Oddest Tale of Woe Ever

Cola Parker

We returned home from vacation and found that our landlord (complicated to explain- we live in house owned by a private school) had instead of simply replacing our steam boiler as planned, decided instead to rip out all the radiators and replace with miles of hot water base board. Besides being hideously ugly and ruining the aesthetic of the rooms, it doesn't even heat as nicely as the cranky old steam radiators. So I am probably at great expense and tears going to rip it out and put back a semblence of the old system.

To add insult to injury, all the old radiators have already (5 days later!) been smashed into a thousand pieces and hauled away to a foundry.

Am I crazy? Can it be done? All the old piping remains except for some stems that were cut in the basement ond pulled out. The house is brick and all the water tubing for the new system now just runs up to the second floor in the corners of the rooms. Unbelievable!

REF

How sad

it is to see those radiators go to waste. We are installing a radiant system in a beautiful older victorian, and have removed the old radiators. We did save them. They are just to beautiful to pitch. Maybe you could find some used hot water radiators and use them in your home. There are a lot of choices with a hot water system, and the experts are all around this site. I'm sure you'll get some great suggestions. Best of luck.

Respectfully,
REF

Weezbo

while not as interesting a focal piece.........

Buderas and myson for example make panel rads that act more like your old steam rads although they are looking a bit more recently built and whatnot.... the ones yyou would want have TRV's on them...and you can get them dialed right in and bag the baseboard convectors ..cool?

ScottMP

Really sad.

But you did say " Landlord ", right ?

Scott

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Ken_8

If you are truly

a tenant, you have no say - except as a tenant, you have certain rights of protection from un-anounced trespass.

If the boiler was pulled, the near boiler piping and all the rads as well, there is little left to salvage. Move on unless you want it to get uglier than it already is.

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Mark Eatherton1

A comforting suggestion...

Have your LL install some Enerjee valves on the baseboards and have them convert the system to continuous circ with outdoor reset. This will get you as close to the radiant comfort you're used to. Its not the same, but it's close.

ME

Steamhead

Time to move

your landlord is showing a complete disregard for you, and there's no point in paying for this. Find a better place.

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