Thank-you for the memories. My father was an oil serviceman from the early 60's thru the 90's before retiring in Ottawa Canada. Spent my teen summers working with him doing cleanings and installs. As a kid, went on many no heat calls in the cold winter months. My dad is gone now, but there is not a day that goes by where I wish he was still here and we could go out on a service call together. Love the industry enough that I went and got my oil and gas tickets. Nothing but respect for oil serviceman and the HVAC industry. 👍🇨🇦
I had a furnace that look that filthy once. It wasn't from anything on my part because the company I bought oil from for over 10 years also did the annual service cleaning on it. Can't remember but something pissed me off about them and I started getting oil and service from a different company and the 1st time they came to clean it, it looked like this. He told me that other company were "servicing" it to slow kill. He clean it right for the next 8 years I owned that place.
Had a similar issue with the HVAC company at an old job. AC never worked right. They were out multiple times a year "servicing" the equipment, said they were just barely making it get by and always recommending replacement of almost a dozen units. Boss finally got wise to them and called in someone new. Good lord the crap they blew out of the coils outside was mind boggling, and the air handlers inside were rigged to keep a pool of water in the bottom helping them rust away too. Ran like new after the new guy left.
@@kfl611 It's a combination of things. Some are just shady businesses who do things to milk more money out of unsuspecting customers. Those tend to attract and retain like minded people working for them. Other times it's an employee who just doesn't care because they're paid and treated like crap, so that gets reflected in their work. We've had some real gems show up at my current office. The landlord is apparently so bad at paying his bills that all the reputable HVAC vendors nearby won't do work for him anymore. We get the large service companies paying unskilled workers minimum wage and good lord does it show in their work...
No regular cleaning, running kerosene, wrong size nozzle, no firomatic, no tiger loop on overhead line, running the tank low on fuel. Defers maintenance then calls on a Sunday and wants the job done right away. Makes for a good video that’s for sure! Gotta add a fuel surcharge and I would rather be fishin surcharge too.
He meant to say pump diesel, diesel fuel and heating oil are exactly the same kerosene is more refined and cleaner for torpedo heaters that you run in a garage, k1 kerosene is super clean and refined and for the wick style heaters and oil lamps that get run in your house.
Thank you posting this video. My boiler got choked up over the weekend and your video gave me enough info to clean it myself. Plan to call in a company to do a service on it and check the settings. Too bad I am not in your service area, bought a coffee mug from your merch store in appreciation!!
That boiler was so "sooted up", that when Steve began to vocalize/sing/speak in tongues during what may have been an undeclared exorcism, I was certain that I was viewing a "Disney/Mary Poppins" movie, with a somewhat less subdued version of the Dick Van Dyke character cleaning a bird's cage.
Whatever they are burning should be burning a bit more completely I would think. If the fuel/air ratio is off, or the oil is lousy, I would think this could be the result.
I recently had my boiler cleaned. It was not anywhere as near as bad as this one. The guy who cleaned it was great. On the other hand the first company we called said our furnace was trash and needed to be replaced, then today they told me you never clean soot off of a boiler furnace. They wanted 14k to replace it. I don’t know what they are teaching these kids that come out for service calls but it seems to be all they want is money for the replacement and to sell you on something. They even tried scare tactics with me. Anyways our boiler is working as good as the day it was installed in 2008. There needs to be more guys/girls like you in the world that aren’t trying to sell you on the latest and greatest thing to them that will more than likely break in 5 years.
We clean cast iron boilers with water down here. Get it clear enough to get it hot, then spray it with water out of a pump up sprayer. Then steam it clean. Might take a couple times of doing that.
I don’t miss working on oil burners at all . The smell was always nauseating to me . Homeowners rarely have annual maintenance , and inspections . Then you get that emergency weekend call because of it , and might need a special part and everything is closed.
I’d love to see the service tag I’ve run into this weeks after the oil company serviced the boiler Customer wanted an opinion on wether the oil company did the job correctly because boiler seemed to be burning more oil I found a bigger nozzle than needed and the soot caked just like that never been vacuumed
But yet you Californication liberals love to tree hug and scream about climate change.. deserve what you get go get another jab to add to your vax card
Hi Steve. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos, they are really great, very informative and helpful. I'm curious of how you bill for time? Do you begin the clock when you leave your house? or when you arrive at the job? I'm also a contractor in Rhode Island and Mass, and i'm trying to get an idea of how other people charge. Thanks a ton!
