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I was once on a problem steam job where the water seemed to vanish from the boiler as soon as the pressure hit its high limit and the burner shut off. There was an automa...

A guy called me to ask if I had any output ratings for some oddball steam radiators he needed to measure before he could replace the boiler. I looked them up and told him...

Due to the efforts of many sharp minds in the steam heating industry and simple economics, standing cast iron steam space heating systems are no longer wastefully being t...

Billy was having a bad day. Mario the Baker had called him first thing that morning to say he was going to drive to Billy’s office and punch him in the face. It seems tha...

Old boiler rooms often are home to steam-heating boilers. Our older cities are loaded with these, and lots of people (knuckleheads included) have had decades to mess with...

I started my career in the heating industry in 1970, when I was 20 years old. I was fresh out of college and my number in the Draft Lottery that year was 355. My father w...

Modular steam boiler systems can look very attractive when it comes time to replace an old steam-heating boiler. The people who sell these systems promise ease of install...

Here are some good tips for you. Base the size of the replacement boiler on the connected load, not the building’s heat loss. The boiler’s ability to produce steam must m...

This was going to be an easy job – one of those in-and-out deals where a guy can make a fast buck, but the truth was he didn't really care whether he got this one or not....

Years ago, in some dank basement, a contractor installed a large air vent near the end of a steam main. He did this because he knew that steam and air are both gases, but...