Troubleshooting the Cuckoo’s Nest

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Troubleshooting the Cuckoo’s Nest

If you can work a steam-heating system back into the shape it was in when new (that being fast, quiet and efficient), your customers will never go anywhere else. And they will tell everyone they know that you are the best around.

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larrybard

I am not a heating specialist -- nor even minimally knowledgeable about this area (I'm actually a retired lawyer) -- but I can't begin to describe how much pleasure it gives me to read such articles. So well written, so unassailably logical . . . so entertaining in their own way. Thank you so much, from someone on the sidelines who is consistently impressed with your expert knowledge and experience and how effectively you convey so much of it to an audience that doubtlessly benefits enormously from it all.

DanHolohan

Thanks, @larrybard! I appreciate you. 

briski58

Yeah Dan likewise!!! Every time I login I learn more and more about steam heating!! Thank You!

DanHolohan

Great to know that! Thanks, @briski58

jep

I always love reading these entries. I learn so much . . . engineering at the turn of the century was already so developed . . . but I guess even the Romans had steam baths.

Steamhead

So, did they ever get that building straightened out?

DanHolohan

I don’t know, Steamhead. I like to think in optimistic terms. The boiler is half full!

mattmia2

Because the other half is being thrown up in to the mains faster than it can return...

CurtisD

I've personally learned alot from Dan Holohan over the years and moving recently from the northeast to NC,SC area have found this exact issue all over with steam heat being ran at 8 psi & up without even the technicians understanding the issues. I try to teach what ive learned and the use of a left handed screw driver.

DanHolohan

Thanks for trying!

bporter1

I worked in Greensboro NC, and I was surprised to find a lot of one pipe steam in the older homes. Some homeowners ripped out the piping and the radiators, but most kept them. The guys I worked with at the time had no clue what steam heat was- let alone a boiler.

Anthony Menafro

I absolutely love the challenges that steam heat brings!