You could use a hacksaw to cut a shallow grove in that stem valve (it doesn't matter if you catch the knurled nut with the blade). Then use a screwdriver to hold the stem while you loosen the nut.
I just had that same problem after doing annual cleaning. I hadn't opened the oil feed valve to the pump all the way. It was nearly all the way - not good enough. Boiler had been rumbling. All set after I turned it open a little more. It was starved for oil.
@@trone32 At 1.07 Euro a liter, which is slightly less than a quart here in the US. You would be paying about what we pay a gallon of Fuel oil for heating. $4.72 a gallon (which probably has gone up since the last time I got a tankful , 275 gallons to fill mine. Way too much for oil IMO. The oil companies here will not lower the prices because their stock holders lost money during high Covid numbers when no one was driving. This is right from the companies on a press interview. Total BS.
Since I started in HVAC when I see boilers like this, especially on emergency calls, I get pissed and charge the customer extra to clean it. This issue can be caught in 99% of annual servicing and often homeowners are either to cheap or lazy to take get it done. Not always, I understand sometimes homeowners are ignorant to the idea of annual service or another company doesn't do its job. But more often than not they homeowner waited 4-5 years to have it serviced since the last cleaning.
I had my oil boiler act up one day, had the guy come in, do a service (and replace the busted oil gauge and blow the junk out of the lines) The cost of the service was paid for in the reduction in fuel use!
aaaa .... the ol' nickle and dime home owners .... there's nothing like the small of a plugged boiler .... often you can smell it outside the house .... sometimes you can see the lil black dust on the snow outside.... I've been retired 15 - 16 years now ... can't say I miss this stuff .... I DO miss most of the work though
Great video Steve! Kerosine cost $13.80 a gallon here in W.Texas and we are the energy caption of the US FYI. Thanks for having us on your “SHIT SHOW”. Bullet Bob From Texas!
That’s exactly how my Weil McLean looked after about 6 months after I had someone do a clean out (he forgot to tighten the fuel tip) after replacing it
I had a Boiler that was Eight times the Size of that one sooted up. Two of us had to go in the sides with a Soot Saw. The fairly new boiler had a G/O Burner on it. The Building “Engineer” decided to add some #2 Oil to the #4 oil that was in the oil tank and burn it. After explaining why you couldn’t do that, he went back to burning the oil. Had to go back and repeat the cleaning. He got fired shortly after that.
At least who piped the boiler offset the return so you could open the door with ease. I had one that looked like that and was leaking water from the middle section. The home owner accused me of trying to rip him off by selling him a new boiler. I told him I wouldn't even give him a price with an attitude like that and told him to have a nice day.
I am a chimney sweep, I love your videos because I pick up a little bit of important info from your videos like @26:20 there abouts when the tool strikes the metal and his fuel tank sounds like it's doing a bad job on the gong show :) sounds like he needs a lil oil in there. . . . I mean I didn't read the gauge but my ears are usually more accurate than my eyes
I cleaned mine out and tuned it up new filter nozzle...cleaned electrodes and im still getting some dark smoke coming out chimney not heavy but enough to bother me
Coming from a night service guy, from the tankless or actual zone water ,either way so temp is the same then you punch wet it down and repair as necessary. Steam cleaned.
yeah that needed to be cleaned... you are right though even if you're not posting to youtube you pretty much need to coveryourass and record everything... whenever i do something important I record everything
How do I determine what electrodes mine uses? Repair place the ones I have are too short from cleanings and don't make contact, but part is so old they couldn't find a number
Two things about you Steve that are true, 1 your not afraid to work, 2 your entertaining when you work and the conversations you have with your costumers is classic. My bad, 3 things. Good job Steve. Let me guess, Miss Molly doesn't do weekends. Bad hair day?
