyers told us when we were
looking for a homebuilt woodstove design that would
improve on the usual 55-gallon drum heaters that most
people put together. Our search for an alternative was
sparked by the fact that barrels don't usually produce
very efficient or attractive stoves.., and are increas-
ingly difficult to find.
Smyers gave us at least four good reasons why water
heater tanks were better for the purpose. For one
thing, the walls of such containers are at least three
times as thick as are those of 55-gallon barrels ...
which means that a water heater drum will make a
much tougher--and longer-lasting--stove.
Furthermore, when you build a firebox from a junked
water heater tank, it's relatively easy to make the
stove as airtight and efficient as any $500 woodburner
on the market.
Besides that, if you follow Robert's plan, your heater
will be easy to load, it will have excellent fire and tem-
perature control, and it'll look classy enough to put on
display right in the living room.
And finally, you can build a water heater stove for
even less than most folks now spend putting together a
55.gallon-barrel woodburner. As a matter of fact, Rob-
ert built our test model for less than $35, and it took
him and his brother Emerson only six hours to make it.
It really isn't difficult to find discarded .water heater
tanks, either. Most of the landfills scattered around
the country, in fact, are filled with such containers.
Any trashed electric {forget the gas units for this proj-
ectl water heater of 30- to 50-gallon capacity will con-
vert nicely into a stove.
Frankly, we don't have room here to give you com-
plete instructions for constructing our you-can-make.it
woodstove. But anyone with a cutting torch and weld-
er should find the job pretty easy. And if you don't
own or operate such equipment, scout around until you
find a competent welding shop that'll convert your
tank at a reasonable price. The free reprint mentioned
at the end of this article will give you detailed informa.
tion on adding the legs, the loading hopper box with
hinged lid, the exhaust stack, and the draft control. As
an inexpensive, attractive homebuilt heater, it's your
best bet.
For FREE additional information on building MOM's wooOburning
stove or on THE MOTHER EARTH NEWS magazine, send your name
and addrees to Doing MORE,.. with LESS!, care of this paper. Ask for
Reprint No, 606: "How We Heat A House With A Single Woodstove".
i i 1 i iiiii -
house to ensure minimal
operating costs.
In determining whether a
heat pump represents an
economical alternative to
another type of heating and
cooling system for your home,
a number of factors should be
assessed. First, heat pumps
are most economical when
used year-round for both
winter heating and summer
cooling. If a heat pump is used
for heating only, the system
will lie unused for part of the
year. If it is only used for
cooling, it will not offer energy
or dollar savings over con-
ventional air conditioners.
A second factor to consider
is the climate. The efficiency
of a heat pump varies
significantly with the outdoor
temperature. While a heat
pump may be twice as ef-
ficient as a conventional
heating system at 50 degrees
F, it may be only slightly more
efficient at 35 degrees. As the
temperature drops below 35
degrees, the heat pump must
be supplemented by another
heating system, such as
electric resistance heating. In
some cases, a hybrid system
is used with gas or oil burning
incorporated into the heat
pump. At this time, in areas
( ph, ase turn to page 8A )
FIREWOOD
& TREE SERVICE
Mixed llardwmd $70. cord.
Cut. spilt, delivered.
Bob Ilolly : call 222-4.di6
before 8:(HP a.m., after 5 :IX;
Your ad, this size,
on page 1 of
the Second Opinion
is only $5.00
by BILL CHRISTIANSEN
Energy Outreach
Advisor
Hot water heating systems
are a little harder to figure out
than warm air. In all cases
there is a boiler with a series
of pipes to carry the hot water
out and return the same water
to the boiler. In some older
systems this is done by
gravity but in most newer
systems, there is one or more
circulator pumps to do the job.
The circulator pumps are
usually located on the return
side of the loop.
Headng system maintenance
Hot water system
harder to f't00ure
PAR T 1I
be done with several different
materials on the market. The
cheapest is ,." X 3" fiberglass
pipe insulation, available in
most hardware stores.
The next step would be to
check the radiator units in the
house. If fin4ube, baseboard
units are found these should be
inspected with a flashlight. If
they are dirty and full of dust,
a vacuum cleaner can be used
to clean them. Sometimes a
long brush is useful. On all
radiators, free standing or
baseboard, air must be able to
circulate around the unit.
The first thing to cheek in a There should be at least two
hot water system is the boiler inches of free space below the
area. Look for leaks or wet unit and an opening at the top
places around the boiler,
pipes, circulators and fittings.
If leaks are found, they should
be repaired and this will
probably require a plumber. If
there is a circulator motor on
the system, it should be oiled,
with a few drops of general
purpose oil.
