we thank you guys,you are angels,beleive us. turned on boiler,no heat,boiler comes on ok,notice the two pipes gg to base boards are cold,thought maybe air in system,drain at boiler and no air,then notice the circulator not coming on,go to aquastat and and at c1 c2 measure no volts not calling for heat,kick up thermostat and now measure 110 v there,pull cover off circulator and meaSURE 110V going to the capacitor.I say the capacitor or circulator is bad,does this make sense? if so,what can I do to tell which one might be bad,if not both? If I have to change out the circulator I can isolate the water from the water feed and baseboard from one side of the circulator but no shutoff between the boiler and the other side of the circulator,would I have to drain the boiler to pull the circulator?do you have any idea on the amount of water that would be? the boiler is a oil fired burnham with tankless coil rs-112,142000btu.the boiler at cold is 25psi at 60 degrees and at hot 30 psi 220 degrees,I hope I gave everything you need,thanks again.my wife just yelled,PLEASE,she is not a trooper when she gets cold.

I've got a few questions on the system that will be going into my house next summer. I've been planning on a high efficiency, condensing wall-mounted boiler and hot water baseboards. My calculated heatloss is 47k btu using the SlantFin program. The house is a 1600 square foot two story colonial that is 110 years old. The house is in Massachusetts and is relatively updated and pretty well insulated. The problem I'm running into with planning my system is the amount of baseboard needed. Initially, just because I didn't know better, I assumed a 180 degree supply temp. After reading through some manuals, it looks like most condensing boilers are set at a 140 degree supply temp. The issue is that at 140 degrees, some rooms require more baseboard than there is wall space! For example my living room is roughly 13x18ft. It has 3 windows and one exterior door. 3 walls are exterior walls. SlantFin's program tells me I have roughly 10k btu of heat loss. At a 140 degree supply temp, and SlantFin's Baseline 2000 baseboards (300btu/ft at 140deg).....I'll need 32 feet!!! Holy Smokes! There isn't wall space to accomplish this. There is a staircase on one side, a hearth on the other, and an exterior door. There is roughly 16ft of wall that is usable. The kitchen is even worse! It is the same size and btu load but only has about 14 feet of open wall due to the extensive kitchen counters. So I guess my question is....what would you guys do? Increase the supply temp? Go with a non-condensing unit that has a 180 degree supply? Thanks!