Steam Boiler Replacement Using Viega MegaPress
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Boiler installs with your entire crew make for some of your best videos. Nice job.
What is brand name of your watch?
You have the best crew they work together
I’m screaming at my phone “use your pipe reamer on those threads” 😂
Mikey you got a bad ass team, attitude, and tools.
Stop messin" with getting that boiler downstairs 😁! Awesome job !
Great looking insulation job
Mikey pipes baby , nice job I like your work ethics.✌LMTGA
Great video!
Great segment Mikey. Another great install by you and your crew. Seems like you really like the SteamMax line by US boiler. I have an IN7 in my home and it seems that this is what I should install when the time comes
Good job on the boiler by the way
some good QC over there.
Need Frankie there. He would sleep that boiler in place 😀😀😀
Great install
Nice professional job and a great crew
Amazing mike im a new subscrber to you and i love i got so addictive to you and your crew doing great boiler jobs my wife thinks im inlove with you but honestly i really apreciate what u are teaching all the trade students thank you so much i have learned a lot
Welcome aboard!
great job, helpful advise for you, when coming down the stairs on hand truck, raise the handle up so the wheels stop on each step to hold the weight rather than the sled technique, also the hartford loop looked high but could just be the angle of camera, should be 2" below normal water level. may want to fire it up before insulating in case of leak, very nice job!
@@PipeDoctor very good
Was up MP!! Allot of times on 2" pipe and larger, start counter clock wise until you feel the pipe sit then tighten slow. 👍🏼
TEAMWORK!
The kid on the stairs heard you. They may learn some new words today. They could learn a trade and be corrupted like young Peter. LOL Make the trades great again.
What is the reasoning for no drip leg in NYC?
That mark on the tapping is a witness mark from the guy that tested the sections! Its from the pipe wrench rivet near the jaws ,while taking the test fittings off! Seen it a couple times before!
Had that same issue about 2 months ago with a bad tapping fresh fron the manufacturer, had to run my tap through it. Definitely a day ruiner and anxiety is through the roof until the first head of steam is made lol
wonder where it was cast, india, china, mexico, etc. lol probably USA...
Great job steam team !!! Mikey fuckn pipes !!
Page 61 in "The lost art of steam heating". Hartford Loop is 2 inches below normal water level. U.S. boiler is explicit in their manual that Hartford loop is 2 inches below normal water level.
@@PipeDoctor The center of the glass is really never the relevant measuring point. Center of glass means different things on different boiler. "Normal water level" is the point of reference. Most manufacturers, in the installation manual, mandate 2" below the NWL. Some say 2"-4" below the NWL. The only time middle of glass is referenced, is when dealing with old or obsolete boilers, where no manual exists.
There is something called a Gifford Loop". Very similar to The Hartford Loop but with the placement of the loop slightly higher. The inventor of the Gifford Loop proposes that you are better off with the loop at the height of the normal water level. You can Google Gifford Loop and you'll come up with some interesting reading material.
The first tread is called the higby cut. Where one thread lines up with another.
I haven’t had good luck with surgex. 8 way works very well for long term treatment and to encapsulate oil. There’s a guy on CZcams that has a properly installed steam boiler in his own home with glass tubes on supplies and steam drop header, so he can see what happens when different products are added to clean water. Surgex was by far the worst I saw tested, and made the boiler surge. The 8 way worked well so I tried it after 2 trouble steam installs.. banging and issues with farther away radiators not heating well.. the 8 way solved the issues immediately.
I have had good success with 8-Way as well as the Hercules steam boiler treatment. I put them in each year during the summer after cleaning the boiler.
Mikey -
Does it matter where the water feed is piped into a steam boiler ?
Thanks
Hello quick question to all on the supply why do you have to 90 down then up to the nipple
I also did one Sting sweat in 4 hours
Wow. You just touched that old boiler and the section came apart.
Don't mind me asking the quote. How much does that boiler cost and how much was that to install in NYC Queen? looking to have one installed like the one you have on the video. Thanks
Buy an evolution saw for making your cuts,no burrs!
