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This Old House advice on heating, including radiant, solar, geothermal, and other heating options, as well as repair of radiators, furnaces, boilers, water heaters, and more heating equipment

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Heating Tip

If your radiators gurgle, they're not pitched properly. Tuck shims under the legs to move steam toward the pipe for a one-pipe system, or toward the steam trap for a two-pipe system.
— Richard, Trethewey, This Old House plumbing and heating expert

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