Dumbest radiator installation i've seen in awhile!

This radiator installation takes the cake for the dumbest installation i've seen recently. The radiator mounted in the ceiling of the kitchen of this school is a Shaw Perkins radiator. The Shaw Perkins is really a convector instead of a radiator. It does a bang up job of creating convection air currents but doesn't do squat for radiation. The people at the school actually had to add ceiling fans to try and get the heat to come back down from the ceiling. A ceiling radiator is dumb to start with, but a ceiling mounted convection style radiator is really dumb. The place was designed this way too! That means a licensed engineer came up with that!

Another gas explosion in Ohio

Another gas explosion in a home. Kids were injured in this one. Gas just insn't something to mess with. Details are still sketchy as to the cause.

Winter plumbing freeze ups.

Its that time of year again, when things get down right chilly, and if your on vacation to Florida, or some other place thats more agreeable than the Cleveland area, you had best take some precautions with your home to prevent frozen and ruptured pipes due to a boiler problem when you are gone. The easiest thing to do is have a neighbor check on your house every day..but will they? Next best option is to install a freeze alert device, which is like an answer machine for your phone and it reads the temperature and if the temp drops below a set point, it actually starts to dial out phone numbers with a pre recorded message warning of the situation. Calls could be placed to your cell phone, and your heating contractor. Probably the best option is to have your alarm company install a sensor that calls their monitoring station should there be an issue and then they would have a list of people to call...but all that said, some people will still leave their home for days on end, and the boilers pilot will go out, and the people will come home to ruptured pipes and frozen water all over their house. Have a great winter!

Much thanks to the NorthEast Ohio PHCC

Thanks goes out to the NorthEast Ohio PHCC for inviting me to give a steam boiler piping presentation to the group tonight. I enjoyed myself and had a great time doing the class. If even just one person got just one thing out of it then it was time well spent. Thanks again!

Roots Love Sewers!

Oh My God--- It's SOYLANT GREEN !

I'd say by now any underground pipe 80 years old leaks.

Yup, she's a leaker. I guess if you can bury a steam pipe and have it last 80 years it wasn't really that bad was it?