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Did the Deadmen screw this one up?

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  • Fred
    Fred Member Posts: 8,542
    We will be anxious to get an update once you go through all the basements!
  • Abracadabra
    Abracadabra Member Posts: 1,948
    edited January 2016
    Waited for 2.5 hours for owner to show up on Friday and he ended up blowing me off. His son tells me he's made his decision to go with someone else. Think I'm done with this one..
    Charlie from wmass
  • jumper
    jumper Member Posts: 2,384
    What if owner calls after new guy screws up?
  • Fred
    Fred Member Posts: 8,542
    Disappointing to say the least.
  • Steamhead
    Steamhead Member Posts: 17,317
    jumper said:

    What if owner calls after new guy screws up?

    Forget it, cause he will have spent all his money on the knucklehead and won't want to pay you.
    All Steamed Up, Inc.
    Towson, MD, USA
    Steam, Vapor & Hot-Water Heating Specialists
    Oil & Gas Burner Service
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    vr608
  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 16,257
    He stated that the rads are 12-14" wide. I don't have a radiation book with me but I don't see getting 5 collumn's in 12-14"
  • Fred
    Fred Member Posts: 8,542
    EBEBRATT-Ed said:

    He stated that the rads are 12-14" wide. I don't have a radiation book with me but I don't see getting 5 collumn's in 12-14"

    I've got a 5 column American Rococo that is 12" wide.
  • nicholas bonham-carter
    nicholas bonham-carter Member Posts: 8,578
    Suppose there were no main or radiator vents on this system.
    It may have relied on high boiler pressure compressing the air inside the rads, which only allowed them to be 1/3 full.--NBC
  • ChrisJ
    ChrisJ Member Posts: 16,231
    nicholas bonham-carter said:

    Suppose there were no main or radiator vents on this system.
    It may have relied on high boiler pressure compressing the air inside the rads, which only allowed them to be 1/3 full.--NBC

    I'd be amazed if you could get steam to even one radiator like that even at 10 PSI.
    Single pipe quasi-vapor system. Typical operating pressure 0.14 - 0.43 oz. EcoSteam ES-20 Advanced Control for Residential Steam boilers. Rectorseal Steamaster water treatment
  • JUGHNE
    JUGHNE Member Posts: 11,254
    It would seem like the steam would stop, but I just am working on a schoolhouse that had 2390 EDR (about 33 CI rad). This is 2 pipe which would be typically vented thru the cond pump. The 2 dry returns teed together and dropped into the wet return downstream of the pump discharge. There was no way for the air to get out, let alone condensate drainage. The pressure was 6 PSI now 2.75. This building heated very badly for over 20 years since boiler was changed. But somehow it did heat.

    The steam did get to rads and the dry returns. The main and returns would flood and only drain back overnight if boiler shut down. The hammer was tremendous, re-piping the returns has helped. (See open venting in boiler room, new posting coming)

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