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This is just one of the many jobs that CMR Heating and A/C has performed over
the last year.
The task was to install all of the necessary steam piping and
water piping to create a
candle factory where one had not existed before. The size of the building was 60
feet by 40 feet.
The below picture is what we started with basically a bare bones
building with a exposed ceiling.
One of the first orders of business was to purchase some black
iron pipe.
For this we started out with around 1,400 feet of assorted size pipe
anywhere
from 2" diameter to 1/2" diameter. And there was not much of the
3/4" or 1/2"
pipe for this job.
Notice the larger 6" cross over pipe that is to be used on the boiler, make
no mistake
about it, this is one heavy piece of pipe.
For all of this black iron pipe we used a Ridgid 535 pipe
threader. We estimate that there are
around 1,200 threads for the completed job. That calculates out to about 20
hours of threading alone
One of the first steps was to install the overhead steam and
water pipes.
These pictures are showing the right hand side where there will be 5 steam
kettles and 8 wax molds.
when we are done
This picture shows the right hand side after the main steam and
water lines were installed.
note the steam kettles are set in place but not yet hooked up.
This is another picture showing the main overhead steam lines
for the right hand side.
The help in the picture is working on the copper water lines for the molds.
There is over 1,100 feet of water lines with several hundred solder joints to
solder
we used over 7 lbs of solder for this part of the job. Plumbers say that an
average house will
use around 2 lbs of solder so it's safe to say that we soldered about 3 houses
worth of copper.
This is the finished product of the right hand side showing the
installed products.
This is the finished product of the right hand side showing the
installed products.
This picture shows the left hand side while it was under
construction.
Note the yellow CSST gas line. This is a high pressure (2psi) line @ 1-1/2"
diameter. This was due to the large gas load required by the boiler and the rest
of the building.
Since we didn't have any easy way to get the condensate water
back to the boiler we
installed 3 of these condensate return pumps.
Talk about a lot of additional piping, this job used black iron fittings like
there was no tomorrow.
Here we are working on the gas manifold needed to supply the
boiler and the rest of
the building. We created a 2" low pressure manifold with a 1-1/2"
supply for the boiler,
1-1/2" supply for the apartment side of the building and a 1" supply
for the factory heater.
along with a couple of test ports. Make no mistake this was a large system to
install.
Here we are showing the customer supplied boiler as it was
delivered.
This boiler needed some repair to make it work but not much. Most of the damage
was cosmetic in nature.
This is a 1,170,000 BTU steam boiler that weighs around 3,000 lbs unassembled.
We used a forklift to set this in place and believe me it's not going to move easily.
This picture is showing the boiler as it was set into place.
Notice the crossover pipe
that was setting on the floor in the earlier pictures. It doesn't appear to be
as big in this picture.
The picture on the right is the flue stack and rain cap. this is a 16"
diameter flue stack. It too doesn't
look that large when it is affixed on top of the boiler.
The below pictures show a steam tank that can hold in excess of
1 ton of melted wax.
The picture on the right is of the boss and one of his helpers. For this project
we spent in excess of 500
hours over a period of 3 months to complete this job.
I am happy to say that we completed this task on time and to the customers satisfaction.
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