MrMachine
02-22-2011, 01:55 PM
I just got off the phone with a Boiler engineer. I won't publicly print the name of the company, but it's one of the leading manufacturers of laundromat boilers.
We were talking about how gas is cheaper than oil to heat water, and in light of the unrest in the Middle East, the differential will most likely become greater.
He told me something that surprised me. He said that in some neighborhoods (not mine thankfully), the infrastructure for gas in NYC is so poor that on cold days there's not enough gas to go around and the dryers and boilers in those neighborhoods become starved for gas.
So if any of you guys find that your dryers or boilers are not up to par on really cold days, the reason just might be your utility and not any fault of your own.
We were talking about how gas is cheaper than oil to heat water, and in light of the unrest in the Middle East, the differential will most likely become greater.
He told me something that surprised me. He said that in some neighborhoods (not mine thankfully), the infrastructure for gas in NYC is so poor that on cold days there's not enough gas to go around and the dryers and boilers in those neighborhoods become starved for gas.
So if any of you guys find that your dryers or boilers are not up to par on really cold days, the reason just might be your utility and not any fault of your own.