The city of Amboy, Ill. needed an in-floor radiant heating and domestic hot water (DHW) system, and Grasser’s Plumbing and Heating was more than happy to oblige. Grassers has been making customers happy for over a half of a century. In fact, and they have become one of the most successful and trusted plumbing and Read more
Radiant heating
The city of Amboy, Ill. needed an in-floor radiant heating and domestic hot water (DHW) system, and Grasser’s Plumbing and Heating was more than happy to oblige. Grassers has been making customers happy for over a half of a century. In fact, and they have become one of the most successful and trusted plumbing and heating companies in the LaSalle, Peru, Princeton and Ottawa, Illinois area for more than 60 years.
According to tech Tim Kuhlman—who works mostly high-end new construction and commercial jobs—the city of Amboy needed radiant heat for one of its 4,000-sq.-ft. “sheds,” which is used for the maintenance of city vehicles and storage, and domestic hot water for a service sink.
The hot water solution was a primary/secondary piping application and provided by an NTI Ti200AC Trinity combi boiler, which features a state-of-the-art sealed modulation combustion system with hot surface ignition and patented 316L stainless condensing heat exchanger provides higher efficiencies. The combi boiler supplies heat to stainless steel Viega radiant manifolds—with shutoff and balancing/flow meters—which feeds Viega’s PEX tubing in the floor, and it also supplies domestic hot water for the service sink.
Inside the Job
Boiler — NTI Ti200AC Trinity combi boiler
Pumps — B&G pl 36 primary; Taco 2400-24 secondary
PEX — Viega & REHAU
Valves — NIBCO
Expansion Tanks — Extrol
Balancing/Flow Meters — Viega
Air Eliminator — Honeywell Supervene
Determination in installing a home owner’s heating system was the key to success for Jamie Whitehead of Cooper Plumbing and Heating (Calgary, Alberta). The installation included domestic hot water, radiant floor heat throughout the home and forced air. Caleffi’s 172 Series manifold mixing stations were used to evenly distribute temperature to the radiant floor heat Read more
Determination in installing a home owner’s heating system was the key to success for Jamie Whitehead of Cooper Plumbing and Heating (Calgary, Alberta). The installation included domestic hot water, radiant floor heat throughout the home and forced air. Caleffi’s 172 Series manifold mixing stations were used to evenly distribute temperature to the radiant floor heat zones. Whitehead not only succeeded in a job well done despite the challenging space constraints of the home’s mechanical room, but his design also won the March winning entry in the Caleffi Excellence contest.
His winning entry was determined by most audience votes received during a recently held Coffee with Caleffi™ webinar. Whitehead was presented with an iPad™ mini by Kim Butts (Mechanical Systems 2000). He is now a contender for the grand prize: a trip to our global headquarters in Italy. After 12 months, the grand prize winner will be chosen from the 12 monthly winners by a panel of industry experts and Caleffi executives.
It’s not too late to share your design innovation in the Excellence contest. Visit us.caleffiexcellence.com for contest details.
