removing a 90 year old one pipe steam radiator

glassman

success!

I managed to move the radiator myself! I used a 2 wheel hand truck and a block of wood that was about an inch shy of the bottom of the radiator to give me some leverage. While it is obviously heavy, I just tilted it slightly and off I went, after I pulled it out of the hole in the floor that it made! 

The floor damage is worse than I expected, I need to replace about 12 linear feet of subfloor first, then cut 1/4" oak up for the parquet floor. I already added a couple of sister beams to the floor joists, so at least I was sure it wasn't going to end up in the basement!

I'm guessing they didn't have nail guns back in 1913, but there are 12 nails in each piece of parquet. There are over 5,000 nails in the floor! Can you imagine doing that by hand, then setting each one? That's insane!

Here's a picture of the aftermath.

Sorry about that, for some reason the picture didn't take.

Again, thanks so much to everyone who responded, I couldn't have done it without you! Something tells me I'll be revisiting when I go to put it back together...The fun never ends!