How to Set a Pressuretrol
If you have a steam boiler you’re also going to have a pressuretrol. I’ve always liked that word because it’s a marriage of the words pressure and control, both of which ...
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The Right Pressure for Steam Heating Systems
In this excerpt from his Dead Men’s Steam School seminar, Dan Holohan shares his knowledge about pressuretrols and the optimum pressure for steam heating systems. He talk...
Pressure Reducing Valves in Steam Heating Systems
In this excerpt from his Dead Men’s Steam School seminar, Dan Holohan talks about working on steam heating systems that involve high pressure, such as district heating sy...
Crank It Down?
In 1989, when we started our business The Lovely Marianne asked me what I was going to do to make money for her and our four daughters. I told her I was going to write bo...
How to Set and Adjust the Boiler Pressure Control?
A question often asked is how to adjust the steam boiler pressure controls properly. While it seems like a straight forward thing, it is sometimes confusing because there...
Four Things To Look Out For in Steam-Boiler Pressure Controls
"Something is wrong with the boiler control. I have to keep pushing the reset button,” the frantic school custodian said when I answered the phone one cold January mornin...
Low-Pressure Steam vs. High-Pressure Steam
Some of what I’m about to tell you may be tough to swallow, but it’s all true. If you pay close attention, you’ll understand once and for all why low pressure is good. Le...
Reasons Why You Can't Raise Pressure on the Gauge, and Where to Look for Solutions
You're looking for more pressure than you need. It doesn't take much pressure to heat a building. The Dead Men sized their pipes so that the steam would create a very sli...
What I've Learned About Steam Pressure
It had stood on this corner just off Wall Street in Manhattan for nearly a century. It stood witness to the comings and goings of countless people who never gave much tho...
Steam Piping and Pressure Differential
A New York City contractor called me a last winter to tell me about a situation that he had gotten himself into. We’ll call him Augie because that’s close enough. "The ol...