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New England SteamWorks

A Weil 380 that was way too big and corroded through. Replacing with an EG-55.

Intplm.

Some of the best workmanship as always..........Looking forward to seeing the final pics.

STEVEusaPA

I'm always amazed.
BTW, are they OEM spec'd paint cans?

New England SteamWorks

Yes! And on this job we’d be lost without them:

Saints

Is that a shipping connector in the pics?

EBEBRATT-Ed

What killed it? Excessive MU water?

retiredguy

Every installation that you post shows that you care about each job and that your work is picture perfect. I am an old timer so my question is where are the cast iron fittings in the new steam piping?

STEAM DOCTOR

@retiredguy. Cast iron fittings are not required in many areas. There is not much upside on low pressure steam. They can be cracked with a sledge hammer but that is mostly unnecessary. These days we have grinders and and heavy metal sawzall blades.

New England SteamWorks

And of course expense factors in too. Those cast fittings aren’t cheap and our installs are loaded as it is. At some point they become unaffordable, which doesn’t do anyone any good.

New England SteamWorks

Coming along...

New England SteamWorks

EBEBRATT-Ed said:

What killed it? Excessive MU water?

We don’t know. New customer for us, and new home for customer. Also, no VXT (yet!).

New England SteamWorks

It’s alive!

STEVEusaPA

Looks awesome (no surprise) except for that lally column blocking complete view

JUGHNE

Great looking job!

Your last picture had me wondering if you were building a false water line. Was that some return flushing set up????the check valve???

Were those lead free paint cans?

New England SteamWorks

The check valve was from the old installation, since removed.

New England SteamWorks

Happy Hour!

STEAM DOCTOR

Beautiful. Is the boiler in a pit?

New England SteamWorks

Yes, it’s in a pit. Very low ceiling. Old boiler was taller and they used blocks, defeating the purpose of the pit. Runs much better now! No more spitting vents.

STEAM DOCTOR

I would talk to customer about installing sump pump in pit. Or maybe some sort of short waterproof wall around the pit. Any water in basement could end up in the pit and floor the boiler.

STEAM DOCTOR

Once you give a disclaimer, it's not you problem if something happens.

New England SteamWorks

Here’s the thing: They didn’t build homes back in the day in areas subject to flooding. We work exclusively with steam. In all the years and zillions of homes, I don’t recall a single one that needed a sump. Dry basements all. Including mine!

STEAM DOCTOR

Let's say water heater starts to leak. Without the pit, water will spread out evenly. With the pit, all the water will end up in the pit and flood the boiler. In any event, it's not your problem. Has one residential customer with boiler in pit. Pit flooded (don't remember circumstances) and it was a mess.

New England SteamWorks

They have an on-demand water heater.

motoguy128

New England SteamWorks said:

Here’s the thing: They didn’t build homes back in the day in areas subject to flooding. We work exclusively with steam. In all the years and zillions of homes, I don’t recall a single one that needed a sump. Dry basements all. Including mine!

Ha. Maybe in your region out East, but certainly not here in Iowa. Lots of wet basements. However, a lot of that IMO is because cities had to separate their combined sewers and homes were forced to disconnect downspouts off the sewer. IT was standard practice here to Connect downspouts directly to the sewer.

Hap_Hazzard

When we bought our house in PA, the seller said they'd never had water in the basement. Our next door neighbor said that was probably true, and the cedar paneling showed no water stains. About two months after we moved in, a hurricane came up the coast and we had a foot of water in the basement. You can never be sure.

Intplm.

A big admirer of your work. Another well done installation. Thank you for sharing.

JUGHNE

We have had more newly wet very old basements.
75 year old woman in the house she was born is had severe problems lately, never before. This is typical.

UG lawn sprinklers and more concrete surfaces might be a cause.
In the summer our water table actually drops because because of massive Ag irrigation surrounding us.

Corn for your gas tank and beans for your heating oil.