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...
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. 👍🇨🇦
Sounds like your ole man was one heck of a dad. One lil bit of advice is, " try your best to rember all the good times and things and not so much focus on the end. Almost sounds like it could be a movie I would love to watch. Thanks for sharing that nice story man.
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!!
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
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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 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.
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.
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!
I've been watching videos like this trying to work up the courage to take the burner off my furnace and clean it, wjth the knowledge that since I don't know what I'm doing it would be really easy to mess something up, and it's winter time
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
Issue: Did mine last night, it was packed full, even found a possum skull and bones on top of the radiators. But still having the same problem. Runs fine 10-15 minutes, then will start rapid cycling (or firing), On Off On Off On Off On Off, puffing smoke. Let it sit for a while, runs fine again. As long as it doesn't stay on for more then five minutes seems to work fine. I've replaced the Oil filter, cleaned the flue, pump screen cleaned, cleaned light sensor, and replace thermostat, now what? The lining is falling apart, but I doubt that is the issue. Have not taken the electrodes out, but I did that last season when I replaced the nozzle.
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.
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
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
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 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.
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.
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
The Commonwealth is actively looking to drive the natural gas utilities out. I work for one. Its becoming pretty clear. They now demand that our sales force must try to convince a potential customer that they should go with renewables first ( geo or solar, etc ) before they can even speak to them about going gas.
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?
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
@ 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
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...
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.
Here on the gulf coast we don't see the brutal cold that would warrant a oil boiler, I have never seen one. But watching Steven saw away at the soot while singing a little diddy, much like curly from the 3 stooges would do, while preforming a mundane task made me laugh.
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.
There are three things you need to know about gasoline prices. First, the price of crude oil - the stuff that comes out of the ground - is set in a global market, not country by country. Second, fluctuations in the price of gasoline, which is refined from crude, overwhelmingly reflect fluctuations in that global price. Third, U.S. policy has little effect on world oil prices, and virtually none at all in the short run - say, the 14 months that Biden has been in office.
@@brianmoore5498 How much does ActBlue pay you for these trolls, my friend? The US contribution to the global market OF COURSE affects the overall price. Since oil is traded in FUTURES, those react quickly to changes in POLICY. When Biden killed Keystone on Day 1, that's 800,000 barrels of oil per day that are now locked in in Canada, and therefore won't be pulled from the ground and sent to our Gulf Coast refineries. (Stupid Psaki says, "Well, it's just transportation, not production." Yeah, Jen, but nobody's going to extract the stuff if they can't SELL IT, and oil trains can't move anywhere near as much crude as the pipeline, anywhere near as efficiently. Do you think that Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister, made a personal call to BEG Biden not to kill Keystone because "it doesn't make any difference?" The Administration's goal was, as Obama's was with coal, to strangle the industry by making it too expensive to produce and use, and they succeeded. Now they're trying to deny -- like you are -- that their efforts are having any effect.) The previous administration's approach -- "Drill Baby Drill" -- brought us low oil prices, and made us oil and gas self-sufficient. Now, instead, Biden is begging our ENEMIES to produce more in order to bring prices down. So we pay OUR money to a cast of horribles to finance their world-domination ambitions and repression of their people instead of paying Canada and American workers to produce the same product. Crazy. Also, for a time, you couldn't EXPORT condensate, so products here made from that were at record-lows when it was being produced en-masse (e.g. a separation from the world market). Kill fracking, you kill condensate, you remove that product from the stream. THE WHOLE GOAL of the Administration was to raise oil prices in the US, to make the transition to Unicorn Farts seem like a reasonable alternative. Now that they have succeeded, and people are pissed, they're trying to gaslight us into thinking that nothing can be done about it. They screwed this up in a year. They could fix it in less. NOTICE HOW PRICES DROPPED the moment that Biden said that he was open to more gas exploration here? The very moment. Because oil and gas are traded in FUTURES. That's the truth.
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
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...
