tips for boiler moving?

steve_6

how do you guys move packaged cast iron residential boilers into a basement???

zeb_3

Moving a boiler

Get an appliance hand truck, good rope, and a bunch of help. The rope goes from hand truck to something strongly stationary and a man.

Gregg Jackson

the best way...........

is to have someone else do it. Our boiler ripping subcontractor will bring the new one down if it is there on site. In the real world, though, this doesn't always happen Try checking out the Escalera hand truck www.handtruck.com. I will be getting one soon. I saw one work and it's amazing. The one with the forks will raise and lower your load too.

Gregg

Tim Carlson

I second

the Escalara. Had one for four years now, have beat the living daylights out of it, and it's still on the job. I don't know how we would get along without it.

Definitely spring for the forks and the flat fork palate.

Tim

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EricR_2

Our main supplier

Rampart Supply offers their service to help move equipment in and out when you purchase the equipment from them. They have a couple of power dollies and the experienced people to do it. I wish that they offered this invaluable service 10 or 15 years ago, sure would have saved my back.
Eric

Boilerpro

My way...

Is to size them right. I use atmospheric gas and I've only had a couple of homes that needed a boiler over 140,000 input, which keeps the weight down. On many of these jobs, the competing contractor was going to install a boiler at least 60% bigger (one of our local Weil McLain suppliers is still telling contractors to size to radiation on hot water). For the homes bigger than this, I've often used two boilers step fired with a two stage thermostat or a tekmar control. Oil units, I imagine, are alot heavier in these sizes.

Boilerpro

jim f

try using pieces of black pipe to roll your boiler.very efficent on the back

billygoat22

boiler moving

We use an Electrotruck. Its like a refrigerator truck but the wheels move up and down independant of the toe plate. It can "walk" the boiler up stairs and onto the truck. Ours also has a second set of pneumatic tires for rolling across soft lawns. I borrowed it last weekend to pick up a woodstove. Rolled it out the house and put it on my truck by myself. I don't recommend using this on a pickup tailgate, mine bowed under the weight.

Jim_47

Lift'in heavy stuff...

I have a 2nd hand stair climber that I bought before looking at all the rest on the market. Mine only climbs a maximum 12 inch step. Not very helpfull in and out of the truck. When I replace this one (soon) I will get one that can take the boiler out of a pickup truck and set it on the ground. Also, before you buy one, if you are not near the dealer and cannot get a demo, insist on a video of the product. Like I said, I will be selling mine and buying a better model.