I would do a Timelapse type of video of how long it takes to do a new install. Put a time clock on the video from start to finish lol. 🕰️.
That boiler looked off center as well.. Cocked to one side, looking at that picture Mike.. Could you have done a T in front of the drop header, and then 90'd over and up, to pickup the mains?
What do you call the process that’s done to take the oil smell out of a new gas steam furnace that involves draining and filling ? Thanks
can you correctly rephrase the question?
Did you see the steps flex with all that weight. Where can I get that insulation?
@@PipeDoctor thank you.
they were pretty thin for not having a stringer down the middle, heck even a 2x4 laid flat and fastened would do.
Mike! Where do you get your pipe insulation from?
@@PipeDoctor thanks Mike!
While testing it would be a good idea to test the owners Carbon Monoxide Detector in their basement going the extra mile.
Did you go to the MM Academy or Calhoun MEBA?
Cool.
Shit can your $250.00 pipe cleaner tool lol not to good . Good video Mikey and pipe crew !! Stay safe
Got lucky with that first piece. That would have been a total shit show if you had to haul that beast back out if there. Great install as always.
Where can a homeowner source the 2” pipe insulation.
So no drip leg for nyc? Why do I see it in almost every nyc boiler room?
Relatively recent change to the code. Most of the drip legs, predate the code change
This is a first! You must have seen, read or been to Dan Holohans books or seminar, as have I. You actually insulated piping, I cant believe it…. This is a first. Why did you guys stop short on the insulation? HOWEVER, whoever needs to replace that aquastat, is going to be cursing you.
by 19:53 the bung was tapped by a machine straight with the casting, but the bung face isn't perpendicular with it, nor flat across.
probably cheaped out on a machining step or the casting mold is worn and un true.
Did the improper install cost the customer in efficiency loss? If so I wonder how much money over 30 years?
Peter forgot to put on the red boiler emergency switch sticker 🤔
@@PipeDoctor Yes
How much does that boiler cost and how much was that to install? , if you don't mind me asking. I live in PA and looking to have one installed. Thanks
Depends
@@PipeDoctor I understand.
Name of watch?
Hello family
Us boilers needs to do a better job of tapping the holes. Epic install otherwise!
Thought you had a motorized hand cart
Im really 1st Daniel
now they have a tool to polish your shaft.
“Let’s do yours next”
Question out of interest. Why do homes in USA have such big installs with big (gas) steam boilers, much zones and so on? It's not that al the houses are so big. Keep up the good work!
Because we are American's and don't live in small ass boxes 😂
Steam boilers have to be big because of violent steam otherwise the house would be off its foundation from water hammer. Removing steam pipe and replacing with baseboard would be x2 to x3 more expensive.
lots of older homes with little to no insulation and poorly air/vapor sealed. aka wind tunnels, with enough radiation elements and boiler oversizing to heat 3 to 5 well sealed and insualted homes. lol
File down the thread ????? Taper it ???
@@PipeDoctor Persistence pays off. Where was the quality control ???/
Mikey FUCKEN pipes!!!!!!!!!🔥
A good email I could message you on? I have something to ask .
A simple thread chaser would have saved an hour here. You can make one by taking a grinder to a piece of pipe cutting slits in it at an angle
been there done that, but the pipe gets chewed equally as fast as the threads you're chasing, unless it's steel in aluminum or something else softer.
cast iron generally laughs at home made thread chasers, unless they're hardened( which is hard to do) 🥳
Come on, Peter, have some pride in yourself and respect the job you're doing and your employer. Show up on time. It's not that hard. Consistency is important. My experience, when a person starts the regular not showing up on time, means they ain't long for the job. You're helping to fuel the bad thoughts of your generation and really only hurt yourself. Be thankful for the opportunities u have, and don't squander them. Molding it into something greater for yourself. Sorry Mike, I know u have probably said something, but I see great things for Peter if he can just stop stepping on his own dick. I realize he is young too, and some very rare times a person should be late, but it happens.