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. 👍🇨🇦
Sounds like your ole man was one heck of a dad. One lil bit of advice is, " try your best to rember all the good times and things and not so much focus on the end. Almost sounds like it could be a movie I would love to watch. Thanks for sharing that nice story man.
I grew up in the fifties and sixties and can almost see you and your Dad out there in the snow getting people warm again! My Grandfather was my hero.
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.
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!!
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 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
They have soot swords lol they bend super easy though, those damn brushes always bend on me too during cleaning especially on the weil mcla8n golds
Hi Steve and Ms molly! really enjoy the videos especially the sooty boiler clean up ones more please ! 😀
Amazing quality of work… wish you were my boiler tech.
I cleaned one out on gas steam boiler. Partially clogged limit wires melted. Came out black from there. Good work👍👍👍
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.
Just got the minimum delivery today ( 175 Gal ) and paid 4.86 a Gal here in MN
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Good thing you had your soot suit! :)
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!
Love the convo - great people
Love you’re videos. “You ever hear that saying cover you’re ass”
Always make me laugh
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 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.
I just had a boiler just like this at work today completely plugged. Took me 3 hours to clean
That flame looked great! If the heater technicians around here could do what Steve does, I would have never converted to gas!
Steve, good boiler video, enjoy watching them!
Been a long time since the boiler saw came out... nice stuff.. glad i'm off oil...
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?
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!
That's why I love Natural gas. Way cleaner and easier to maintain
@@davidmann4533 Thank heating oil? lol
But it goes 💥
I've been watching videos like this trying to work up the courage to take the burner off my furnace and clean it, wjth the knowledge that since I don't know what I'm doing it would be really easy to mess something up, and it's winter time
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.
Ok absolutely LOVE when you sing she's a crusty one Mr Grinch !!!! You had diet coke coming out of my nose !!!!!!
What a pain. Takes heaping helpings of perseverance. Good work Steve!
That vacuum deserves a raise
you aint whistlin Dixie!
It’s a troopa! 😂🤣😅
i like the heavy 2 1/2" pipes it's from a time when it was quality. good job 💪
Like cutting grass? I'll give you my address 🤣🤣, another kick ass fix Steve! Keep the video's coming ☝ 💪 👌
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
Issue: Did mine last night, it was packed full, even found a possum skull and bones on top of the radiators. But still having the same problem. Runs fine 10-15 minutes, then will start rapid cycling (or firing), On Off On Off On Off On Off, puffing smoke. Let it sit for a while, runs fine again. As long as it doesn't stay on for more then five minutes seems to work fine.
I've replaced the Oil filter, cleaned the flue, pump screen cleaned, cleaned light sensor, and replace thermostat, now what? The lining is falling apart, but I doubt that is the issue. Have not taken the electrodes out, but I did that last season when I replaced the nozzle.
Excellent work
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
Perfect 👌 service boiler
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+.
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.
Steven's in his element here mama! Thanks Steven. Love the dirty clean up vids.
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.
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
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
@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
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 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.
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.
Tell me this, u are adjusting combustion old school just by experience and visually looking the flame?
19:57 Geez... That 1 gallon is blowing heat past that single-pass boiler like a Mo-Fo!! Def go smaller.
Great job loved the dialogue with the tenant
Good work as usual, Steave.
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
The Commonwealth is actively looking to drive the natural gas utilities out. I work for one. Its becoming pretty clear. They now demand that our sales force must try to convince a potential customer that they should go with renewables first ( geo or solar, etc ) before they can even speak to them about going gas.
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?
Double time baby!!!! lets do it...
You have a beautiful singing voice >.>
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.
I learned a lot from you. Thank you
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
A unit looking this bad makes you want to take a power washer to it,!🤣
born and still living in RI. I can confirm we talk like this.
Hilarious, “it was working just fine before you touched it “
What a chit-show! All sooted up, low on oil, leaky relief valve, etc. That McLain is a PITA to clean!
Where did you buy this oil pan from? Could you please send me one, because we don't have here in Greece!!!
