chris n

I am a painter,wallpaper hanger by trade but also a homeowner in search of an answer. I have an old house with 1 pipe steam heat. We have lived here for 25 years listening to the sound of the radiators all hissing madly on the second floor and never thought much of it. Well I then learned that this was not right ,( as you guys know). I have replaced all the vents,adjustable ones to the 3 closest to the thermostat(adjusted as low as it will go,#1)and the system is working very well,that is, no more hissing. The problem is now the upstairs,and all other radiators farther away from the boiler barely get warm,even if the thermostat is set at 75. This means that the wife gets up to a COLD bathroom and this is not a good thing. I was thinking of a remote thermostat to put on the second floor. I know this is going to make the 1st floor very warm but the bathroom just needs to not be cold. Any other ideas? I am lost here.
Thanks
Chris

HeatPro

When the rooms upstairs and distant become cold, it is from the vents in those rooms having holes too small and the ones in the warm rooms, especially the room with the thermostat too large. Change/swap/adjust the vents until the heat is even.

http://www.heatpro.us/steamtree/docu...0D68C04F9.html

Moving thermostats to other rooms just makes the ones that are comfortable too hot otherwise.

http://www.heatpro.us/service/xtstat.htm

Many think it is the thermostat that does the house heating, really they just start and stop the burner in a steam system. Thermostats just sense the temperature in the room they are in. Remote thermostats sense the temperature of the room the remote sensor is in, they don't change the whole house. Residential steam systems don't favor zoning at reasonable expense; they are single-zone inefficient antiques left over in uninsulated houses that use three times the heat of a new house.