Running kerosene is good . Everyone treats a gold like a blue. Putting an 80 hollow nozzle in, 70 solid is the way. Either way check the vacuum! After 8" pressure drops etc. Regardless I would hit the homeowner for being that close. I have an " insurance " form that says customers must stay 15 ft away
That’s the same boiler in my house, it’s a bitch to clean, and I do clean every year. I found that a 1 gallon 80 degree W nozzle does the best burn and no noise on start up.
You can’t tell if a filter is plugged or not by looking. Lots of times especially when they run dry it pulls all the crud & corrosion from the bottom of the tank into the back of the filter & it doesn’t take much to plug them up.
I remember when kerosene was .23 to .40 cen a gl... i would mix it in my des car... it would keep my fuel system clean.. injector's would be clean along with the heads and pistons...
People are all hung up on fuel prices for trucking everything is the reason why prices going up. That’s just part of it. Everything you touch now days is either made from crude oil or its bi-product or like farming how do they grow crops - by tractors, combines and what do they use? Yup that’s right fuel. Factories have boilers, equipment all use fuel. Almost all power plants use fuel oil or coal. Coal is either shipped or by rail. What do they use fuel. Plastic bags, plastic containers, car parts the list goes on and on all from bi-product of crude. Everything you touch in someway has a connection to crude oil.
@ 24:57 customer says, "my house was full of smoke yesterday" Smoke he says . . . . . I'm afraid it's a little more than that unfortunately, sounds like the homeowner needs Serv-Pro
OK, let me get this straight. You "must" have a firomatic valve in case there is a fire. If there is a hundred gallons of fuel oil in the tank, well, firomatic or not, the fire is going to be huge for some time. Like driving a gasoline tanker truck. If it's in an accident, if the driver is smoking, it is irrelevant at this point. Maybe I'm crazy?
Exactly thank you! So much to do I'm only 32 but dammnnn. Travel, Hobbie like bowling/ crafting/fishing ect, cleaning/fixing, kindle, learning. Like wtf. I could do so much I work with people who could have retire 5 years ago! And they want to work til they die?!??! There so much more out there.
The one who's sputtering if it has air on the line you could probably try a tiger loop that might work besides they're one of the damn tank till dang low
Hi there i enjoyed your video on service of a Grant condensing oil Boiler one thing i noticed was that you didnt check the readings on the analizer when you replaced the door panell on the unit as the air mixture can change when the door panell is replaced, I am based in Ireland have been servicing and installing oil Boilers for many years.I used to be OFTEC registered but round 4 or 5 years ago i told them i was not going to bother being registered with them because of the poor quality of work being done by OFTEC registered people here in ireland i dont want to be associated with them any more and i have to say quality of OFTEC REGISTERED LADS HERE has gotten much worse .What i cant under stand is why there are no Spot checks carried out on their work i have complained but was a waste of my time...
Are people over there actually using oil boilers? Those have been phased out over at least 40 years ago and replaced by natural gas. The next shift is happening due to global warming, as natural gas is not 'Green' and now we are replacing natural gas based heating with modern heat pumps.
Thank-you for the memories. My father was an oil serviceman from the early 60's thru the 90's before retiring in Ottawa Canada. Spent my teen summers working with him doing cleanings and installs. As a kid, went on many no heat calls in the cold winter months. My dad is gone now, but there is not a day that goes by where I wish he was still here and we could go out on a service call together. Love the industry enough that I went and got my oil and gas tickets. Nothing but respect for oil serviceman and the HVAC industry. 👍🇨🇦
Hadn't seen a good boiler cleaning in a while ... Just like old times ... Good job and good vid ... Thx ...
I had a furnace that look that filthy once. It wasn't from anything on my part because the company I bought oil from for over 10 years also did the annual service cleaning on it. Can't remember but something pissed me off about them and I started getting oil and service from a different company and the 1st time they came to clean it, it looked like this. He told me that other company were "servicing" it to slow kill. He clean it right for the next 8 years I owned that place.
Had a similar issue with the HVAC company at an old job. AC never worked right. They were out multiple times a year "servicing" the equipment, said they were just barely making it get by and always recommending replacement of almost a dozen units. Boss finally got wise to them and called in someone new. Good lord the crap they blew out of the coils outside was mind boggling, and the air handlers inside were rigged to keep a pool of water in the bottom helping them rust away too. Ran like new after the new guy left.