Steven lavimonier I like your utube videos
I also put a tiger loop system, because my feed and return run overhead to my tank in the garage
What's that sawblade thing you used to clean out the inside called?
The man , knows his shit
I paid $6.19/gal out here in Northern CA over the weekend. $hitshow.
Sounds like Curly cleaning the soot.😂😂😂
@ 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
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...
Just found your channel and enjoy the content.. Ms.Molly is cute lol
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.
I knew Somebody that tried to Pour Oil in the tank with a 5 gallon can and thought it would run like that.
Oil touches EVERYTHING!!!!
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
Here on the gulf coast we don't see the brutal cold that would warrant a oil boiler, I have never seen one. But watching Steven saw away at the soot while singing a little diddy, much like curly from the 3 stooges would do, while preforming a mundane task made me laugh.
When I heard you singing make me laugh 😂😂
Wife calls husband. Husband the plumber is singing to our pipes. Husband says no big deal , that's just Steve letting off some steam. 😜
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
With all that carbon you should have found at least one diamond.
I’m surprised these fuel tanks don’t have sloped bottom so sludge will settle at low point and can be drained off.
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.
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?
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.
What is a tiger loop. And what is a hartford loop.
look it up on google
The tenant made my day when talking about fuel prices, "Thank you Mr. Biden, you dumb f---." Nothing like just telling us what he thinks.
There are three things you need to know about gasoline prices. First, the price of crude oil - the stuff that comes out of the ground - is set in a global market, not country by country. Second, fluctuations in the price of gasoline, which is refined from crude, overwhelmingly reflect fluctuations in that global price. Third, U.S. policy has little effect on world oil prices, and virtually none at all in the short run - say, the 14 months that Biden has been in office.
Americans just find it odd that ever since Biden took office, gas has doubled in price. And inflation is at record levels.
@@brianmoore5498 How much does ActBlue pay you for these trolls, my friend? The US contribution to the global market OF COURSE affects the overall price. Since oil is traded in FUTURES, those react quickly to changes in POLICY. When Biden killed Keystone on Day 1, that's 800,000 barrels of oil per day that are now locked in in Canada, and therefore won't be pulled from the ground and sent to our Gulf Coast refineries. (Stupid Psaki says, "Well, it's just transportation, not production." Yeah, Jen, but nobody's going to extract the stuff if they can't SELL IT, and oil trains can't move anywhere near as much crude as the pipeline, anywhere near as efficiently. Do you think that Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister, made a personal call to BEG Biden not to kill Keystone because "it doesn't make any difference?" The Administration's goal was, as Obama's was with coal, to strangle the industry by making it too expensive to produce and use, and they succeeded. Now they're trying to deny -- like you are -- that their efforts are having any effect.) The previous administration's approach -- "Drill Baby Drill" -- brought us low oil prices, and made us oil and gas self-sufficient. Now, instead, Biden is begging our ENEMIES to produce more in order to bring prices down. So we pay OUR money to a cast of horribles to finance their world-domination ambitions and repression of their people instead of paying Canada and American workers to produce the same product. Crazy. Also, for a time, you couldn't EXPORT condensate, so products here made from that were at record-lows when it was being produced en-masse (e.g. a separation from the world market). Kill fracking, you kill condensate, you remove that product from the stream. THE WHOLE GOAL of the Administration was to raise oil prices in the US, to make the transition to Unicorn Farts seem like a reasonable alternative. Now that they have succeeded, and people are pissed, they're trying to gaslight us into thinking that nothing can be done about it. They screwed this up in a year. They could fix it in less. NOTICE HOW PRICES DROPPED the moment that Biden said that he was open to more gas exploration here? The very moment. Because oil and gas are traded in FUTURES. That's the truth.
Boy did that need a flossing - thanks for the vid - ❤️ to Miss Molly
Must be a big ass house! 2 oil fired mains!
Canada where I live $8.18gal for diesel.
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