Before/After Steam

Dan Foley

Before:

Brian and Poppy re-piped this IN-6 the past two days. The copper header was leaking at the soldered joints.

The system knocked and hammered as was slow to heat due to the lack of main venting.

The wet returns were clogged and leaking.

This one was located in Cleveland Park, DC. It was originally a Paul System but the vents had long been replaced and most of the return tubing was gone.

Dan Foley

After:

All the near boiler piping and header were re-piped. The wet returns were cut out and replaced. Main vents were added and all the radiator vents were replaced.

Dan Foley

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EzzyT

Nice looking repipe @Dan Foley

Steamhead

Agreed.

New England SteamWorks

The detective/historian in me always tries to figure out what was originally there. Sometimes it's a real head-scratcher, and from your pictures that's how this job appears to be. Of course you had the benefit of seeing the big picture first hand, and maybe it's pretty clear what was originally there, and we just miss it in the photos. But what strikes me first is that the take-offs are 90's instead of 45's, and what's with that 4" coupling?!

Are there just the two supplies, with one looking to be 2" (with a weird vertical 45 before dropping) and the other only 1-1/4"?

Almost looks like the original was knuckle headed, except that that is an exceedingly rare thing to find.

One thing is for sure, the original contractor spared no expense with that beautiful 1" copper "header". Thrifty too. Why fool around when you can make a straight shot to the supply?