When The Header Is Smaller Than The Supply Mains...

New England SteamWorks

Things don't work out too well...

Steamhead

The installer must have had small hands

JUGHNE

Would you call that a "double header"?

Fred

JUGHNE said:

Would you call that a "double header"?

Or just double trouble?

KC_Jones

Someone went to a lot of extra effort to do it wrong didn't they? With all the new piping I see they could have brought those mains down to the new header individually and with roughly the same amount of pipe and fittings they used. At least the piping on the boiler looks like minimum spec...if you ignore pipe sizes. lol

New England SteamWorks

So, what if we were to Holohanitize it?

Something like this perhaps?

Steamhead

Nice! And of course they could tell the difference right away when you started it up..................

New England SteamWorks

Add a header for the vaporstat and low pressure gauge...

New England SteamWorks

And maybe a little extra venting...

New England SteamWorks

All set for winter!

Fred

Too Nice!

STEVEusaPA

Hey RI, can you post back around January with a performance update? Maybe a little before/after gas usage, plus some happy comments from the homeowner.
Thanks

New England SteamWorks

I will! Promise. The owner is very detail orientated (as you would expect from someone who has their boiler re-piped) and keeps records of usage by degree day. He promised to share the data with me. I was thinking though to wait until heating season was over to post it. If it's like my others, should see pretty big savings.

EzzyT

Beautiful repipe you got there @RI_SteamWorks

gerry gill

Yes, outstanding repipe!

hvacfreak2

Fantastic job , just wow ..