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Crawl Space fun!

STEVEusaPA
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Oil furnace in a flood crawl. I can't imagine anything worse!0
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Where do you find these horrors? EEEK!Br. Jamie, osb
Building superintendent/caretaker, 7200 sq. ft. historic house museum with dependencies in New England0 -
The word is out! They find meJamie Hall said:Where do you find these horrors? EEEK!
I did fix the hanging AC-ready kit/wiring.
Hope he never needs the burner pulled!
steve0 -
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What 993 said!
Agree agree agree agree!!!!!
SFMServing Northern Maine HVAC & Controls. I burn wood, it smells good!0 -
I've got four crawlspaces and zero of them have HVAC equipment unless you count steam pipes.
They call them crawlspaces but what they should really be called is "was too damn lazy to dig a basement". Mine was done in the 1800s so they had an excuse.
What's the excuse now?
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 treatment0 -
Just because it fits, doesn't mean that is where it goes!0
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I have a cubby space like that. Maybe I can get my new boiler in there.0
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A buddy has a house on the ocean that is on top of a 20 ft granite outcropping - 40 ft from his living room to the ocean. His furnace in in a 5ft high hollow in the continental shelf. The house was built in the late forties by a guy that did almost all of it himself. I'll guess he wasn't confident of his abilities with blasting powder.
The good thing is the crawl is usually dry unless there is a hellacious rain storm. There is a sump that was hacked out with a hammer and chisel about 4ft from the furnace with is up on 16" blocks.
BobSmith G8-3 with EZ Gas @ 90,000 BTU, Single pipe steam
Vaporstat with a 12oz cut-out and 4oz cut-in
3PSI gauge1
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