Top all-time · #10687
Heating Help #1 Online Resource for Heating Answers
Company blog · heatinghelp.com/blogother
Heating Help #1 Online Resource for Heating Answers is the company blog at heatinghelp.com. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “NYC One-Pipe Steam (2014)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite heatinghelp.com as a source on steam heating, including one-pipe steam in NYC buildings and how two-pipe and air-vent steam systems differ. Comments link its posts without judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Heating Help is the #1 Online Resource for Heating Answers. Find the answers to all your questions about heating systems, both old and new!
Most-linked posts?
- NYC One-Pipe Steam (2014)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-09-21
What Hacker News says?
It's a pressure valve. Here's the patent: https://heatinghelp.com/assets/documents/141.pdf I don't think I've a clear enough understanding of how it works to try to explain it.
Comment linking /assets/documents/141.pdf
on “Mercury Spill”Submitted The Duke Mansion Mystery as a story · 97 points
HN discussionInteresting. I think the system you are describing is a variation of a "two pipe steam" system that is not very common these days. More common systems have have an air vent, and do run on a continuous cycle. Holohan describes the differences here: https://heatinghelp.com/systems-help-center/a-steam-heating-... He also points out that the failure point of the system you have is that the "steam traps" tend to fail fre…
Comment linking /systems-help-center/a-steam-heating-primer/
on “The Lost Art of Steam Heating (2017) [video]”Submitted The Model K Mystery (2020) as a story · 62 points
HN discussionService story about NYC steam heating (2014), https://heatinghelp.com/blog/nyc-one-pipe-steam/ > The call came in on a day when a no-mercy wind whipped out of the northwest, as it often does during a New York City winter. No heat. > Since the ancient but newly renovated apartment building was still under warranty, the folks down at New York City's Department of Housing Preservation and Development passed the call on…
Comment linking /blog/nyc-one-pipe-steam/
on “How the New York City steam system works”Submitted NYC One-Pipe Steam (2014) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHeh, this looks a lot like my steam radiator plots! I used 1-wire DS18B20 probes on radiators, the risers, and on the boiler itself. Your radiator valves may be adjustable, which makes it possible to set how fast they let the air out. That way you can heat up rads in cold rooms faster than in hot rooms and do a rough temperature balancing. Btw, if you want to learn more about steam systems and how they work, I can r…
Comment linking /products/Steam-Heating-Books/25/61/We-Got-Steam-Heat-A-Homeowners-Guide-to-Peaceful-Coexistence
on “Apartment Radiator Temperature”Submitted Saving History as a story · 1 points
HN discussionProbably because people will steal the heat pumps. There are apartment buildings going up in NYC with one-pipe steam heat, steel pipes, and cast-iron radiators, because there is nothing outside the boiler room worth stealing.[1] [1] https://heatinghelp.com/blog/nyc-one-pipe-steam/
Comment linking /blog/nyc-one-pipe-steam/
on “Massive geothermal apartment complex is going up in Brooklyn, first of its kind”> Goods need to be transported anyways and in many situations there might not be alternatives for roads (e.g. transport food to grocery stores). There were roads before cars and trucks: > Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. By 1930, most streets were primarily a motor thoroughfares where children did not belong and where pede…
Comment linking /dead-men-tales/bicycles-and-heating-history/
on “Driving is more expensive than you think (2020)”