Tap it out
yup
6:19 I like the kid in the background watching while the trades men are dropping F Bombs.
he is going to forever remember and prob grow up in the trades.
I was the same way, if the neighbors were getting a roof I was trying to help clean and get onto the roof, or ask an electrical 1000k questions, but then I learned not to be an ASKHOLE!
So if Mercedes wont donate a van to the philanthropy channel have you thought of reaching out to any of the other van Manufacturers such as GM, Ford, Stelantis, Etc?
Maybe he wants a nice modern, tall roof van with a well engineered diesel engine that's powerful and sips fuel instead of an ancient 60 year old van that you can't stand up in and that guzzles gas and spews unburned gass smell and stinks up a whole city block when you come to a stop 😂 How did the Americans manage to only get 175 HP out of a 6+ liter V8 gas engine in a commercial van for so long?
@@dregenius 1. why the hell would you go with a diesel that would be very silly as it would be in the shop more than it would be on the road due to the Emissions systems plugging up due to all the stop and go traffic Mike encounters plus the added cost of fuel and maintenance would outweigh any sort of MPG boost he might get better to get a gasoline engine and 2. I never said Mike HAD to go with the others it was a simple question posed out of curiosity and lastly 3. Your bias is showing as im assuming you're from Europe considering your suggesting a Diesel which here in the States cost significantly more to run and maintain then their Gas Powered counterparts due to the cost of Fuel and US EPA Emissions Adding on DEF,DPF,EGR etc
@@BryanGullickson You make some very valid arguments, but honestly big asthmatic gassers are just not suited to a commercial van or hauling. The fact that diesels cost more to run is not the engine's fault, it is the fault of regulators and Americans who are very stubborn and continue to think of diesels as "foreign", which in turn means America continues to use less efficient refinery processes that prioritize gasoline (despite being significantly less efficient, as many of the distillate fractions that would have gone into #2 fuel/diesel need additional energy pumped into them to crack them down into gasoline), and fuel taxes that assume only huge trucks use the fuel and thus disproportionately tax diesel fuel. If diesels were more common in vans and anything that isn't a sports car, then there wouldn't be that issue of them being more expensive to operate.
@@BryanGullickson MPG for diesel is better then gas.... gone are the days of cheap diesel.
@@GoatzombieBubba yes diesel does get better mpg than gas im not debating that but diesel is like $5+/gallon and also it gets cold on the east coast i dont think mike is gonna want to have to fiddle with him or his employees remembering to plug in a block heater at the end of the day or remembering to unplug it at the start along with putting anti gel in the tank so the amount of cost and effort outweighs the savings produced by the better MPG
Guess there's no pool party
@@PipeDoctor watch all videos haven't heard any updates. That's why I asked
I really hate to disagree with you but the top of your equalizer tee should be the same height as the bottom of the lowest part of the guage glass
First
Buwahahaha 😅
I can't comment wtf😮
If we had what's out there now, sure anyone could do it fast. But you do 1 a day then the boss would want 2 or 3 a day. Fact brother
What’s going on with Peter being late again? 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Looks like you need a thread chaser for these boilers…different from a pipe tap
Your pool party @ 50k was supposed to be Epic, but that never happened!
Ok, lets do it.
I’d cancel any apprentice who can’t show up on time.
Show up early or go home without a job.
Ha! That's why you're working alone and wondering why nobody wants to help you. Don't worry, those guys already started their own companies and are raking in the cash you were going to withold from them when your paychecks bounced. 😂 Demanding people always be early shows that you have no concept of other people's lives and business. If someone shows up and is valuable to have *when they are there*, that's why you want them.
@@dregenius
Ha! That’s hilarious trolling.
Not good for business either.
No apprentice. All Rats.
I thought all codes were drip leg standard why does New York City only used 90s ? We all know New York City to little different. Lol.
Don’t fight it
Any time Mike
How many plumbers does it take to screw in a pipe. 😅 ok let's see what the punchline is.
Can we get less adds lol