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I was thinking about all this years later when I went out to look at a problem steam job with my pal Alan Levi, Ace Troubleshooter. The basement looked vaguely familiar, but then, I’ve been in a couple of basements.
"What do you think of the way the piping comes back from those steam traps, Dan?" "Oh, that’s not right," I said. "It should be this way." I made a sketch. He looked at it and nodded in agreement. "And how about these lines here? Shouldn’t there be steam traps on them too?" "Of course there should be," I said, sketching again. "There are a lot of mistakes here, Alan, but don’t worry, we can fix them. By the way, who installed this system?" "I did." "You did?" My eyes widened, but I was thinking about coffeepots and drapes and sand walkways so I didn’t laugh. I just smiled a little and said, "Don’t worry. We can fix it."
"What?" "When I installed this stuff? All this wrong stuff that’s put in the wrong way?" He waved his arms toward the botched job. "All this stuff we can fix now? Guess who told me how to do it?" And then I remembered. Alan smiled as the job came back to me like an unpaid bill. A much-younger Alan and Dan had visited this job years earlier. I remembered now. We stood in this same boiler room, scratching our heads and looking at each other while the customer waited upstairs for answers. Steam job, eh? Well, let’s see . . . Yeah . . . steam job.
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We went over the problems as we found them and Alan and I made a list of what was wrong with the installation.
"Oh, I’m sure we can, Dan," Alan answered. "But you know what the best part is?"| Dan Holohan - [Intro] | [Email] | [Website] |
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