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 ...

Joe Coppola, education chairman of the Hydronics Institute, has a goal: to teach heating-cooling contractors how to correctly design and troubleshoot basic hydronic systems. While the course has a ...

Years ago, steam heating was a business of installing complete systems and not just a business of replacing boilers and fixing problems as it is today. Manufacturers made boilers that could produce ...

Steam can move fast, sometimes faster than you want. There isn’t a traffic cop inside the pipes to monitor its speed. The steam just moves as fast as it can, based on its volume and the size of the ...