I Don't Like Mondays

New England SteamWorks

And it's not just the silicone chip...

It's 3-1/2" supplies, 7 returns, hot water loops, about 10,000lbs, and the Patriots lose:

New England SteamWorks

But I think Tuesday will be better...

gerry gill

Thats gonna keep you busy for awhile!! But you can handle it!

Steamhead

What's going in to replace that old Mills?

Edit- the answer just popped up.

Dave0176

Nice, staying oil or going to gas?

STEVEusaPA

I want to work for @New England SteamWorks when I grow up.

Steamhead

@STEVEusaPA , in our case it should be "if we ever grow up"

New England SteamWorks

Boy was I wrong! Tuesday was worse...



Remnants of Florence flooded us right out and off the job!

Sailah

Yeah it was really rainy today. I was thinking of you sitting in my nice dry office

AMservices

At least the boiler is above water.
Had to leave so quick you left your 3' behind.
I pray to get jobs like yours. Nothing like a good Physical/technical challenge to keep you on your toes.
Can't wait to see the finished masterpiece.

EBEBRATT-Ed

I was gonna ask for the 3' aluminum you left behind but @AMservices beat me to it. those 2500 mills used to crack back sections all the time. that's gotta have 40 yrs on it

gerry gill

and you know that wrench will be needed tomorrow somewhere else cause thats how luck runs !

New England SteamWorks

Unfortunately, no time to break off and go somewhere else. Schedule is way too tight, and yesterday was a disaster. Instead, time to break out the waders!

Still a long way to go:

gerry gill

cool graphic, what program is that?

New England SteamWorks

I remember when I quoted this job in April that I wanted it for the challenge...

I thought: "Whose going to do this one right besides me?"

But April turned to September and now the phone rings every 15 minutes because the weather finally turned, so one can hardly hold a wrench for the phone...

Add in a hurricane, and:

-again, 4", 3-1/2 ", and 2-1/2" supplies, which means the Big Boy Threader, and 7 returns.

Slow arduous progress, but, -progress none-the-less...






There's still the hot water loop, VXT, electrical, and insulation.

One way or another I suppose, we'll get her done...

Is it Spring yet?

It's oil @Dave0176

It's SketchUp @gerry gill

Fred

It's looking amazing!

AMservices

@New England SteamWorks
"I thought: "Whose going to do this one right besides me?"

That's what I think every steam system i see.

Get er done

gerry gill

Damn- thats some gorgeous pipe work. My hats off to you!

Mike_Sheppard

Great work!!!

I wish I could figure out sketchup. I can’t figure out anything close to what you’re doing with it. Lol

Jackmartin

Nice job.

New England SteamWorks

Exhausted, but done:

New England SteamWorks

I thought someone would get the opening line of the post...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaHAvEEbQOE

Ironman

Beautiful work.

Be glad you're not down south. Even up here in the mountains of VA, we've had all kinds of flooding. I've never seen such a wet summer.

Ironman

I'm curious: why did they stay with oil when there's gas already in the building?

JUGHNE

Great looking work!

Just wondering why oil burner for boiler and 2 gas (?) water heaters?

Steamhead

New England SteamWorks said:

I thought someone would get the opening line of the post...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaHAvEEbQOE

Because no one wants to admit they're old enough to remember when that song came out............

Awesome job!

New England SteamWorks

When I started out you couldn't give gas away. Oil was the ticket. Now it's knee jerk that oil is bad, awful, rotten.

The pendulum swung. It will swing again.

True oil had a few price problems about 6 years ago. But that is done.

Gas in New England is about to have a much bigger price problem (supply vs demand) and don't say I didn't warn you (NIMBY).

Add in:

1. Oil is more efficient than gas

2. Service: nobody is ever going to care about you as much your local oil company because their life blood depends on selling you oil.

3. Lawrence, MA

Oil is good. It always has been, and it always will be. Especially in New England where it is prevalent.

It's nuts to discriminate or fear oil. Every customer is different. This one has an excellent relationship with his oil supplier, so why not take advantage of that extra layer of service, dependability, and efficiency?

The trick is to be equally comfortable, stocked, and versed in both fuels.

Which of course we are...

New England SteamWorks

As evidence, the stream of Nightmare Mondays continues as tomorrow we tackle, this time in a gas conversion, The Chapel

Steamhead

New England SteamWorks said:

When I started out you couldn't give gas away. Oil was the ticket. Now it's knee jerk that oil is bad, awful, rotten.

The pendulum swung. It will swing again.

True oil had a few price problems about 6 years ago. But that is done.

Gas in New England is about to have a much bigger price problem (supply vs demand) and don't say I didn't warn you (NIMBY).

Add in:

1. Oil is more efficient than gas

2. Service: nobody is ever going to care about you as much your local oil company because their life blood depends on selling you oil.

3. Lawrence, MA

Oil is good. It always has been, and it always will be. Especially in New England where it is prevalent.

It's nuts to discriminate or fear oil. Every customer is different. This one has an excellent relationship with his oil supplier, so why not take advantage of that extra layer of service, dependability, and efficiency?

The trick is to be equally comfortable, stocked, and versed in both fuels.

Which of course we are...

I guess that depends on where you are. In the Baltimore area, no one wants oil at all. Those who still use it will convert as soon as they can. Pretty much every oil boiler replacement we do involves converting to gas.

It doesn't help that the four biggest oil suppliers in the area are all owned by the same company- Star Gas Partners. Service departments have been decimated. Our company has picked up a few oil boiler servicing accounts as a result, but all the owners want to switch. There may still be a few smaller companies that do a decent job, but we just keep hearing horror stories from customers.

Case in point, from back when I took a lot more pics than I do now:

https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/132567/one-of-the-worst-maintained-oil-fired-boilers-weve-seen

Dave0176

Same here in NJ, no one wants oil. Even people who have perfectly good boilers want them replaced or a gas gun stuck in. To be honest I haven’t installed an oil fired boiler in ten years, lots of oil boilers have been ripped out and converted though.

Case in point, I installed a gas steam replacement in Jersey City a few years back where they had a waaay oversized gas boiler installed a month prior (long story short, contractor ended up getting sued because the heat just didn’t work, he installed an EG-65 where an EG-40 was all that was needed and did terrible near boiler piping)

Anyway upon initial fire up I noticed gas pressure very low ( it was February and it was cold) I had 3.5” supply and 2.7” manifold. Gas company came tried upping pressure to no avail, the next day they ripped up the street and replaced the gas main. Apparently they had gotten many calls that night and the rep told me too many people converted to gas at once and they weren’t ready. Supply is definitely going to be a problem in the older city’s.

In Newark NJ they’ve been replacing gas mains everywhere you look.

New England SteamWorks

Well, oil in New England is alive and well. We have a few big monopoly-ist companies, but a great many mom and pop oil companies still operating every where. And obviously doing a good enough job to stay in business, -as there is plenty of competition.