@@jblyon2 Why is it so hard to find good honest workers?
@@kfl611 It's a combination of things. Some are just shady businesses who do things to milk more money out of unsuspecting customers. Those tend to attract and retain like minded people working for them.
Other times it's an employee who just doesn't care because they're paid and treated like crap, so that gets reflected in their work. We've had some real gems show up at my current office. The landlord is apparently so bad at paying his bills that all the reputable HVAC vendors nearby won't do work for him anymore. We get the large service companies paying unskilled workers minimum wage and good lord does it show in their work...
No regular cleaning, running kerosene, wrong size nozzle, no firomatic, no tiger loop on overhead line, running the tank low on fuel. Defers maintenance then calls on a Sunday and wants the job done right away. Makes for a good video that’s for sure! Gotta add a fuel surcharge and I would rather be fishin surcharge too.
Kerosene is cleaner burning than no. 2 burner fuel
Didn't he say diesel fuel first? Then he said kerosene.
Tape on the venting
Nothing wrong with running kerosene if he’s got an outdoor tank
He meant to say pump diesel, diesel fuel and heating oil are exactly the same kerosene is more refined and cleaner for torpedo heaters that you run in a garage, k1 kerosene is super clean and refined and for the wick style heaters and oil lamps that get run in your house.
I cleaned one out on gas steam boiler. Partially clogged limit wires melted. Came out black from there. Good work👍👍👍
Thank you posting this video. My boiler got choked up over the weekend and your video gave me enough info to clean it myself. Plan to call in a company to do a service on it and check the settings. Too bad I am not in your service area, bought a coffee mug from your merch store in appreciation!!
That boiler was so "sooted up", that when Steve began to vocalize/sing/speak in tongues during what may have been an undeclared exorcism, I was certain that I was viewing a "Disney/Mary Poppins" movie, with a somewhat less subdued version of the Dick Van Dyke character cleaning a bird's cage.
Just got the minimum delivery today ( 175 Gal ) and paid 4.86 a Gal here in MN
Whatever they are burning should be burning a bit more completely I would think. If the fuel/air ratio is off, or the oil is lousy, I would think this could be the result.
I recently had my boiler cleaned. It was not anywhere as near as bad as this one. The guy who cleaned it was great. On the other hand the first company we called said our furnace was trash and needed to be replaced, then today they told me you never clean soot off of a boiler furnace. They wanted 14k to replace it. I don’t know what they are teaching these kids that come out for service calls but it seems to be all they want is money for the replacement and to sell you on something. They even tried scare tactics with me. Anyways our boiler is working as good as the day it was installed in 2008. There needs to be more guys/girls like you in the world that aren’t trying to sell you on the latest and greatest thing to them that will more than likely break in 5 years.
We clean cast iron boilers with water down here.
Get it clear enough to get it hot, then spray it with water out of a pump up sprayer. Then steam it clean.
Might take a couple times of doing that.
I use a old band saw blade. Cut to right size and tape the one end for a handle. Works really good on those WM boiler.
that's a good idea i was going to use some 3/4 wide stainless banding to make a cleaning tool but i have an old broken saw blade i can try
I don’t miss working on oil burners at all . The smell was always nauseating to me . Homeowners rarely have annual maintenance , and inspections . Then you get that emergency weekend call because of it , and might need a special part and everything is closed.
Press the red button on the control once while running and it’ll give you a cad reading. 1 blink 0-400 ohms, 2 =400-800, 3 = 800-1200, 4 = 1200+.
I’d love to see the service tag
I’ve run into this weeks after the oil company serviced the boiler
Customer wanted an opinion on wether the oil company did the job correctly because boiler seemed to be burning more oil
I found a bigger nozzle than needed and the soot caked just like that never been vacuumed
I am 39 and disabled living on a fixed income and live in California. Last time I got gas my truck took 19 gal and a $100 bill. This shit has to stop.
But yet you Californication liberals love to tree hug and scream about climate change.. deserve what you get go get another jab to add to your vax card
Hi Steve. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos, they are really great, very informative and helpful. I'm curious of how you bill for time? Do you begin the clock when you leave your house? or when you arrive at the job? I'm also a contractor in Rhode Island and Mass, and i'm trying to get an idea of how other people charge. Thanks a ton!
