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How One Missing Pipe Can Make All the Difference
A friend of mine, who is excellent when it comes to old steam systems, posted on HeatingHelp.com about a problem he was having on a job.
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How to Save a Boiler's Life
It's a given these days that all boilers have low-water cutoffs and that makes me very happy because I've seen hot-water boilers explode.
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Baseboard: How Much Is Too Much?
So this hefty gent comes up to me after a hot-water seminar and tells me about a problem he's having with this copper-fintube baseboard loop he installed in this big...
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All Steam Is Not Created Equal
Take a pound of water (that's about a pint), and heat it from 32° F to 212° F.
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Hands In Pockets, Please
Have you ever found yourself in some dank basement staring at (and totally appreciating!) the simple beauty of some old one-pipe, gravity-return steam heating system? You're down there in the...
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A Copper Mystery
We’ve lived in this little house in Bethpage, NY since 1977. Bethpage was once home to Grumman, which built fighter planes, canoes, campers, buses, and the Apollo Lunar Module.
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A Good Time to Check a Vacuum Steam System
Why do we work on heating systems during the winter? Because we’re working on air-conditioning systems during the summer! Makes sense in a last-minute, panicky way, but it’s not the...
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Saving History
Step off of West 44th Street and into the lobby and look to your left. The artists (and we must call them that) who crafted that magnificent marble staircase were masters.
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The Right Tool for the Job
You know the feeling. You are in a tight crawlspace with a 20-foot crawl to the hatch.
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Fathers Be Good to Your Daughters
I can't hear that John Mayer song without thinking about our four daughters, and not just because they'll probably choose my nursing home.