Next, check the pipes that
carry the hot water from the
.boiler to the various radiators.
so cool air at floor level can
move into the unit, become
heated and move into the
room. Boxes, carpets,
draperies and furniture are
the things that usually in,
terfere with the air
movement. Clean, unob-
structed radiator units are
most efficient.
With the boiler hot and the
system in operation, the
Again, look for leaks or wet heating of each radiator unit
places around the fittings. In should be checked. On each
most cases, the supply pipes radiator unit there should be
should be insulated. This can (please turn to page 8A)
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i
by Ulla Forsell (Sweden).
Checkerboard Teapot," by
(United States).
A new role .for glass takes shape
by DAVIDM. MAXFIELD look like that, be used like
Smithsonian News that. ' "
Service From at least 1500 B.C., the
After 35 centuries of time of the oldest known
utilitarian use, glass now is existing vessels, which were
appearing in a new role and a made in Egypt, glass has been
universe of new shapes, the substance for making
Contemporary artists are useful objects, whether
working the ancient material mundane or highly or-
into nonfunctional, namental--jugs, bowls and
imaginative sculp- vases, beads and trinkets, for
tare--intriguing forms that example. Later came window
can be satirical, funky, panes, optical devices, lights,
shocking, amusing, awesome, electronic components and,
brash or sometimes just most recently, laser fibers.
playful. But only in the last 20 years
If the objects are at all or so has glass caught theeye
decorative in the traditional • of American artists as an ideal
gift shop sease--or possibly
even practical--those features
are largely secondary to the
craftsman's principal in-
tention to experiment with the
artistic and physical
properties of glass.
Produced in small studio
furnaces now available to
independent sulptors, the new
glass is making a major
impression internationally: on
other artists, gallery owners,
museums, the glass industry
and a new breed of collectors.
"People have a concept of
what glass is," Michael
Monroe, curator at the
Smithsonian's Renwick
Gallery in Washington, D.C.,
says, "but when they see what
is now being created, they
react, 'I didn't realize it could
material for personal ex-
presson, a substance that can
be shaped for purely aesthetic
purposes. Innovative glass-
melting techniques, happily
developed in the early 1960s,
made this possible. And so did
a new wave of teaching in
museums and at colleges as
well as changing American
cultural attitudes about art
after the 1950s.
The new world of abstract,
sculptural shapes created by
glass artists is not a result of
mass production. Each object
is unique, thus accounting for
prices running into the hun-
dreds or even thousands of
dollars. Unlike a factory
operation where design and
fabrication are kept separate,
the studio artists mold or blow
and then shape the glass from collectors, Monroe says.
their own designs, sometimes "Many want to be connected
with the aid of an associate or to the artists, to follow their
two. work; they just don't want to
This is appealing to today's buy an anonymous object."
The look of the new
creations often can be con-
jured up by their names:
"Wooly Eggs"-- delicate,
clear oval shapes containing
spun glass threads; "Small
Black Unidentified Animal
Plate"--black amber glass
with, well, an unidentified
animal outlined in white;
"Sparkling Star"--greenish
cut and cemented plate glass,
radiating from a central eore
along six planes, and "Space.
Spiral II"--tinted glass,
laminated and cut, sweeping
upward in a 270-degree arc.
"Glass is being conceived
and appreciated in ways
radically different from
anything ever done before in
its 3,500-year history," ac-
cording to Thomas S.
Buechner, president and
director of The Corning
Museum of Glass, Corning,
N.Y. "Also evident," he
continues, "is the fact that
while craft and art are
blooming, the glass industry is
sitting relatively still. This
may be because changes
elsewhere are so novel and so
evident that they overshadow
the steady, more subtle im-
provements being made
through design departments..
Whether the studio glass is
clear or opaque, sandblasted
or shattered, geometric or
freeform, bright and shiny or process, however, becomes
dull--in fact, whether it is more complex by adding
considered fine art or craf- cobalt, iron or other metallic
t--little concerns such oxides to the basic recipe to
curators as Monroe and the obtain color characteristics.
artists themselves. "What an To Patti and other artists,
object is made of or how it is the beauty of the material is
created shouldn't determine that it is "expressionistic,"
whether it is art," Monroe
says. "What is important are
the ideas behind the piece
you're looking at. Does the
object make a statement that
transcends its technical
merits?"
Pioneer glass artist and
teacher Marvin Lipofsky, a
that it can be twisted and
controlled unlike any other
substance. But "it's kind of a
wrestling match with glass,"
Patti says. "It's a battle to
make the glass speak my
language and not let the glass
dictate to me."
