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We have found most clients are pleasantly surprised by our effort to keep their floors clean. It makes for repeat business! 2. If it's not already there, I'll pipe in a boiler drain and ball valve on each leg of the wet return. This allows me to flush the line and direct the mess through a garden hose to a safe place outside the building. The cost of the few fittings is worth it. It shows customers that you care about their system and keeping their home clean. On new boiler installations, I install the boiler drains and valves as part of the installation. 3. I would suggest a couple ideas. Fit an adaptor to connect a pump discharge hose and run it to a safe location. Maybe hire your local drain cleaner with a water jetter and big sucker truck. 4. A lot of speedy dry, a good vinyl tarp and a wet vac do the trick. Even better, change those old drain valves to full-port ball valves and give it a good flush.
6. Attach a garden hose at a hose cock to an outside drain. 7. What we have done with one system, an old school built in 1911, was to use a sewer rooter service. The man inserts the cutter of the correct diameter and cuts out the crud. As he pulls the cable back, we wipe it with a rags, and as the glop is pulled out finally. we pull it into a ring of rags, weaved loosely together to make a well. Then we suck up the mess with a wet/dry vacuum by introducing some water as we go to make the crud into a slurry.
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1. We use newspaper, red rosin paper and kitty litter. We are as careful as possible, but spills do happen. Because we know this, we also bring along a heavy-duty mop and wringer bucket. This, along with a good floor cleaner, enables us to leave the work area cleaner than we found it.
5. We use a big shop vac to suck out the water as we flush the return out. Just make sure you have a safe place to empty the vac because that will make a mess too.| Dan Holohan - [Intro] | [Email] | [Website] |
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