Looking for ideas for future videos Please let me know

RayWohlfarth · April 4

I want to provide videos to help you or your employees in the field and need your guidance. Are there any boiler training subjects you would like me to cover? Thanks for your input

Ray

leonz · April 4

Helo Mr. Wohlfarth,

I would love to see you explain how people can be better persuaded/convinced to keep their steam heating systems as they are more reliable that circuit boards that can be fried in a millisecond by a voltage spike.

I hate seeing steam heating systems cut up and scrapped for heat pumps and air handlers.

RayWohlfarth · April 4

@leonz Thats a great idea Thanks

leonz · April 4

Hello Mr. Wohlfarth,

I always want to yell when I see the "this old house" people rip out perfectly good intact steam systems for the sake of installing heat pumps to obtain more efficient heating systems and whole house air conditioning using high velocity air ducting.

It would be more beneficial for their PBS program and their viewers to explain in complete honesty the mechanical and electrical problems that occur with heat pumps due to lightning, brown outs and power surges and how long it can take to obtain circuit boards for these repairs. It would piss off people but losing a sale versus losing a potential 40 year customer relationship when you are servicing their boiler is always better.

Speaking as homeowner,

I would rather see them be open and honest about steam and hot water heating explaining in greater detail how using both overhead and bottom fed gravity hot water heating provides slow even heating in a home that is being updated with massive structural and mechanical repairs as well as the benefits of using overhead dry steam and overhead hot water with the newer panel radiators.

In all the years I have watched this old house I do not remember them ever visiting or updating a home with overhead hot water heating or one pipe overhead dry steam heating by installing a new boiler to replace an old leaking boiler or to simply add immersed sensor low water cut off switches for both hot water and steam systems and new steam controls and water feeders for boilers in good condition.

Larry Weingarten · April 4

Hi Ray, I'd like to see anything about corrosion. Where and when it happens, how to prevent it… or slow it down. What the effects of rust and corrosion are in a system. How to identify it, even if it's not plainly visible. As a former member of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers, it seems to me that we suffer a huge cost and simply accept it, thinking that's just how it is.

Yours, Larry

RayWohlfarth · April 4

@leonz First of all its Ray and not Mr. I agree 100% and I do yell at the Tv saying the people are crazy for doing it LOL

@Larry Weingarten I may have to pick your brain for that video

Peregrine · April 4

how bout combustion analysis; diagnosis, troubleshooting and adjustments.

best

RayWohlfarth · April 4

@Peregrine Thanks that's a great idea

hot_rod · April 4

Hands on videos are quite popular. You in the video showing or explaining something, anything.

Keep it honest and real. So much bad and often dangerous info floating around online.

Get a lapel mike and tripod. Maybe some lighting for dark rooms.

It is hard to know what gets folks to click on. Sometimes the simplest and shortest vids get the most attention. There is a lot of competition out there

Steamhead · April 4

https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1851068#Comment_1851068

https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1851076#Comment_1851076

I've always wondered if some of their "sponsors" or "contributors" are telling them to do this.

pecmsg · April 4

troubleshooting

Electrical high and low voltage

Circulators

X tanks

hot_rod · April 4

https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1851142#Comment_1851142

I think more often a homeowner or contractor contacts the show with a project idea. Then products and sponsors are contacted to get involved.

Although after 45 seasons of This Old House, finding fresh, new, exciting content, as Ray is experiencing, is not always so simple.

Ross Trethewey, Rich's son seem to ferret out the newest and latest technology products and methods.

mattmia2 · April 4

https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1851131#Comment_1851131

I haven't watched the last combustion video yet but maybe break it down in to enough pieces that you can cover it well? Like the part no one will tell me and only seems to be covered in some books that have been out of print for 50 years.

mattmia2 · April 4

Mini split heat pumps and electronic controls aren't inherently unreliable. Because of cost pressures and probably a few other factors most of the mini splits out there are complete garbage. That is in no way inherent to the technology.

Your car is run buy many systems far more complex than a mini split and the failures of the controls are rare and it is very rarely the control processor or its electronics, it is usually a sensor of some sort when a failure does occur. If electronics are designed for the environment that they are to be used in they are very reliable.