jav100
Active Member
Hi,
I just bought a two family house, two story house with basement that has one very old American Standard boiler from the 1950s.
The first floor works very well, no problems, but the baseboard units upstairs are not working.
A few plumbers have come by and suggested changing the furnace and multiple ones have said it's probably air.
So the plumber I like suggested installing the automatic air bleeders on all the units upstairs as some don't have a way to bleed, replacing the circulator pump, and also suggested changing piping as the house had an addition put in, and they removed radiators but then just capped the piping that went to those radiators. The plumber says by completely removing those, the system will work much better. His quote to do all this was about $2K-$2.5K. Interesting enough he quoted my under $1K to add the air bleeders and change the cirulator pump, so not sure if the extra money is justified?
To do all that and add a separate zone for upstairs,he wants $5K or less, as it will involve repiping upstairs. He explained the system is a monoflow and when they added the upstairs apartment they broke the loop.
Sorry if I got some terms incorrect, I'm completely a novice when it comes to this stuff.
Can you all let me know if his suggestions are on point and if the price sounds reasonable? He was among the more reasonable but licensed and experienced (claims 40+ years experience). To change the boiler he quoted $4-5K, while others quoted $7-9K!
I just bought a two family house, two story house with basement that has one very old American Standard boiler from the 1950s.
The first floor works very well, no problems, but the baseboard units upstairs are not working.
A few plumbers have come by and suggested changing the furnace and multiple ones have said it's probably air.
So the plumber I like suggested installing the automatic air bleeders on all the units upstairs as some don't have a way to bleed, replacing the circulator pump, and also suggested changing piping as the house had an addition put in, and they removed radiators but then just capped the piping that went to those radiators. The plumber says by completely removing those, the system will work much better. His quote to do all this was about $2K-$2.5K. Interesting enough he quoted my under $1K to add the air bleeders and change the cirulator pump, so not sure if the extra money is justified?
To do all that and add a separate zone for upstairs,he wants $5K or less, as it will involve repiping upstairs. He explained the system is a monoflow and when they added the upstairs apartment they broke the loop.
Sorry if I got some terms incorrect, I'm completely a novice when it comes to this stuff.
Can you all let me know if his suggestions are on point and if the price sounds reasonable? He was among the more reasonable but licensed and experienced (claims 40+ years experience). To change the boiler he quoted $4-5K, while others quoted $7-9K!