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Re: Burnham Independent Near-Boiler Piping - Seeking Advice

@Mad Dog_2 , @Steamhead : My best estimate is that 99 feet of main piping.

Keep me honest here, please: I measured the insulated main piping you can see in my photos and the additional piping (some of which is not insulated) that leads to each radiator.

The pipe sizes vary, having a hard time getting an estimate because of the insulation. Is there a specific location(s) where it'd be most helpful to know the pipe size? If so, I can remove the insulation. Just don't want to start tearing it down on a whim.

Edit: See below after KC_Jone's post.

milesgem

Re: Chimney liner

The water heater is like 6 months old.

realliveplumber

Re: Derating and/or 2-Stage Steam Boiler for Mouat

I did the math, and it turns out to be 30% oversized.

Harry_6

Derating and/or 2-Stage Steam Boiler for Mouat

I have a job where someone installed a Utica JE 600S based on a radiation survey. Trouble is, it's a Mouat system, so the actual load is 80% of the boiler rating. So I have two problems: The boiler is too big for the load by at least 20%, and it really needs a 2-stage gas train to make controllable operation possible. I had another big boiler where the manufacturer blessed a 2-stage gas train, and I was able to use it with a Mouat with a stable 2 oz steam pressure indefinitely. Since it's a two module boiler, perhaps only firing one set of burners would do the trick, but I think the factory didn't like that idea because of potential thermal problems, with only heating half the iron. Thoughts?

Harry_6

Re: Mod con vs cast iron for my specific home

Hybrid boiler arrangements is not a bad idea. We see it in commercial applications.
One mod con, one cast boiler. A staging control, or a basic electronic aquastat can switch between them.
So you get redundancy, assumed relatability of the cast, efficiency and turn down of the mod con.

I suspect 85% of the season you will run on the mod con based on you radiator assumptions.

hot_rod

Re: Another poor roughing in a Public Restroom

Its getting worse. What caliber of Plumbing Inspector would pass this?? Mad 🐕 Dog
Why do you feel this is Mad?
And what do you think was the reason that toilet ended up so far from the wall?

You know how we get a lot of people on here who complain how hard it is to find a good plumber/hvac company? Well a good inspector needs to be good at their trade, among other things so that immediately shortens up the list. In addition to that in my region an inspector might make up to 3/4 what they could make out in the field, I've been told 1/2 but I have a hard time with that being true across the board.

I am in a region that has a low population and quite a bit of money (vacation destination lots of rich seasonal folks) Our building department actually follows the code, and you wouldn't believe how angry people get about that (on occasion myself included, though I am embarrassed to admit it) It is a difficult job to do correctly, and almost always comes with anger from the people you are meant to work with, and almost never a "Thank you"

In the more populated city areas south of me I have seen that they may hire people with no credentials whatsoever to do inspections , those ones almost always pass. My uncle (from that area) built "the last house I'll ever build" a few years ago and spent a few months studying what code changes happened since he was last in the field. He would labor to make a small change to make sure he was code compliant if he noticed he messed something up. He told me every time he called for inspection the guy would pull up to the house, sit in the car a few minutes and then leave, never asked to see anything.