Flush toilets to fully drain the pipes. Close the faucets once the water stops flowing. Shut off the Boiler and Taps: Before working on the pipe, shut off your home’s water boiler and drain the hot taps. 3. Open The Cabinet Doors When a pipe bursts under the bathroom sink, warmth ...
Then you use that long staybolt tap that John showed in the video to cut new threads and run in a new bolt. If the firemen have treated the boiler well during the operating season, there will be very few if any broken bolts found at the end of the year. I don't think we had ...
A small leak from top tubesheet-to-tube welds prompted further inspection of the 11/4Cr- 1/2Mo Ammonia Converter Boiler Feed Water (BFW) Exchanger during a planned shutdown. Further cracks were identified in the top channel to tubesheet butt weld that operated at 700掳 F. After grinding ...
difficult to nerve myself to see friends, even when I don’t have to travel, which I have always hated. My regular Tuesday “have coffee with a local writer” thing is often on the chopping block, because I freak out before he gets here. Keep in mind that the entire thing is, he...
Warning about cleanup effectiveness: No cleaning measures will be effective, and the cost of performing them may be wasted, without also addressing causes of building contamination such as water entry, sewage backups, building leaks, and building ventilation defects. Those defects which a professional...
If a puff back causes damage to the heating system as well, repairs will be even more costly. A forceful puff back can cause the heating flue vent connector to burst or can damage the boiler itself. If a flue vent connector becomes dislodged, you are also at risk of fire as combustion...