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Topic:   Candidate for worst boiler of the year - 1331 visits (1 today, 1 this week)

neal lewis
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Posts: 649
From:Ridgewood, N.J.
Registered: Jun 2001

posted December 14, 2005 06:16 PM         

Points given for creative use of a license plate!

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John Arnold
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Posts: 605
From:Philadelphia PA
Registered: Dec 2001

posted December 14, 2005 06:39 PM            

I don't see steam boilers very often, but what's up with the color of the water? And the color of the license plate, for that matter.

John Ghent
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Posts: 354
From:Trumbull, CT
Registered: Aug 2001

posted December 15, 2005 03:41 AM            

Steam boiler that the owner put prestone or some such antifreeze in. He took it from the radiator of the car he scrapped to get the license plate.

neal lewis
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Posts: 649
From:Ridgewood, N.J.
Registered: Jun 2001

posted December 15, 2005 05:00 AM         

They will probably need the antifreeze. When I got there, the water level was below the bottom of the glass gauge, and the place is vacant. So obviously, the LWC is clogged and not doing its job.

This multi-family will be a group homes for retarded persons. The whole system will be replaced with a hot water boiler system.

Michael Thomas
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Posts: 162
From:Evanston, IL
Registered: Jul 2005

posted December 15, 2005 09:14 AM            

"Your honor, per the wording of the inspection report, the seller used a "licensed HVAC contractor" to effect the repair... "

Erby Crofutt
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Posts: 1107
From:Georgetown, Kentucky
Registered: Mar 2002

posted December 15, 2005 09:39 AM            

And the contractor left his license behind!

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Erby Crofutt
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Michael Thomas
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Posts: 162
From:Evanston, IL
Registered: Jul 2005

posted December 18, 2005 05:15 PM            

Hum... just learned a lot about antifreeze in hydronic systems:
http://www.raypak.com/afreeze.htm
http://www.heatinghelp.com/pdfs/235.pdf

John Arnold
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Posts: 605
From:Philadelphia PA
Registered: Dec 2001

posted December 18, 2005 05:45 PM            

This is a steam system. My concern, in a steam system, would be that some amount of the antifreeze is going to make it out of the system and into the air.