Heat a Residential Facility
Contractor Name
Bernie Salamie, Capital Climate Services, Hyattsville, Maryland
Job Location
St. Luke Institute, a private residential facility for clergy
Job Description
Removal of two 50 year-old triple pass fire tube gas/oil boilers and replace with eight Ultra Gas Boilers
Facility Square Footage & Load Requirement
Building covers over an acre, 3 million BTU
Special Circumstances
The facility was on an interruptible gas/oil plan with their local utility. To keep the plan savings, the new system was designed to satisfy 85% of the load with the Ultra boilers and 15% with an existing oil boiler.
Why Weil-McLain® Equipment
The Ultra Gas solves all the problems I have had with other low mass boilers. It is small, lightweight and it eliminates the noise and shaking from "steam engining."
Lessons Learned
My sales representative advised me to do primary-secondary piping, but I started in a different direction. After review, primary-secondary piping was the way to go, and it works great.
