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Need some help with the best and the worst (Dan H.)

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  • MW_2
    MW_2 Member Posts: 25
    old

    How is this for old? I actually ran into this thing on a service call.
  • Bill Clinton_5
    Bill Clinton_5 Member Posts: 38
    really old

    Here's one I looked at today. Owner is thinking maybe its gettin on toward time to think about a replacement. Then again coal may come back and he'll need it.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Forgot this one...

    Still running, the owner is a stubborn cuss...
  • joe lambert_2
    joe lambert_2 Member Posts: 61
    Looks like my house

    How did you get into my basement??
  • scared
    scared Member Posts: 1
    Antifreeze in SX

    Is it possible to get the same answer twice? I need an honest plummer/ heating person to tell me what to do!!!!!!!
    Anyone know anyone on Cape Cod?
  • Supply House Rick
    Supply House Rick Member Posts: 1,399
    Here's one of the worst I've seen

    The water must be dizzy before it gets out of the boiler room...
  • Tony_30
    Tony_30 Member Posts: 9


  • Steamhead (in transit)
    Steamhead (in transit) Member Posts: 6,688
    Here ya go

    I hope you file these under "best" ;-) These are full-size versions of jobs we've posted previously, including a couple of steamers where we tied onto existing "generously-sized" piping to get drier steam.

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  • Jim_167
    Jim_167 Member Posts: 11
    Ray

    Nice neat Ray install. How do you like him? I noticed you used a Taco circ control due to the fact that the outputs on the Ray cant handle circ current only zone valves?
  • Glenn Sossin_2
    Glenn Sossin_2 Member Posts: 592
    How not to do radiant in the US

    It has to inflict pain to see this job.

  • duffy_4
    duffy_4 Member Posts: 79


  • duffy_4
    duffy_4 Member Posts: 79


    recent job in chicago
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    DING DING DING!!

    We have a winner! WOW what a mess! (of course, I'm talking about the horror pictures) I can hear Brando now, "The horror,,,,the horror!" LOL...

    Now I don't feel so bad about those cinderblocks under my Munchkin. :)
  • Big Will
    Big Will Member Posts: 395


    Looks like my truck up chucked all over the wall.
  • Big Will
    Big Will Member Posts: 395


    Nice use of the bender I really need to get one. Binford 2000 bendo-matic
  • singh
    singh Member Posts: 866
    That's a winner , Glenn!!!!

    Oh, @$%#!

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  • Mitch_6
    Mitch_6 Member Posts: 549
    Dan check this

    page on my site and I have more.

    http://consolidatedph.com/WOS-Heat.html



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  • Derheatmeister
    Derheatmeister Member Posts: 1,579
    Breckenridge at it's best..

    Here yah go Dan.

    The guy that installed this based the domestic on out door reset..

    Check out the Venting..

    Do you like the Birdsnest of wires..

    How about the access to the boiler..

    I had to do an "Sawzall Surgery" on this one..
  • Derheatmeister
    Derheatmeister Member Posts: 1,579
    Breckenridge at it's best..

    Here yah go Dan.

    The guy that installed this based the domestic hot water on out door reset..

    Check out the Venting..Just open the window and enjoy that mountain air.. and forget about them meters...Just cover them up.

    Do you like the Birds nest of wires..

    How about the access to the boiler..

    I had to do an "Sawzall Surgery" on this one..

    Got to love it...
  • World Plumber
    World Plumber Member Posts: 389


    Dan: I'll be in Ecouen 15 minutes from center city Paris from Nov 10 till Christmas. Installing a ductless heat pump system in a 16th century Chateau. Where You going to be speaking?
    Mark
  • World Plumber
    World Plumber Member Posts: 389


    Dan: some pictures of stuff in Dinan France. I wish I had some of what we took out on my computer. French heating done by an American.

    Mark
  • Timco
    Timco Member Posts: 3,040


    Thanks. Love these units. Correct about the controller, but it is wired for IAR. Runs super smooth...

