After all these years of bouncing around the basements of homes around New England, I am never surprised by the ingenuity some heating contractors employ to solve a problem. Recently, I had the opportunity to be told by a general contractor that I was full of it! He said that I obviously didn't understand the workings of a steam heating system and the information I was telling him was incorrect! He and his "plumbing buddy" had just finished "beating down" an old one-pipe steam system during the renovation of an old home and now parts of the house were not heating and the pipes were banging every time the boiler fired up! Through a wholesale friend, I was asked to come out and take a look!
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