Steam Replacement Beechwood NJ

Dave0176

Not many steam systems in at the Jersey shore so I was surprised when he called, but wasn’t surprised he couldn’t find any local plumbers to do the replacement. It was a Utica PEG150 375 sq ft connected to 540 sq ft of radiation, needless to say it didn’t work. The house was also piped in all 3” steam mains. Not sure why but I guess someone had some money to spend back in the day. I went back and forth between the EG65 and the EG55 ultimately I decided to go in with the EG55 figuring it’s almost 700 sq ft with the pickup factor added.

Doing this job by myself so I’m beat up right now.

EBEBRATT-Ed

Very nice @Dave0176

A few long days I am sure and they do beat you up

dennis53

Looks great,  nice job.

STEVEusaPA

Killer! Awesome!

Danny Scully

See, to me, you slapped the dead men in the face by removing that 4” header 😉. They’re laughing at you feeling beat up, saying “you’d feel a hell of a lot better if you didn’t removed our header and separate the mains that you already thought were oversized.” 🤣

On a serious note, it looks pretty as always. I hope the paycheck looks pretty too.

Dave0176

Danny Scully said:

See, to me, you slapped the dead men in the face by removing that 4” header 😉. They’re laughing at you feeling beat up, saying “you’d feel a hell of a lot better if you didn’t removed our header and separate the mains that you already thought were oversized.” 🤣

On a serious note, it looks pretty as always. I hope the paycheck looks pretty too.

Yeah Danny @Danny Scully they definitely were stabbing me in the back however only because I built a better 4” header lol......,, Thanks man I’m working for this one.

ChrisJ

Look at the nice full port valve on the fuel pipe.  It never even occurred to me before but now that stands out as a huge minor detail to me.

clammy

Nice work and good spinning . I do like the 2 1/2 reducing ell for blow down very nice feature of your work . Keep up the great work and get a back massage .peace and good luck clammy

EzzyT

Beautiful job as always Dave. 

Ironman

Attaboy Dave!

Dave0176

All done!! HO tells me the rads heat in 15-20 mins where they took two hours before lol I think he’ll save some money on the fuel bills this winter.

SteamCrazy

Nice job Looks Great 

Ironman

Nice work!

Dave0176

Thanks everyone for the kind comments, what isn’t seen is the 25’ of 2” wet return piping that was leaking replaced. Two 2” flanged joints on one of the steam mains was leaking, ended up repiping and replacing with unions. It was a big job and my help wasn’t able to be around at this time, I did this at the same time we lost my mother in law due to very bad strokes. Got through it though still comforting my wife as it happened so sudden.

Erin Holohan Haskell

I'm so sorry for your loss, Dave. My heart goes out to you and your family.

LionA29

Condolences to your family @Dave0176