    Tim
    Just a guy running some pipes.
  • DanHolohan
    DanHolohan Member, Moderator, Administrator Posts: 16,598
    Thanks to everyone!

    I know these will wow the Europeans. I appreciate your help so much. Thanks.
    Retired and loving it.
  • DanHolohan
    DanHolohan Member, Moderator, Administrator Posts: 16,598
    I'll be in Paris

    but it's an invitation-only thing. I'm talking to the top boiler guys.
    Retired and loving it.
  • Maine/Baltimore Doug_5
    Maine/Baltimore Doug_5 Member Posts: 4
    sent some by mail

    of steam to HW
  • Moses
    Moses Member Posts: 93


    Dan here are some my pictures from various jobs.
  • Bob Vennerbeck
    Bob Vennerbeck Member Posts: 105
    a work of art...

    waste-oil over wood into wet-base salvage boiler, 2" gravity loop into 200 gallon buffer tank, tankless DHW loop into gutted electric heater, 6 circulators to zones of salvaged cast-iron baseboard. All gone now except for the baseboard....
  • Bob Vennerbeck
    Bob Vennerbeck Member Posts: 105
    a work of art I inherited...

    homebrew waste-oil over cordwood extended firebox uninsulated wet-base boiler, 2" gravity loop through 200 gallon buffer tank, tankless DHW circulated into gutted electric storage tank, 6 circulator zones into cast iron baseboard, and a chimney you could see through in the attic. All gone now except for that glorious baseboard....
  • nicholas bonham-carter
    nicholas bonham-carter Member Posts: 8,578
    wowing the europeans

    don't forget a picture of joe the plumber to warm up the crowd! i am sure without any explanation on your part, they will recognise him.--nbc
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Just when,,,

    you thought you'd seen it all... LOL!
  • DanHolohan
    DanHolohan Member, Moderator, Administrator Posts: 16,598
    Ah!

    The perfect last slide. Thanks!

    Retired and loving it.
  • hydronx_3
    hydronx_3 Member Posts: 35
    if its not too late

    Here is a marginal install.
    1. Not enough boiler clearances to combustiles.
    2. Piped directly to slab no mixing or boiler protection.
    3. PRV dumps right into top of boiler and runs down over the vent fan and gas valve.
    4. There is a full 50 gallons of water perched over the boiler supported by a single 2 x 4

    Glen
  • hydronx_3
    hydronx_3 Member Posts: 35
    nicer ones

    Here are a couple that turned out pretty clean. I like the log background on the one. Too bad I can't get a finished picture, they stuck a whole house vac on one wall and water filtration gizmo on the other one and it blocks my view. I can sympathize now with Marvin the Martian!

    Glen
  • Josh (The Youngster)_2
    Josh (The Youngster)_2 Member Posts: 8


    Who makes that expansion tank? That's pretty slick.
  • Josh (The Youngster)_2
    Josh (The Youngster)_2 Member Posts: 8


    Who makes that expansion tank? That's pretty slick.
  • hydronx_3
    hydronx_3 Member Posts: 35
    exp tank

    It is made by Elbi.
    I painted the one white to give it the appliance look.
    They are nice to install without having to figure out how to support.
    Glen
  • Nron_13
    Nron_13 Member Posts: 164


    Heres a couple of new ones and one old one that was horrible
  • Nron_13
    Nron_13 Member Posts: 164


    Some of the good we have installed and the bad we have seen out there. Hope these help Dan I hope there obvious wich are our installs and which are a mess
  • tim smith
    tim smith Member Posts: 2,807
    Nron, quick not on Prestige pic, you need to change your

    relief valve to vertical, not suppose to be horizontal like that. Just fyi, Tim
  • tim smith
    tim smith Member Posts: 2,807
    Nron, what do you think of the IBC boilers. I saw these a few

    years ago when they were first starting and wondered how they would fare. Good, ok, so so. What's your opinsion. Thanks in advance, Tim
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