Although glass had been
Californian, agrees. "My molded and formed around a
biggest problem is tha[there's core as early as 2000 B.C., the
no personality in (many of major breakthrough in
the) works today. It's all giassmaking came in the Near
technique. A statement is East about the beginning of
lacking in a lot of them." the Christian era. This was the
Actually, the glass-making discovery of glass-blowing, an
process and techniques have important technique used
been pretty well mastered by
the studio artists in recent
years, a long journey from the
early 1960s when "there was
practically no information
available," as one of today's
leading craftsmen, Thomas
Patti of Massachusetts,
recalls.
A versatile, flexible, taffy-
like material in its molten
state, glass is made by
melting sand with the proper
amounts of soda and lime to a
1500-degree Fahrenheit
glowing mass. This simple
today by both industry and the
studio artist. The discovery
permitted the production of
glass objects in quantities and
types previously unknown.
A second advance of
comparable importance oc-
curred early in the 19th
century with the introduction
of glass-pressing and bottle-
making developed at the
outset of the Industrial
Revolution. But ironically
these changes made glass so
widely available that it began
( please turn to page 3A
I
in the
I buy myself a
"So that's
you get
CIRCULATING IN: NEW HAMPSHIRE -- Lyme, Lyme Center, Orford, Orfordville, Piermont, Haverhill, Haverhill Center, Haverhill Comer, North Haverhill, East Haverhill, Pike, Woodsville, Bath, Monroe, Lisbon, Londoff, Benton. Lvrnon, Warren, Glencliff, Wentworth . . .
VERMONT - Thetford,, East Thefford, Thetford Hill, Thetford Center, North Thetford, Post Mills, Fairlee, West Foirlee, Bradford, Bradford Village, Corinth, East Corinth, Topshom, West Topshom, Newbury Village, South Newbury, West Newbury, Wells River, Groton,
Ryegote Corner, Eost Ryegate, South Ryegate, Peacham, Bornet, West Bornet.
THIS WEEK'S
PRESS RUN
9,200
'tz
.Serving Over 48 Communities in Northern New Hampshire and Vermont
October 28, 1981
down, but
ark has been
consists of
look like
house. Since
are rather
preliminary
order• How
used? Full
Divided
as for utility
How about a
gym, a wine
for storage
There are
necessary
the work
s to water-
Hydraulic
to plug
cemen-
a batter-like
COver walls.
wail and
IC:n special
handle it
of water-
If water
problem,
sure the
from the
tround the
with a
'proofing
water
the
ENERGY
I Ill I I
Economics efficiency
and basic applications
by BILLCHRISTIANSEN look at the economics of heat electric resistance heating.
Energy Outreach pumps and basic applications. The heat pump, in general,
Advisor Because of the high ef- offers an average 20 percent
] Last week I tried to outline ficiency of heat pumps they,savings over conventional
what a heat pump is and how it usually produce a savings cooling systems and central
works. This week I'd like to over oil, natural gas or electric resistance heating. As
with any system, this assumes
' proper installation and
adequate insulation in the
lx2 or Ix3 furring strips for
wall paneling can be attached
to masonry walls in various
ways. A popular system uses
anchor nails which stick with
a special adhesive. Furring is
hammered over the nail and
the nail is clinched. Another
way is attaching the furring
directly to the masonry with
case hardened nails. Rigid
insulation can be applied with
mastic directly to the walls --
a good "extra." Cover furring
with vapor barrier before
applying paneling.
If you don't like the idea of
walking on concrete you can
create a wood floor by using
one of the systems shown in
(please turn to page 3A)
Special anchor nails (or bolts) are available
for attachment of furring strips directly to
concrete or concrete block walls,
** * t 0
is spread on
BA[tcrT WALL
I poured ¢oncm or concrete
2 conoete footing
3 concrete sb Soor
4 sal (treated)
6 heed kmt
7
s tote plate
9
"-...
,-'oucei attach to Ix3 f'umng grips
htch are nailed at right angles to joists. O
center spacing ( strips depends on the se o#
the t. /
8{J$IA'IDED C:lJl
The new €¢iltr is e khvork or wood or
me ll th I'ng on 'om jot. The
Komecd ile.
Slight twistin9
nail,
@ r®
A WOODSTOVE j/iFfl
XOUCAS00UILD
FOR $35I \\;\;-
q
"Forgot about messing around with old 55-gallon
drums. What you want to build your homemade stove
out of is a discarded electric water heater tank." That's
what Iowa native Robert Smyers told us when we were
looking for a homebuilt woodstove design that would
improve on the usual 55-gallon drum heaters that most
people put together. Our search for an alternative was
sparked by the fact that barrels don't usually produce
very efficient or attractive stoves.., and are increas-
ingly difficult to find.
Smyers gave us at least four good reasons why water
heater tanks were better for the purpose. For one
thing, the walls of such containers are at least three
times as thick as are those of 55-gallon barrels ...
which means that a water heater drum will make a
much tougher--and longer-lasting--stove.