You could use a hacksaw to cut a shallow grove in that stem valve (it doesn't matter if you catch the knurled nut with the blade). Then use a screwdriver to hold the stem while you loosen the nut.
I just had that same problem after doing annual cleaning. I hadn't opened the oil feed valve to the pump all the way. It was nearly all the way - not good enough. Boiler had been rumbling. All set after I turned it open a little more. It was starved for oil.
Here in the UK fuel has gone up a ton aswell... my home gas and electricity went up from £50 a month to £250 a month
Holy shit! That's a hell of an increase! Damn governments always think all the citizens have endless money to pour into everything!
You should blame Biden like steve does.
@@jayclark5912 I bet you blame Putin and Trump for all your issues don’t you.
I use heating oil in the UK, last summer it was 42p a litre now it’s £1.07 a litre. I don’t know how some will afford to heat their homes and eat.
@@trone32 At 1.07 Euro a liter, which is slightly less than a quart here in the US. You would be paying about what we pay a gallon of Fuel oil for heating. $4.72 a gallon (which probably has gone up since the last time I got a tankful , 275 gallons to fill mine. Way too much for oil IMO. The oil companies here will not lower the prices because their stock holders lost money during high Covid numbers when no one was driving. This is right from the companies on a press interview. Total BS.
Since I started in HVAC when I see boilers like this, especially on emergency calls, I get pissed and charge the customer extra to clean it. This issue can be caught in 99% of annual servicing and often homeowners are either to cheap or lazy to take get it done. Not always, I understand sometimes homeowners are ignorant to the idea of annual service or another company doesn't do its job. But more often than not they homeowner waited 4-5 years to have it serviced since the last cleaning.
Hi Steve and Ms molly! really enjoy the videos especially the sooty boiler clean up ones more please ! 😀
I had my oil boiler act up one day, had the guy come in, do a service (and replace the busted oil gauge and blow the junk out of the lines)
The cost of the service was paid for in the reduction in fuel use!
aaaa .... the ol' nickle and dime home owners .... there's nothing like the small of a plugged boiler .... often you can smell it outside the house .... sometimes you can see the lil black dust on the snow outside.... I've been retired 15 - 16 years now ... can't say I miss this stuff .... I DO miss most of the work though
Great video Steve! Kerosine cost $13.80 a gallon here in W.Texas and we are the energy caption of the US FYI. Thanks for having us on your “SHIT SHOW”. Bullet Bob From Texas!
Generally if it is full of soot it is set to run to rich (not enough air). If the air is set right it will never soot.
That vacuum deserves a raise
you aint whistlin Dixie!
It’s a troopa! 😂🤣😅
That’s exactly how my Weil McLean looked after about 6 months after I had someone do a clean out (he forgot to tighten the fuel tip) after replacing it
I had a Boiler that was Eight times the Size of that one sooted up. Two of us had to go in the sides with a Soot Saw. The fairly new boiler had a G/O Burner on it. The Building “Engineer” decided to add some #2 Oil to the #4 oil that was in the oil tank and burn it. After explaining why you couldn’t do that, he went back to burning the oil. Had to go back and repeat the cleaning. He got fired shortly after that.
Why can't you add #2 oil to the #4 oil and burn it?
Don't ya just love when someone posts an interesting story, then people ask questions and the original poster ignores everyone?
@@OGSnoberry Don't ya just love when someone posts an interesting story, then people ask questions and the original poster ignores everyone?
At least who piped the boiler offset the return so you could open the door with ease. I had one that looked like that and was leaking water from the middle section. The home owner accused me of trying to rip him off by selling him a new boiler. I told him I wouldn't even give him a price with an attitude like that and told him to have a nice day.
You did the right thing. I have no patience for people like that
I just had a boiler just like this at work today completely plugged. Took me 3 hours to clean
I am a chimney sweep, I love your videos because I pick up a little bit of important info from your videos like @26:20 there abouts when the tool strikes the metal and his fuel tank sounds like it's doing a bad job on the gong show :) sounds like he needs a lil oil in there. . . . I mean I didn't read the gauge but my ears are usually more accurate than my eyes
I cleaned mine out and tuned it up new filter nozzle...cleaned electrodes and im still getting some dark smoke coming out chimney not heavy but enough to bother me
That's why I love Natural gas. Way cleaner and easier to maintain
@@davidmann4533 Thank heating oil? lol
But it goes 💥
Some of those well McLean golds came with a Beckett with an F4 end cone on it. It will always run rough unless you fire it up to about one 110 80 B.
