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Columbia CEG-112 in a nice little rowhouse. Didn't get a pic of the dry-fired Slant/Fin we took out (sorry, Noel). It was piped in 2-inch copper straight up to the steam mains with no header.

We reversed the direction of the header so the boiler would sit closer to the chimney, cutting down on a long smoke-pipe run.

A Gorton #2 vent on the long main and a #1 on the short main balanced the system. It's a one-pipe system using recessed cast-iron convectors.

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jesse the great

Steamhead

Looks mint. What size tappings does that columbia come with?
The dunkirks that I use are 2 1/2 and yours look the same but I cant tell just curious

Ted Robinson

New installation

Would you mind pointing out where the Hartford loop connection is placed?

Jamie_6

Once again what a great looking job Steamhead!

Ted, The Hartford loop on this install is the cooper pipe (it looks like it may be a 2" pipe) directly to the left of the sight glass. If you look closely at the picture you can tell it is a few inches below the water line!


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Thanks for the "pointer", Bob!

All the steam pipes around the boiler are 2-inch, as specified. The steam tappings are both 2-inch. Larger boilers in this series call for 2-1/2-inch or 3-inch headers, but they all have 2-inch tappings.

We tied onto the existing return and ran 1-1/2-inch to form the Hartford Loop, going into the bull of the tee in the equalizer. We had to use an extra pair of elbows to shorten the horizontal pipe where it ties into the equalizer. If we hadn't done this the resulting long pipe would have caused banging.

We had some electrical trouble with this job. It looked like a bad spark module during testing, but turned out to be a wire in the old thermostat cable grounding against the steam main. The old boiler had millivolt controls so there wasn't enough voltage to make it ground out, but the Columbia's 24-volt control system made it ground out nicely. I ran a new cable and secured it away from the steam main and it worked fine.

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bob_44

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Nice work Frank

I'm a little envious of the room you had there . Are those 2 by 1 1/2 by 1 1/2 black tees hard to come by ?

Nina K

Thanks, Frank & heatinghelp!

I'm the homeowner for this job, and I just wanted to publicly say thanks to Frank for being so easy to work with and doing such a great installation.

I knew nothing about heating when I went into this, and I have learned a whole lot. The best thing I did was go to heatinghelp.com and start to learn about steam! Thanks to those who keep this site running.

Regards,
Nina (in Baltimore)