Steam professional in Northeastern PA?

LanceT

Please provide a phone number so I can reach you.

thanks

saussyHen

Experienced steam professional may be needed near Scranton, PA

After reading more and trying to figure out my system on a shortened timeline (I need to be out of town Tue-Fri of this week and my family is supposed to be moving in), I'm realizing that I may need someone who really knows what they're doing come check things out.

When I search from the link on this site (zip 18510), the closest is someone in NJ (48 miles). I don't think I want to pay that service call fee! Nor do I know if someone from NJ is even licensed to work in PA.

Can anyone recommend anyone in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area?

thanks

jim walsh_2

steam professional

Lance, I am a licensed mechanical contractor in the City of Scranton. I reside approximately 8 miles from Scranton, and have been in this business approximately 25 years. I am very familiar with steam, and am considered to be a pretty good troubleshooter. If you would like me to take a look at your steam system, please get back to me on here, and I'll be happy to help you out.

DanHolohan

Can you hear it knocking?

Opportunity, that is. You should take a Find a Pro ad on this site. The first three months are on me.

Mad Dog_2

Dan is right and THAT is a deal........

Mad Dog

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jim walsh_2

Thanks, Dan. Maybe I'll take you up on that. In the meantime, I'm still waiting to hear from Lance.

Unknown

Coincidence,,,

I was just in Mt Cobb on Friday taking a walk on the old gravity RR. Ever been to the old tunnel? Very cool! Sorry I live 200 miles away though. Still meaning to take Dan up on his offer too. Soon as I finish the one I'm working on may be the right time. Another month maybe.

Iwanttobelieve

Thanks!

I'm heading out of town in about 10 minutes for a four day training class (not steam related

I managed to make a little headway thanks to some free-all (saw someone recommend it on here). I now have heat in 3 of 4 bedrooms that had none and 2 of 3 first floor rooms that previously had none. Closing the pocket doors lets me get the temp up to 68 on the thermostat and the bedrooms (with heat) are comfortably warm. It's enough for the wife to be able to move in with the kids while I'm out of town.

I still have the water out of the vent issues... using small bowls under them to catch the water until I get back in town and have more time to figure it out. I lowered the cut-in on the pressuretrol to 0.5 (was at 2.5) but I wasn't sure how to read the cut-out (it's the dial type under the cover) so I left it alone. I'm still suspecting a pressure problem. Also, we had a lot of work done before we moved in (floors refinished and some drywall work) so maybe some dust got into the valves and into the system.

Also, as I mentioned before, one main valve spews steam while the other does nothing (and the pipe leading to it is cold until the rads get warm then I guess the condensate warms the pipe before the main valve. I also noticed that the main that does nothing appears to have been accidentally painted once (right next to stairs of the same color). So I'll be looking for advice to replace those once I get back into town.

I'll take some photos next week and post them.

Thanks to everyone for the replies. Hopefully I can get this system running well again.

PS. Previous owner was the in-laws. I asked if they had leaky vents, but they had no idea. Many 1st floor ceilings had water damage so I suspect they did... however, they didn't even fix shut-off valves that were spewing more steam than a teakettle so I'm not sure they would have noticed water coming from the vents. They always just say "it's old steam, it's supposed to bang and hiss and spew steam"

LanceT

radiators keep me up at night

Hi.

Can you give me any idea what it will cost for you to come out and check it out? The vents are spitting so badly and the radiators are making so much noise (gurgling and "chinging") that it is keeping me up at night.

I'm positive at least one main vent is bad, but I don't know if there's anywhere to buy quality vents locally.

I already lowered the cut-in from 2.5 to 0.5 and verified that the cut-out is set to +1, but it didn't seem to help at all.

BTW, I tried sending you an email, but it bounced saying that your email address was temporarily disabled or something. Please include a working email in your reply and I can provide my phone number.

thanks

jim walsh_2

Lance, I apologize for not getting back to you sooner. I don't know what the problem is with my e-mail. If you still want me to check out your system, let me know on here, and i'll provide you my wife's e-mail address at her place of employment. She checks hers daily. Thanks.

Mad Dog_2

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Bill_110

We did a lot of tearing out deteriorated plaster and putting in insulation and drywall, in the process having to disconnect and move many of the radiators. One problem we noticed was that, because there really weren't enough pipe hangers in the long cellar runs, when we went to hook the radiators back up the connecting pipe had actually dropped down. This made it really tough to align the fittings on the radiator and the pipe in some places for a good non cross-threading fit. Maybe some of your radiators moved for this drywall work have leaky connections? Anyway, if you decide to do any drywalling yourself make sure you have lots of hangers on your main line, or for insurance prop a 2x4 or something under the piping before you disconnect the radiator above, so you know it will be at the exact same level when you hook it back up.

Steamhead (in transit)

Agreed.

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Jim Pompetti

Dans Right

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