Coming from a night service guy, from the tankless or actual zone water ,either way so temp is the same then you punch wet it down and repair as necessary. Steam cleaned.
Been a long time since the boiler saw came out... nice stuff.. glad i'm off oil...
Electricity also has gone through the roof here in Maine.
They raised it to .24 a kwh in NH. Absolutely ridiculous rates.
We're $0.16 per KWH. I'll see if it goes up next month. Natural gas is over $8 per CCF. It's gone up $2 per CCF.
Tell me this, u are adjusting combustion old school just by experience and visually looking the flame?
What a pain. Takes heaping helpings of perseverance. Good work Steve!
yeah that needed to be cleaned... you are right though even if you're not posting to youtube you pretty much need to coveryourass and record everything... whenever i do something important I record everything
I’m surprised these fuel tanks don’t have sloped bottom so sludge will settle at low point and can be drained off.
That flame looked great! If the heater technicians around here could do what Steve does, I would have never converted to gas!
i like the heavy 2 1/2" pipes it's from a time when it was quality. good job 💪
Love the convo - great people
Good thing you had your soot suit! :)
Ok absolutely LOVE when you sing she's a crusty one Mr Grinch !!!! You had diet coke coming out of my nose !!!!!!
Those that like to scam people will prob say u need a whole new boiler its burned to a crisp would prob be their reason
Moved to Fl and those dirty boilers are way in my past now. More a/c issues though. No more oil to buy thank god.
Like cutting grass? I'll give you my address 🤣🤣, another kick ass fix Steve! Keep the video's coming ☝ 💪 👌
Amazing quality of work… wish you were my boiler tech.
How do I determine what electrodes mine uses? Repair place the ones I have are too short from cleanings and don't make contact, but part is so old they couldn't find a number
Hilarious, “it was working just fine before you touched it “
Two things about you Steve that are true, 1 your not afraid to work, 2 your entertaining when you work and the conversations you have with your costumers is classic. My bad, 3 things. Good job Steve. Let me guess, Miss Molly doesn't do weekends. Bad hair day?
A unit looking this bad makes you want to take a power washer to it,!🤣
I paid $6.19/gal out here in Northern CA over the weekend. $hitshow.
Thanks for the videos what caused all that soot?
not enough air /durty / bad nozzle
Running kerosene is good . Everyone treats a gold like a blue. Putting an 80 hollow nozzle in, 70 solid is the way. Either way check the vacuum! After 8" pressure drops etc. Regardless I would hit the homeowner for being that close. I have an " insurance " form that says customers must stay 15 ft away
I also put a tiger loop system, because my feed and return run overhead to my tank in the garage
Steve, good boiler video, enjoy watching them!
Steven's in his element here mama! Thanks Steven. Love the dirty clean up vids.
born and still living in RI. I can confirm we talk like this.
Don't pay to get it serviced, end up paying in the long run.
Pay me now, or pay me later
Sounds like Curly cleaning the soot.😂😂😂
With all that carbon you should have found at least one diamond.
$180 an hour on a Sunday is a bargain
Mine just charges me something like 60-80 euro an hour. 180 an hour is pretty much batshit crazy to me.
I would pull the smoke pipe to clean and check for soot crows or black birds. Tiger loop might be easier to deal with
Is getting an oil burner serviced and filter change every other year ok or should it be annually?
That’s the same boiler in my house, it’s a bitch to clean, and I do clean every year. I found that a 1 gallon 80 degree W nozzle does the best burn and no noise on start up.
They make a brush specifically for this boiler/ boiler’s and steam were my specialty
You can’t tell if a filter is plugged or not by looking. Lots of times especially when they run dry it pulls all the crud & corrosion from the bottom of the tank into the back of the filter & it doesn’t take much to plug them up.
What's that sawblade thing you used to clean out the inside called?
