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Looong gone!

lchmb
lchmb Member Posts: 2,997
in THE MAIN WALL
HOLY XXXX.....I'd run screaming... that's scary..

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  • Timco
    Timco Member Posts: 3,040


    Guy calls me and says he has an older boiler that he would like to get running. I go out & look and this is what greets me. The 5 units that need heat are the top floors, but of course this beast ran both main floors at one time as well. I politely said no way, Jose! May get to salvage the rads, though! Must be 35 of them still hooked up, but supplies & returns cut everywhere.

    Tim
    Just a guy running some pipes.
  • Jeff Lawrence_25
    Jeff Lawrence_25 Member Posts: 746
    I love a challenge

    But not this one.

    I'd walk, NO, run away. Fast.

    There is one to describe this one. Liability.

    'nuff said.....

  • ttekushan_3
    ttekushan_3 Member Posts: 961
    What could possibly go wrong?

    Everything in that basement looks just as scary as the boiler's gas train! At least the boiler isn't hooked up; everything else down there IS.

    Terry T

    steam; proportioned minitube; trapless; jet pump return; vac vent. New Yorker CGS30C

  • DaveStroman2
    DaveStroman2 Member Posts: 21


    The only thing worth saving are the radiators. And probably half of them leak. But I would save them all too.

    Here is a pic from an old Am. Rad. book.

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  • Steamhead (in transit)
    Steamhead (in transit) Member Posts: 6,688
    That's Vapor

    with a new boiler and the pipes fixed, it would probably work fine... unless the current owner was the one who hooked up that water heater flue pipe, then I'd run......

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  • Timco
    Timco Member Posts: 3,040


    Problem is that the mains have been cut in many places, and the supplies & returns were cut half way down the walls of the main level. Also, all rads on the main floors are gone. I have declined to repair the fallen gas line as I have no idea what would be getting gas when it was repaired. I am sure he will find someone willing to roll the dice and hook it back up. I told him to go with RTU's from a bigger company.

    Tim
    Just a guy running some pipes.
  • DaveStroman2
    DaveStroman2 Member Posts: 21




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  • Al Letellier_9
    Al Letellier_9 Member Posts: 929
    oldie and no so goodie....

    Only two options on that one.....and you picked one of them. RUN. The other is a no brainer also...total and complete demolition and start from scratch. Don't get too many opportunities to install a new steam system these days....maybe worth thinking about?
  • bigwilly104
    bigwilly104 Member Posts: 50
    That is scary

    > Only two options on that one.....and you picked

    > one of them. RUN. The other is a no brainer

    > also...total and complete demolition and start

    > from scratch. Don't get too many opportunities to

    > install a new steam system these days....maybe

    > worth thinking about?



  • bigwilly104
    bigwilly104 Member Posts: 50
    That is scary

    But the boiler face looks really cool. I would love to get my hands on somthing like that and just cut the face of with a torch and mount it on the shop wall. I love both the flue pipes. I do object to the twine holding the flue for the furnace. At my company I only alow black twine its just so much more profesional.
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