Heat pipe Puns

I purchased an old commercial building in a very cold climate (Midwest USA near Canadian border) and I'm looking for ways to keep the pipes from freezing so i can have a functioning bathroom. I don't need blazing hellfire,, just a small heat source in a small basement to keep the pipes to the rooms above from freezing up.

I've got electricity, but running a space heater just to generate heat is wasteful. So i started wondering about setting up a mining system to generate heat. I'm not even really looking to profit, just to offset the costs and maybe break even. Could this be done with some used mining equipment? Never mined crypto before.

The pipe in my bathroom hisses out steam constantly. It's kinda loud but I've gotten used to it. Is this normal or should I let someone know? It's my first winter with steam

Hi,

For context, I am in Northern Virginia area. My heater is not running since the morning, and we have to wait for a tech to arrive tomorrow. The outside temp will be below freezing today. How can I prevent my pipe from getting frozen during the night?

Thank!!

I have Clevo N150SD laptop that is almost almost 6 year old and the cooling system is a bit sucks. I wanto to use a fan to directly to the heating copper above the graphic chip.

Laptop's centrifugal fan sound is really annoying while running.

I'm thinking of making a hole where the processor and gpu are and putting a fan there.

Like this:

https://i.ibb.co/Nxvqw1r/heat-pipe-2.png

However heating pipes are a closed loop elements so should i use the fans where the gpu and cpu are or should i use where the fins (next to the centrifugal fans) are?

https://i.ibb.co/pxp0fdf/heat-pipe.png

When I am doing this fan stuff I am also going to use old centrifugal fans so basically I will add a axial fan under the laptop?

Hey guys,

I live in Canada and I have some quick questions regarding a heat pump that is going to be installed outside at my house.

1). The contractor said they were going to install it on the ground but that location is about 2 feet away from my natural gas lines, is that up to code and standards? (My gas lines run on the external wall)

2). My gas meter is about 7 feet away from the wall they are going to install it in, is that legit as well?

Thank you so much for your input guys! I just want to make sure everything is up to code!

https://imgur.com/a/Ruy9ujt

Hi all!

I recently purchased my first house! Its over 100 years old and there seems to have been some questionable choices made when it comes to DIY over the years.

One of the first major issues im trying to fix is the insulation and overall heat retention of the house.

The front room is leaking warmth like there is no tomorrow and is permanently cold at the moment. I'm currently working on some of the quite brazen hotspots (or coldspots so to speak). One of them being this large hole in the skirting board right by the inner porch door. You can feel the cold breeze if you are anywhere near it.

It appears that someone has cut straight through it in order to access the pipes that appear to connect to our radiator located just to the left of it.

I would rather not replace the entire skirting board as they are a very nice feature that match throughout the house. They are rather high and have nice detailing, I would have to replace the entire room to match which would be much more costly.

I have considered filling with foam and topping with polyfiller but am concerned about this. I have read mixed reviews, some sources say it is dangerous as the foam will melt around a high heat source and create fumes, some say it will damage the pipes, and im overall just unsure.

I could potentially attempt to cut new wood to fill the gap and seal it up somehow, but again I'm unsure on this and how effective it will be.

Has anyone ever dealt with anything like this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

As im sitting here heating my screwdriver like a junkie heats his spoon, im wondering if anyone else keeps tools to manually fix prints mid print and if so what do you use?

Hi, I recently built myself a new PC and chose a Noctua air cooler since I had been using an AIO in my previous build and wanted to mix things up a bit.

I understand both solutions are good and this is not a "water cooling vs air cooling" post, but one of the recurring arguments for air cooling seems to be that "you can basically use the same cooler forever".
However, I know one of the reasons AIO watercoolers have a limited longevity is because the liquid inside will permeate though the tubing and after years of use, there won't be enough liquid left inside the loop to effectively cool your CPU.

I also know that modern heat pipes are not plain copper rods, but rather a tube with liquid inside. So my question is:
Wouldn't the liquid within the rods permeate similarly to AIO coolers (albeit I assume at a slower rate) rendering the air cooler obsolete after a while? And if so, how long would it take?

Thanks!

