Megasteam Boiler Install in July (Steamhead & Gordo)

bob young

love the wye on the hartford loop. ya just don't see that kinda primo pipefitting anymore. beauty.

Steamhead (in transit)

Here are the Before Pictures

This old oil-fired coal-era boiler had long since reached the end of it's useful life. These pictures were taken during our decommissioning to get it ready to be removed by an asbestos abatement and demo crew.




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Steamhead (in transit)

And Here are the After Pictures...

The really nice thing about doing a residential steam boiler install in July, is that you can take your time.

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sootmonkey

Nice

Very nice job.....THAT is one to be proud of. The customer picked the right crew.

Keith_8

looks great

That install looks like a trophy, nice job.

Does the customer have any plans on insulating the piping?

Must be pretty toasty down there in the winter.

Keith

Steamhead (in transit)

Yes, they will

at least the near-boiler piping. The other side of the basement is a family room, so they do need some heat there.

As you might see in the pics, the old boiler was several feet into the family room. It was surrounded by red tiles. We moved the MegaSteam so it would be completely in the utility area. Now they can run a partition to separate the two areas if they wish.

The old boiler was a National dry-base all-fuel Heat Extractor with a Sunray FC flame-retention burner. We had it running pretty well, with flueway baffles to "cheat the chimney", but the MegaSteam makes steam much more quickly. And it runs much more quietly, too!

Those of you who haven't installed a MegaSteam- what are you waiting for?

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Jim_64

Sweet!

Beautiful job,although I'm not surprised!

billtwocase

nice job

I'm guessing the old National was a bit heavy goin out. Excellent work. peace

Steamhead (in transit)

We

sub-contracted that job, to the same company that did the asbestos.

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Dan Foley

Mega Steam

Nice job on the Mega Steam, Frank & Gordo. We are doing one in a few weeks. I agree with you on the summer steamer replacements - a lot less pressure! Now if we could just get it with a gas burner.......

- DF

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Unknown

Sweet!

Very nice lookin' job!

Paul Fredricks_9

Frank

I believe that Burnham has a piping kit for the Mega Steam. Is that what you used?

Steamhead (in transit)

Nope

that kit only has a 2-inch header, at least in the smaller sizes. We did buy one last time to see what was in it, used some of it on that one and some on this one. On both we built a 2-1/2" header.

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Mad Dog_2

Top notch guys

Mad Dog

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Steamhead (in transit)

Thanks for All Your Replies

Only one slight issue we had with the MagaSteam was the gauge glass positioning.

As you can see from the photo, we had to switch the door hinges from the left to the right (a nice feature, by the way!). This made the sight glass drain a bit hard to work on. Whenever we can, we install a proper blow-down valve to any sight glass, replacing the so-called "valve" supplied with the gauge.

We added 1/2" brass nipples, tees, and plugs to move the gauge glass away from the door hinges, thus providing good access to the new gauge glass drain valve.

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Steamhead

Update and Pics

The owner called us this morning to say he just got an oil delivery that was half of what he usually gets this time of year. Not sure how this figures on a gallons-per-degree-day basis, but we plan to work this out for the whole season next spring.



Besides replacing the boiler, the only change we made this time was a programmable thermostat. It's too early to tell if these resulted in an actual 50% reduction in fuel consumption, but we'll definitely be watching this one. We had done a vent upgrade and tuned the old burner at the start of last season, which resulted in their own fuel savings.



Since I can't re-attach pics to the original posts from the old Wall, here they are: