Check out this advice for steam system maintenance

Edward A. (Ed) Carey_3

This link was sent to me, through Facebook, by a realtor.



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The information appears to be from a home inspector. 



See if you can spot how many mistakes the home inspector has in only a few paragraphs regarding steam system maintenance.



Some of those mistakes could be dangerous.

 

Regards,



Ed Carey

Steamhead

I stopped counting

sounds like they need to buy a copy of Lost Art!

Edward A. (Ed) Carey_3

Steamhead, I agree

Steamhead,

When I finished that article, I could not believe what I read.

You were smart in that you stopped reading when you did  ,,,,,  :-) 

Ed Carey

David Sutton_6

hmmmm

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The worst part is that there are people who listen the guys like this !!!, i had to back and retest a set up be cause the "home inspector"  looked in the draft reg and said  " it not running right and needs to be serviced"  boy did we have a nice discussion over the phone ;-)

Charlie from wmass

I sent them an email

I also included a link to this thread. So if they take the time to read it and come here lets have something constructive for them. Is that not by the PM publisher?

JohnNY

This is insane....

I'll bet the guy that wrote that has more money than me, too.

Just saying.



Can you imagine where the heck the info in that article might've come from?



The only thing worse than giving no advice is giving bad advice, but there's so much more bad than none on the internet.

jpf321

I think they pulled the article

page not found

Oak Park Electric

It does appear

To be gone.  The link worked earlier today, but like jpf, I am getting nothing now. Maybe somebody paid attention.

ryanr256

found it

here:



http://rismedia.com/rrein/4133/null/%7BSubscriberID%7D/11504





-Bob

Oak Park Electric

Yep it's the same one

But in a different place.  Somebody send them another e mail..     the feedback link is at the bottom of their page.

jpf321

is it publicly available ...

or was it somehow pulled out of google cache or backdoor'ed? 

yeah this guy's got a few things horribly wrong, but in some area's he's at least close ..



i am concerned now that my fiberglass insulation on a 215degF pipe might pose a significant fire hazard ... NOT!

ryanr256

not cached or backdoor'd

I put the title of the article into Google and it was the second link in the results. the first was the original article, which is no longer there. It looks like another location on their web site.



So, if you Google the right words, you can find it.



It's got me worried that all the effort I put in to getting my p-trol to cut out at 1 pound of pressure was for naught because a steam system should operate at 2 to 10 pounds.



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And if you put the title into Google, Google does have a cache of the original article

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-Bob

Edward A. (Ed) Carey_3

It is a concern

It scares me that some homeowners will see that page, and think that they should follow that advice because it is from a "professional".



If some one flushes theri LWCO once a month with the boiler off, they could be the next fire we see on the 6:00 news.



Ans so much more,,,,,,