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How Boiler Maintenance Affects Life Cycle Costs
Does Maintenance Save Money?There are many numbers thrown about estimating the savings by performing certain maintenance activities. I remember meeting with a potential c...
Boiler-Jacket Loss
A debate has continued in the industry about whether boiler jacket loss should be factored into the calculation of boiler efficiency. Most of the old boiler rooms were ve...
Are Boilers Dangerous?
John was a custodian for a local school district. We used to call him “20 Questions” because he would constantly ply us with questions about the boilers when we would per...
Six Boiler Replacement Mistakes
As we are entering the time that most commercial boiler projects are being planned and installed, I would like to share some common steam boiler oversights that I rarely ...
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...
Reflective Insulation Behind Steam Radiators
You'll sometimes see a thin, reflective insulation barrier between a radiator and the outside wall of a building. The Dead Men installed these to reflect the radiators' r...
Piping Past Obstructions in One-Pipe Steam Heating Systems
Here’s how you’d pass a steam main over a steel beam: The pitch is in the direction of the flow. The steam goes over the beam through a pipe that’s the same size as the m...
Watch an Infrared Film of a Steam Radiator Getting Hot
Reinvent is the nickname of one of the members of The Wall. This is a time-lapse film that shows how steam is lighter than air and will go to the top of the radiator firs...
Alumni Advice
Our daughter, Colleen, is the Executive Director of an AmeriCorps program called the Massachusetts Promise Fellowship. They do very good work out of Northeastern Universi...