Great job loved the dialogue with the tenant
I remember when kerosene was .23 to .40 cen a gl... i would mix it in my des car... it would keep my fuel system clean.. injector's would be clean along with the heads and pistons...
burner coupling's act funny too,when they start to strip out.overhead line and alway's runout of oil,self induced problems.
They Told Me that Kersene is High Tech Fuel. People Used to mix it here to keep the fuel from Jelling up.
Only boiler I don't mind sooting up is the American Standard double doors
People are all hung up on fuel prices for trucking everything is the reason why prices going up. That’s just part of it. Everything you touch now days is either made from crude oil or its bi-product or like farming how do they grow crops - by tractors, combines and what do they use? Yup that’s right fuel. Factories have boilers, equipment all use fuel. Almost all power plants use fuel oil or coal. Coal is either shipped or by rail. What do they use fuel. Plastic bags, plastic containers, car parts the list goes on and on all from bi-product of crude. Everything you touch in someway has a connection to crude oil.
@ 24:57 customer says, "my house was full of smoke yesterday"
Smoke he says . . . . .
I'm afraid it's a little more than that unfortunately, sounds like the homeowner needs Serv-Pro
Change that pump strainer! It’ll plug from that muck and cavitate the oil which looks like air.
I knew Somebody that tried to Pour Oil in the tank with a 5 gallon can and thought it would run like that.
Did I hear a comment that a smaller nozzle had been fitted? One simple problem is someone fitting a higher capacity tip than the fan can handle.
Where's your combustion analyzer? Can't adjust the air band accurately without a combustion analyzer.
I lost it at "master of the shit show" lmaoooo
Love you’re videos. “You ever hear that saying cover you’re ass”
Always make me laugh
OK, let me get this straight. You "must" have a firomatic valve in case there is a fire. If there is a hundred gallons of fuel oil in the tank, well, firomatic or not, the fire is going to be huge for some time. Like driving a gasoline tanker truck. If it's in an accident, if the driver is smoking, it is irrelevant at this point. Maybe I'm crazy?
What a chit-show! All sooted up, low on oil, leaky relief valve, etc. That McLain is a PITA to clean!
Canada where I live $8.18gal for diesel.
Oil touches EVERYTHING!!!!
Farmers use diesel in their tractors. Anything plastic is made from petroleum.
19:57 Geez... That 1 gallon is blowing heat past that single-pass boiler like a Mo-Fo!! Def go smaller.
Double time baby!!!! lets do it...
who sits around doing nothing when they retire? I'm retired, I do whatever I want.
Exactly thank you! So much to do I'm only 32 but dammnnn. Travel, Hobbie like bowling/ crafting/fishing ect, cleaning/fixing, kindle, learning. Like wtf. I could do so much I work with people who could have retire 5 years ago! And they want to work til they die?!??! There so much more out there.
The one who's sputtering if it has air on the line you could probably try a tiger loop that might work besides they're one of the damn tank till dang low
Hi there i enjoyed your video on service of a Grant condensing oil Boiler one thing i noticed
was that you didnt check the readings on the analizer when you replaced the door panell
on the unit as the air mixture can change when the door panell is replaced, I am based
in Ireland have been servicing and installing oil Boilers for many years.I used to be
OFTEC registered but round 4 or 5 years ago i told them i was not going to bother being
registered with them because of the poor quality of work being done by OFTEC registered
people here in ireland i dont want to be associated with them any more and i have to say
quality of OFTEC REGISTERED LADS HERE has gotten much worse .What i cant under stand
is why there are no Spot checks carried out on their work i have complained but was a
waste of my time...
I learned a lot from you. Thank you
@12:57 it looks like that Sid Harvey filter is clogged pretty good and your vac is on the verge of creating it's own puff back
Damn that thing was full of black Dinosaur dust!
Are people over there actually using oil boilers? Those have been phased out over at least 40 years ago and replaced by natural gas. The next shift is happening due to global warming, as natural gas is not 'Green' and now we are replacing natural gas based heating with modern heat pumps.
kerosen is not fuel oil. fuel oil is heavier dasicly desial. either 1 or 2. tho kero can be used for home heating. usally isent due to cost.
Whoever ran the overhead oil line must be a little bit nutz.