Steam Heat - 1 pipe system - worth turning one radiator off?
I have an ~ 80 year old house, with a 1 pipe steam heating system.
This is our 2nd winter in it. There is one room that we do not use much upstairs (4 rooms upstairs, ~ 1,100 sqft total. Is it worth turning off this radiator, or would the savings be negligible? Looking at it briefly it seems as if it obviously would save $, but in reality the boiler runs for ~ 15 minutes before it starts feeding steam through the house, and then say another 10 minutes while steam is delivered. By closing off one of the 10 radiators in the house, I don't think the boiler runs that much less (I haven't tried timing it). This is a room we keep open, becuase we want it 60 F, so it is not as if we are shutting it off from the rest of the house, in which case a savings would be obvious. Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks, Chris |
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