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Re: Pro opinion on near boiler piping on a new steam boiler.
So your oil company feels fine tuning that boiler is a waste of money. That’s partially true, they sell you that oil.Ollie_Hopnoodle said:I left an email with the installer to come back to fix the draft regulator and install the tee and drain on the wet return. We’ll see. I also called my oil company and had their oil service technician call me back about the combustion analysis test. He told me that it’s a waste of my money and his time to come out and give me a combustion analysis on a brand new boiler. He said he would, but he would feel bad about taking my money. He did recommend that I have the installer fix the draft regulator and install it into a proper location. Then, look at the back of the draft regulator to see if it’s black from soot. If there isn’t any soot, then I shouldn’t worry about it. Otherwise he can come out and take a look. Pretty old school, huh?
Start looking for a different company.
pecmsg
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Re: Pro opinion on near boiler piping on a new steam boiler.
That must be commercial code, no? Houses don't have boiler rooms (nor 1,000 pounds of steam per hour) and I've never seen a house that had an upward-directed discharge like that.
When I read that the first thing that came to mind.....
https://youtu.be/oaVIWpUMcd4
ChrisJ
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Re: Pro opinion on near boiler piping on a new steam boiler.
I left an email with the installer to come back to fix the draft regulator and install the tee and drain on the wet return. We’ll see.
I also called my oil company and had their oil service technician call me back about the combustion analysis test.
He told me that it’s a waste of my money and his time to come out and give me a combustion analysis on a brand new boiler. He said he would, but he would feel bad about taking my money. He did recommend that I have the installer fix the draft regulator and install it into a proper location. Then, look at the back of the draft regulator to see if it’s black from soot. If there isn’t any soot, then I shouldn’t worry about it. Otherwise he can come out and take a look.
Pretty old school, huh?
I also called my oil company and had their oil service technician call me back about the combustion analysis test.
He told me that it’s a waste of my money and his time to come out and give me a combustion analysis on a brand new boiler. He said he would, but he would feel bad about taking my money. He did recommend that I have the installer fix the draft regulator and install it into a proper location. Then, look at the back of the draft regulator to see if it’s black from soot. If there isn’t any soot, then I shouldn’t worry about it. Otherwise he can come out and take a look.
Pretty old school, huh?
Re: What do you make of this?
How many of you were around and thinking about this sort of thing in the late '70s? Yogi Berra said, it's like deja vu all over again...
Re: Watch your ears and prolonged noise...
Working nightly at Nassau Coliseum as a security guard for seven years as my side hustle wrecked my ears. We had cotton balls. Didn’t work out well.
Re: Watch your ears and prolonged noise...
I've got Jimi Hendrix, J. J. Cale, Jefferson Airplane, Jethro Tull and others to thank for my hearing loss those nights at Winterland and Fillmore West. There were no warnings back then.
Re: Removing a ProPress Fitting
I think someone will invent a reverse press tool with little hands that grab the copper molecules and pull them back into the original shape. Use the same technology as the cast iron radiators that "hold the heat" (see related post here) https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1709810#Comment_1709810
