Welcome! Here are the website rules, as well as some tips for using this forum.
Need to contact us? Visit https://heatinghelp.com/contact-us/.
Click here to Find a Contractor in your area.

Another Steamer

EzzyT
EzzyT Member Posts: 1,344
in Strictly Steam
We replaced this piped wrong leaking Utica with a Peerless. Great weather today  to do a boiler.
E-Travis Mechanical LLC
Etravismechanical@gmail.com
201-887-8856
IronmanChrisJPC7060mattmia2JUGHNEDan FoleySTEAM DOCTORkenlmad

Comments

  • ethicalpaul
    ethicalpaul Member Posts: 6,672
    So many Uticas were installed in the 80s-90s in NJ!!

    NJ Steam Homeowner.
    Free NJ and remote steam advice: https://heatinghelp.com/find-a-contractor/detail/new-jersey-steam-help/
    See my sight glass boiler videos: https://bit.ly/3sZW1el

  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 16,501
    Around here it was all Burnhams and most of them failed before their time both water and steam. Nice looking Peerless.

    I guess we have seen worse piping jobs than the old Utica.
    ethicalpaul
  • Ironman
    Ironman Member Posts: 7,555
    Nice nice job, Ezzy.
    Bob Boan
    You can choose to do what you want, but you cannot choose the consequences.
  • ChrisJ
    ChrisJ Member Posts: 16,317
    What's the deal with the cow catcher on the Utica?

    Single pipe 392sqft system with an EG-40 rated for 325sqft and it's silent and balanced at all times.

    CLamb
  • EzzyT
    EzzyT Member Posts: 1,344
    Thank you @Ironman
    E-Travis Mechanical LLC
    Etravismechanical@gmail.com
    201-887-8856
  • ScottSecor
    ScottSecor Member Posts: 902
    I believe the "cow catcher" was designed to prevent items and people from getting burned from the open flame. Coincentally, Utica residential steam boilers are very popular in our area as well. I think we installed two since 1985 and replaced about one hundred. I would bet at least eighty of them had rotted "cow catchers" on them from the gauge glass (and sometime LWCO piping) leaking on them for years.

    @EzzyT , nice job as usual.
    ChrisJJUGHNE
  • offdutytech
    offdutytech Member Posts: 161
    Nice work! Next steamer I install going to ditch the pigtail and pipe the pressutrol like that. Much easier to service. 
    mattmia2

Categories