How About A Little Creative Fun?

New England SteamWorks

Around our area for some reason it's not all that unusual to have a bedroom or two on the 2nd floor that never had steam piped to it. Naturally that creates a hardship, but the catch to a remedy is always where to run the pipe? Tear up a wall in order to make it invisible inside? Run it exposed through the living room? Both options usually don't thrill people in my experience.

But for this one, we were able to get a little creative: Why not hide the new riser inside the pantry cabinet?!

And so we did (the hardest part was finding a matching radiator in the correct size and refurbishing it):

JUGHNE

Looks great and will keep your cookies warm!

ratio

Beautiful radiator. Did you make a jig to drill the shelves?

New England SteamWorks

ratio said:

Beautiful radiator. Did you make a jig to drill the shelves?

No, we did it the old-fashioned way: Plumb bob!

ratio

Nice. The poor fellas I works with can't drill a straight line to save their life.

I'm sure the new radiator works great, but what does the rest of the system look like?

EBEBRATT-Ed

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And you only used 1 coupling. How did you get the pipe in their? Must have made a hole in the roof or the cellar floor LOL

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ratio said:

I'm sure the new radiator works great, but what does the rest of the system look like?

Very nice, thank you. It's undisturbed since the Deadmen installed it, and we've been maintaining it since they died!

STEVEusaPA

I want to see how a creative person is going to remodel that kitchen. That pantry cabinet is coming out in pieces.

New England SteamWorks

@STEVEusaPA , we had a laugh about that. We laughed, because the next kitchen guy is going to wonder: "How in the world did they install that cabinet around that old steam piping?"