Furthermore, when you build a firebox from a junked
water heater tank, it's relatively easy to make the
stove as airtight and efficient as any $500 woodburner
on the market.
Besides that, if you follow Robert's plan, your heater
will be easy to load, it will have excellent fire and tem-
perature control, and it'll look classy enough to put on
display right in the living room.
And finally, you can build a water heater stove for
even less than most folks now spend putting together a
55.gallon-barrel woodburner. As a matter of fact, Rob-
ert built our test model for less than $35, and it took
him and his brother Emerson only six hours to make it.
It really isn't difficult to find discarded .water heater
tanks, either. Most of the landfills scattered around
the country, in fact, are filled with such containers.
Any trashed electric {forget the gas units for this proj-
ectl water heater of 30- to 50-gallon capacity will con-
vert nicely into a stove.
Frankly, we don't have room here to give you com-
plete instructions for constructing our you-can-make.it
woodstove. But anyone with a cutting torch and weld-
er should find the job pretty easy. And if you don't
own or operate such equipment, scout around until you
find a competent welding shop that'll convert your
tank at a reasonable price. The free reprint mentioned
at the end of this article will give you detailed informa.
tion on adding the legs, the loading hopper box with
hinged lid, the exhaust stack, and the draft control. As
an inexpensive, attractive homebuilt heater, it's your
best bet.
For FREE additional information on building MOM's wooOburning
stove or on THE MOTHER EARTH NEWS magazine, send your name
and addrees to Doing MORE,.. with LESS!, care of this paper. Ask for
Reprint No, 606: "How We Heat A House With A Single Woodstove".
i i 1 i iiiii -
house to ensure minimal
operating costs.
In determining whether a
heat pump represents an
economical alternative to
another type of heating and
cooling system for your home,
a number of factors should be
assessed. First, heat pumps
are most economical when
used year-round for both
winter heating and summer
cooling. If a heat pump is used
for heating only, the system
will lie unused for part of the
year. If it is only used for
cooling, it will not offer energy
or dollar savings over con-
ventional air conditioners.
A second factor to consider
is the climate. The efficiency
of a heat pump varies
significantly with the outdoor
temperature. While a heat
pump may be twice as ef-
ficient as a conventional
heating system at 50 degrees
F, it may be only slightly more
efficient at 35 degrees. As the
temperature drops below 35
degrees, the heat pump must
be supplemented by another
heating system, such as
electric resistance heating. In
some cases, a hybrid system
is used with gas or oil burning
incorporated into the heat
pump. At this time, in areas
( ph, ase turn to page 8A )
FIREWOOD
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Mixed llardwmd $70. cord.
Cut. spilt, delivered.
Bob Ilolly : call 222-4.di6
before 8:(HP a.m., after 5 :IX;
Your ad, this size,
on page 1 of
the Second Opinion
is only $5.00
by BILL CHRISTIANSEN
Energy Outreach
Advisor
Hot water heating systems
are a little harder to figure out
than warm air. In all cases
there is a boiler with a series
of pipes to carry the hot water
out and return the same water
to the boiler. In some older
systems this is done by
gravity but in most newer
systems, there is one or more
circulator pumps to do the job.
The circulator pumps are
usually located on the return
side of the loop.
Headng system maintenance
Hot water system
harder to f't00ure
PAR T 1I
be done with several different
materials on the market. The
cheapest is ,." X 3" fiberglass
pipe insulation, available in
most hardware stores.
The next step would be to
check the radiator units in the
house. If fin4ube, baseboard
units are found these should be
inspected with a flashlight. If
they are dirty and full of dust,
a vacuum cleaner can be used
to clean them. Sometimes a
long brush is useful. On all
radiators, free standing or
baseboard, air must be able to
circulate around the unit.
The first thing to cheek in a There should be at least two
hot water system is the boiler inches of free space below the
area. Look for leaks or wet unit and an opening at the top
places around the boiler,
pipes, circulators and fittings.
If leaks are found, they should
be repaired and this will
probably require a plumber. If
there is a circulator motor on
the system, it should be oiled,
with a few drops of general
purpose oil.
Next, check the pipes that
carry the hot water from the
.boiler to the various radiators.
so cool air at floor level can
move into the unit, become
heated and move into the
room. Boxes, carpets,
draperies and furniture are
the things that usually in,
terfere with the air
movement. Clean, unob-
structed radiator units are
most efficient.
With the boiler hot and the
system in operation, the
Again, look for leaks or wet heating of each radiator unit
places around the fittings. In should be checked. On each
most cases, the supply pipes radiator unit there should be
should be insulated. This can (please turn to page 8A)
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