We have a new boiler!

[conuly]

It is blue. I didn't even know they came in colors!

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Comments

[conuly]

Most New Yorkers have steam heat. Our buildings are old. (My house in particular is celebrating its centennial soon!)

[kengr]

I recall when a lot of buildings in downtown Portland had to install new heating systems.

PGE was shutting down a power plant that was at the edge of the downtown area. It had been there since the early 20th century.

The buildings in question had been getting steam heat from steam piped from the power plant. Some of them were buildings built as late as the 60s.

Quite the scramble when the plant closure was announced in the 80s.

I've lived in a building (an old boarding house converted to apartments) that had old style radiators. But these weren't steam. Just hot water. But the radiators looked the same.