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The Florists' Review 



July 15, 1920 



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side, with a connecting house of twenty 

 feet between, and the gutters six feet. 

 There will be three feet of glass and 

 three feet of concrete in the walls. The 

 ridge will be about twelve feet. 



The service building will be built on 

 a side hill, 30x46 feet, with the boiler 

 room and garage on the lower floor and 

 the workroom and office on the second. 

 I should like to use steam heat, low 

 pressure preferred, and want to make 

 use of as much of the material I now 

 have as possible. I have about 10,000 

 feet of 2-inch pipe, 150 feet of 3-inch 

 pipe, 1.50 feet of 4-inch pipe and 150 

 feet of 5-inch pipe. 



Should I use a large boiler or two 

 small ones? I intend to erect another 

 house, 35x175 feet, next year. Would it 

 be advisable to use the 2-inch pipe en- 

 tirely in the houses? What size of mains 

 will be necessary? R. R. — O. 



While it would be preferable to use 

 1%-inch pipe for the returns, it will be 

 possible to get fairly satisfactory re- 

 sults if the 2-inch pipes now on hand are 

 used for the return coils. The 2-inch 

 pipes will be ample for supplying re- 

 turns for all of the houses, including 

 the new house to be built next year. 



For the 20-foot houses, one overhead 

 flow pipe under the ridge of each house 

 will answer. The sketch shows three 

 houses on each side of the connecting 

 house, those on the south side to be 

 heated to 60 degrees, while only 52 

 degrees is required in the three houses on 

 the north side of the connecting house. 

 The outer houses in each of the blocks 

 are to have three feet of glass and three 

 feet of concrete in one side and one end 

 wall, while the middle houses in each 

 block have no exposed side walls. 



To heat the outside houses to 60 

 degrees use, in addition to the 2-inch 

 main, six 2-inch returns, while for the 

 middle house of this block only five 

 returns will be needed. In the block 

 for which 52 degrees is desired, five 

 returns will be needed in the outside 

 houses and four returns for the middle 

 house. 



When the new house is built, use three 

 2-inch flow pipes and nine 2-inch returns 

 on each side of the connecting house, 

 or two flows and ten returns may be 

 used in case bottom heat is not desired 

 under the middle benches. 



To supply steam for the old houses 

 run a 4-inch main for the block to be 

 heated to 52 degrees and a 5-inch main 

 for the 60-degree houses. These mains 

 may be carried over the doors leading 

 into the houses. 



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It is noted that a temperature of 

 60 degrees is desired in the east end of 

 the connecting house and 50 degrees at 

 the west end. A 5-inch main will be 

 needed to supply the coils in the house 

 to be erected next year and, when this 

 is installed and 2-inch return pipes for 

 each block of houses have been pro- 

 vided, they will furnish practically all 

 of the heat required for the connecWng 

 house. Until the large house has Jseen 



built it will be advisable to run one 

 2-inch return on each side of the con- 

 necting house, feeding them from the 

 mains which supply the other houses. 

 For the houses to be built this year 

 a 40-horsepower boiler will be ample 

 and a boiler of 60-horsepower will heat 

 the range when completed. While it 

 may be well to have a boiler in reserve, 

 do not use anything less than a 60-hor8e* 

 power boiler in the range. 



