THE CALL: One of my favorite customers called me about a job we looked at years ago. I like this customer because he loves to talk about history and there is so much about steam heating that involves ...

If you live and work anywhere near the Northeast corridor, you probably see more residential steam heating systems than the entire rest of the nation combined. Nearly one-third of all Americans live ...

Old boiler rooms are often home to steam-heating boilers. Older cities are loaded with these and lots of people — knuckleheads included — have had decades to mess with what the “dead men” once ...

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 ...

This month, I will attempt to shed some clarity on the things you will find on the side opposite the steam supply valve on a two-pipe radiator. We covered a lot of ground last month, but only ...

We got pointed by [packrat] to a 2015 presentation by [Dan Holohan] on the history and art of steam heating systems. At the advent of central heating systems for entire buildings, steam was used ...