Last month I wrote about early steam heating and how experimentation led to discovery, which led to new products or piping techniques. This time I will be writing about the early days of gravity hot ...

So, I live in an old brownstone in Brooklyn, and it has steam heat and one thermostat for all 8 apartments. The building is four stories - 2 apartments per floor - long skinny apartments reaching ...

If you’re one of the rare regular readers, you know by now that I like steam heat. If asked why, I would say it’s the uniqueness of the jobs I look at. I don’t think that they are ever the same, and I ...

I have a one pipe steam heat system in a 2 story house. The upstairs is consistently about 6 degrees colder. Currently, I have Maid-o-Mist #4 air valves on the first floor and Maid-O-Mist #5 valves on ...

This month, I will continue to discuss the forgotten skills of steam system design. Last month, I touched on several topics, including high- and low-pressure steam, boilers, deaerators, boiler feed ...

To achieve peak efficiency and prevent corrosion, steam and hot water boilers in hydronic heating systems require regular maintenance. Neglecting this can lead to increased service calls and a ...

Our ancient boiler finally bit the dust, so we hired Keyspan / National Grid to replace it with a Burnham IN6 gas-fired steam boiler, for our one-pipe steam heating system. We have a four-story ...

For nearly two decades, Jan Schultz pushed local leaders to improve the efficiency of Burlington’s wood-fired electricity plant. A retired software engineer who served on the board of the Burlington ...