Steam boiler replacement Princeton NJ

Dave0176

They had this fairly young (1995) direct vented Burnham IN5. The boiler was sooo badly rotted that all but one section had two fist sized holes in it. I had told her that I was afraid to touch it in fear it may crumble lol. I wish I had pics of the old boiler but the mess of removing it and my hands forget it. EDR was 287 and she wanted a new installed radiator in her 1st floor bathroom right off the kitchen which had no heat either, so I put a Burnham slenderized 24 EDR rad in bringing total EDR to 311. So in went a Weil McLain EG40. We also replaced all the wet returns as I knew they'd be clogged, and when I cut them open I couldn't believe water actually returned back to the boiler.

EzzyT

Beautiful job as usual Dave

KC_Jones

Are you guys determined to replace every boiler in NJ? lol Always looks good Dave.

EzzyT

@KC_Jones why not there are a ton of them here in nj that are poorly installed.

KC_Jones

Good on you both!

njtommy

if they are willing to pay for quality why stop?
Looks great.

Dave0176

EzzyT said:

@KC_Jones why not there are a ton of them here in nj that are poorly installed.

Ez I say that every time I walk down a dark dingy basement and I see the beast usually with the nice gold piping all around it, and even better I give the old installer credit as he respected the 80 year old piping by just ADAPTING to it

But heck yeah KC were up to that challange.

EzzyT

I hear yea Dave, about 50% of the steam and hydronic boilers I look at the systems themselves have hacked apart and the real challenge is to put everything back to the way there supposed to be

Paul S_3

beautiful work dave....paul s

Fred

Another beauty!

New England SteamWorks

Very, very nice.

Barbara117

I'm the homeowner. Thank you, Dave--you did a fantastic job! Here's a picture of the old boiler.

jonny88

Nice to see your customer appreciates your work,as always looks great.What caused the failure in the original boiler.

ChrisJ

Going by the pictures I'd say #1 lack of proper water treatment and #2 perhaps too much makeup water.

hvacfreak2

ChrisJ said:

Going by the pictures I'd say #1 lack of proper water treatment and #2 perhaps too much makeup water.

Maybe , but the cost cutting measure used in the iron did not help. Somewhere there is the sound of a high end Mercedes - Benz door slamming and a man with a smirk remembering the V series castings.

Beautiful change out b.t.w.