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Archive for May, 2017

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Vacuum Pumps and Common Sense

Many big buildings in our older cities use vacuum pumps to create a negative pressure in their condensate-return lines. This below-atmospheric pressure, which averages ar...

Published on 05/22/2017 10:18 AM by Dan Holohan
Posted in Steam Heating
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Life's Painful Lessons

The most-immovable object I ever merrily walked into in the moist darkness of an old building's basement was the downturned, fully extended stem of a large OS&Y steam val...

Published on 05/22/2017 9:32 AM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business