Steam-one boiler or two, and, Atmospheric vs Gun

Thereby confirming my original premise of deception.

Yep, that it.

Exactly

Here's a good one:

Designed a replacement system for a huge church complex on Long Island.

Rectory, garage, church and some kind of garage/monkey-house for the help.

Had three 1960s boilers and one rusted out. Three buildings, two pipe steam with four motorized zone valves. One boiler feed pump. One boiler had rotted out and we were called to design replacements. The system was controlled by pressurtrols that cut out boilers one by one on pressure rise.

We measured every one of some 50 radiators and found the system had been perfectly designed. Boilers were properly sized as were the radiators. The Archdiocese of Brooklyn knew its stuff in 1924! We also found a dozen bad traps and half dozen bad radiator valves.

We specified three new Burnham boilers, a great sequential control system and repairs.

Go back to do a final inspection and we found the plumber installed one Mammoth-sized boiler with welded pipe and an overflow trap controlling the boiler level about a foot too high. The feed pump was vented out the brick wall and was spitting steam. The bad traps were replaced with pipe nipples, as were the bad valves.

The pastor told us "the plumber thought it would be better this way, even if it was more expensive".

Don't you think we got the call when their heating bill doubled?

Why pay an engineer when you throw the report in the garbage? What a shame.

Common sense is not very common...Mad Dog

Can't fix stupid!