PS: I've tried googling this topic but since permeation through the wick in heat pipes is part of the mechanism that makes the cooling work, I was not able to find anything about the liquid escaping the pipes altogether.

Anybody know what to do if you have frozen pipes? What’s the best method to prevent them? Trickle water from all your faucets, keep the heat on inside the house to at least 68 degrees. What else?

how many heat pipes do i need per reactor? can i have a 2x2 of reactors connected to enough heat exchangers (and turbines) via only one line of heat pipes, would that be efficient?

On Saturday, I left the apartment for the night, and came back Sunday afternoon, and the hot water wasn’t working. My boyfriend had left the place on Sunday morning and told me it was working.

I had a relative coming over on Sunday, and they took a look at the problem on Monday after I was done with school, with no success.

Tuesday after school I notified my landlord of the problem. I really didn’t want to because I was aware from before that he had a pretty shitty temperament. Now he’s asked me to keep the place to 30, which is far beyond what I can afford (I usually keep it at 18-20). I refused but still got it to 21.

Then he said (or really just yelled) I was keeping the apartment too cold and it should be at least 25. I believe this to be ridiculous. He said it’s because it’s an old building, to which I replied that if he needed me to keep the temperature higher than usual, he should’ve told me. He replied that he shouldn’t have to tell me “basic” things.

He got one of his friends to take a look, and he told me that the apartment should always be at at least 15, to which I said no problem, never been that low anyway. But he reiterated this often saying stuff like “you can’t turn off heating when you leave”, which I don’t?? But obviously they think I do.

I just need some help with this. I don’t know what to do and I’m afraid he could turn this against me somehow.

I live on the top floor of a 4 story apartment building from the early 1900's. The building is heated by a steam system. I had been living here for about 6 years without any issue at all. Nothing out of the ordinary for steam rads.

However, ever since the apartment below me was fully renovated/modernized, the pipes in the walls leading to the radiators have started to bang loudly. This happens every 30-40 minutes for about 30 seconds; obnoxiously loud pipe banging, like someone hitting the pipes with a hammer. It sounds like its coming from the pipes in the wall close to the floor. There are radiators on either side of this wall - one side is kitchen, other side is living room.

My landlord insisted it was one of the radiators, removed the radiator completely - I no longer have a radiator in my living room - the pipe has been capped. The sound is still there, same volume/frequency.

This seems to be affecting the 4 units on this vertical line - No other units in the building have this issue.

I think that it's to do with the modernization of the unit below me - as upon completion of the renovation - the sound started. The unit below me has new radiators that are smaller, wall hanging units.

I've been inside the unit below me and noticed that the sound is coming from his ceiling. So its has something to do with the piping between his ceiling and my floor.

The most recent reason I was given was this:

"The system and pipes are old and may be some potential rust build-up inside the piping that could block the steam trap at the bottom of that riser which we cleaned in May, 2021 (end of season) and replaced the bottom steam trap in the unit on the first floor.
Another potential factor which may contribute to the noise in your unit could be from the accumulation of condensed water when the steam gets trapped inside the branch piping of the living room radiator which we capped "

Any advice or thoughts would be so appreciated.

**My landlord is a multibillion dollar property corporation, known for renovating old buildings and doing anything they can to get old tenants out so they can reno and charge more.**

Thanks in advance.

Title explains most of it, our landlord is holding us accountable for damages caused by a burst pipe, recently the weather has been below 20 and we got a ton of snow, great no issue but our homes heat was broken and our house was 35 degrees for a week while we waited to get out heater to be fixed from them. Naturally the pipes froze over and burst when things warmed up because we were suffering sub freezing temperatures in our home.

Is there anything we can do to defend this? In the lease agreement it says burst pipes are liable to the tenants but we couldn’t have done anything to prevent this due to the lack of the landlords ability to repairs the houses heat.

Thanks for any input.

So like the post says, boiler runs but no heat. I have dual zone and the first floor thermostat is completely dead, even after changing the batteries. 2nd floor thermostat “works”, I can adjust and do whatever, but the heat doesn’t come on. I will be replacing the 1st floor thermostat when I get home. If that doesn’t fix it, how fucked could I be?

ETA: Hot water baseboard heaters