Snowbird home prep, hot water heater
This past winter we went to AZ for 2+ months, I had turned the heat down to 55 and shutoff the water at the meter where it enters the house. I have a single boiler running baseboard heat and the h...
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We just disconnect the thermostat wire for the water heater zone.
I had a problem of the boiler pressure getting too low with the main water turned off. Blew one of the circ pumps. The solution is to run a separate line to the boiler and put a whole house shutoff after that. If you do this, make sure you do something with the PT valve overflow (like pipe it to a sump or a drywell with a sump pump). I had an expansion tank diaphragm rupture and it put and inch or 2 of water in the basement in 20 minutes. Can't imagine that going for a month.
I had a problem of the boiler pressure getting too low with the main water turned off. Blew one of the circ pumps. The solution is to run a separate line to the boiler and put a whole house shutoff after that. If you do this, make sure you do something with the PT valve overflow (like pipe it to a sump or a drywell with a sump pump). I had an expansion tank diaphragm rupture and it put and inch or 2 of water in the basement in 20 minutes. Can't imagine that going for a month.
