Job completed

Dave0176

Installed a replacement steam boiler. Williamson GSA100,000
That's me on the right it was Miller time as we fired it up....

vaporvac

WOW!!! That's beautiful. I love those valves How was it going when you fired her up?

KC_Jones

NICE!

wmtandson

Tell me please.
How many man hours ? I wish my customers where willing to
pay for such a great looking job.
Most just ask Can,t you slide a new one under the pipe thats there?

Randy-LeeBraman

Just a beautiful work of art!!!!

Dave0176

Just for comparison here is what I replaced!!!

Dave0176

Total hours, yesterday's install was 13.5 hrs, we broke for lunch for an hr. About 3 hrs ordering parts and picking up material, about 2 hrs taking my time in my garage building the header. About 2 hrs removing the old boiler and setting the area up. About an hr for loading the truck with tools and supplies (I don't keep everything in the van, it's just too heavy and kills gas). An hr when I first got the call and about 3 total hrs of driving. If I'm missing any time I'll just add a buffer of an hr in and say 24-25 hrs.

Snowmelt

That's sweet, do you have a picture of the return and the the Hartford loop.

JudySweetland

Very nice, congrats!

jonny88

Very nice.Was it a hard sell to the customer.?Unfortunatly I find a lot go on price alone and there is many guys out there who would cut out old boiler and slide in new one.I think you just got a customer for life bet it runs like a beauty.

Fred

Beautiful installation!

Snowmelt

I want to do that to my parents house this summer, I'm also going to switch from oil to gas right now there's no header. The other problem or should I say I want to do is put an indirect hot water to the system.

Dave0176

I'll get more pics when I go back to clean and skim the boiler.

Dave0176

jonny88 said:

Very nice.Was it a hard sell to the customer.?Unfortunatly I find a lot go on price alone and there is many guys out there who would cut out old boiler and slide in new one.I think you just got a customer for life bet it runs like a beauty.

No, can't say it was a hard sell. Customer found me here in the find a contractor section. I'm going to assume he reads the forum pages and has an understanding. He actually asked me about adding King valves.

When I sell these jobs I try to do as much explaining as possible. I don't just replace a boiler, I tune the whole system up, new main vents usually I'm adding a lot more then what was there, and I replace all radiator vents too.

Snowmelt

Must of been a nice pay day.

Steamhead

Looks like the boilers were pretty much the same. But with your installation, that system should run much better. Nice work.

Dave0176

Steamhead said:

Looks like the boilers were pretty much the same. But with your installation, that system should run much better. Nice work.

Yep basically, the old boiler was Weil McLain EG40 which was waay oversize and rotted everywhere , the new boiler is Weils knock off Williamson.