Recent content by Tyler S

I would really like a check valve, but I'm thinking I may end up going with an In line ball valve.

Hello! I purchased a set of brass quick connect hose fittings for my garden hose. I was expecting them to have a built in check valve kinda like air hose fittings. But they did not. So I look further at similar products and it doesn't seem like they exist. Does anyone know of any?

Most fuels we have today are junk for small engines. If it wont start/run, or runs like crap you can almost guarantee its a fuel issue.

Manuals library has an app for Android. Very handy.

Do you have an electric hot water heater?

Planning on installing a water softener system in the next couple weeks. I'm on city water. I will also be installing a sediment and carbon filter. When I look at pictures of similar set up's, many have what I can only assume is a carbon filter downstream of the softener. From what I've read...

I FINALLY got the time to install the check valve and expansion tank. It took longer than expected and I think I deviated from my original plan. I didn't write down my plan but the list of fittings I bought a few weeks ago didn't match up to what I used. Anyways the sweat joints are far from...

Spring because I intend to install it on a vertical pipe. It also closes faster, so you get less of the water hammer effect. I intend to do this install fairly soon. I priced everything out. Shouldn't cost more than 150 or so. I'm going to change out a few valves that are crusty and no longer...

I think you are confusing the direction of flow. If you look at the upper left hand corner of my sketch the prv is a little bit cut off. That is the high pressure prv reducing city supplied water pressure. The other prv you are referring to is flowing in the direction of the heating system. I...

Better maybe?

Hopefully those are sufficient. I'm not sure what else it could be. Do you think thermal expansion alone could cause it to bury the needle on a new gauge? Picture of the gauge is just so you can see what it is. It's not the most expensive on the market but read 50 psi when I first installed it...

Updated picture showing circulator pump on the heating loops.

Sorry for the long wait. I double checked my "schematic" it's correct as far as can tell. I omitted ball and gate valves valves for clarity. Locations are not exact except in relation to each other in terms of sequence. Let me know if I should add arrows indicating direction of flow. For anyone...

Let me work on a sketch.

So were moving in the right direction! The prv above the boiler does in fact tie into the domestic cold. The prv by the oil tank is the main feed from the city supply. Pipe comes in through the wall, then the main shut off, then the water meter, then a gate check valve, then a gate valve...