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Wall of copper - yikes

Here's a photo of my wall of copper.
I wanted a pretty wall of copper art and got ?
This is an install made by my HVAC contractor on my new house.
It's got some "issues".  There's all kinds of interaction going on between zone valves, one zone goes on, another goes cold.  It needs outdoor reset.  The big circulator pump shoves into a manifold connecting inlet and outlet of three thermostatic valves set to 3 different temps.  The little black pump on the right shoves buffer tank return water past the outlet of the big pump in an attempt to move the water the right direction.  It sorta works. 
The boiler is supposed to preheat my electric water heater cold inlet, but it just rockets up to 180F and shuts off, and stops preheating my water HX.
There's some controls issues, but that's my fault.  I figured out i couldn't do what I wanted the way it was plumbed, so I gave up.
My HVAC guy repiped this 3 times.  This is the way he left it.  He didn't know who siegenthaler was, so I bought him a copy of Modern Heating to study.  This was after that.  If he wasn't a good friend, I'd have shot him by now, but I love the big guy like a brother.  Oh well. 
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No problem here,

just hang a curtain in front of the system, and it will look fine.