When you’ve been in the commercial heating business for over 40 years, you see a lot more than just boiler installs and repairs. Our team here at Controlled Combustion have not just seen it all, but we do it all. When a valued, longtime client of ours was in need of an oil tank removal, we knew exactly what to do. Here’s a look into this major project we completed at the start of 2022.
This apartment building in Manhattan was in dire need of help. Controlled Combustion provided the mobile oil tank to restore heat.
Boiler Room Flood Damage Repairs Throughout the night of September 1st, 2021, New York City was hit with record-breaking rainfall and heavy winds. The rainstorm was the remnants of Hurricane Ida and caused devastating floods and damage across the city. It was the first time that New York City had issued a flash flood emergency …
A firetube boiler provides a large heating surface area from its composition of many small, heated tubes within the boiler. These types of boilers do require regular maintenance to maximize their efficiency. This maintenance includes both preventative and corrective. When an issue arises, our goal is to get your boiler back online efficiently and promptly. …
A firetube boiler is a boiler where hot flue gas passes through the tubes set within the water vessel. The burner fires through the blast tube, generating heat throughout the firetubes. The generated heat flows through the tubes and heats the surrounding water by way of convection. Like with any heating equipment, there are potential …
Carbon Lighthouse, an energy conservation engineering company, recently contacted us about upgrading our shared client’s gas and oil-fired Cleaver-Brooks boiler combustion controls to achieve better efficiency and less cycling. Their existing boiler’s combustion control maintains the combustion air and fuel ratios with a single-point positioning system. Single-point positioning utilizes a modulating motor that drives …
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With 40 years in this industry, we understand how difficult it can be when your boiler breaks down or a boiler outage. A defective boiler cannot provide heat or hot water and may become a safety hazard. Some worst-case scenarios are loss of life, uninhabitable residences, insurance claims, or emergency replacements.
On January 13th at 5am a 3-foot water main broke sending over 500,000 gallons of water rushing down Broadway and turning the streets between West 61st and West 65th into a river. NYC & Con Ed Crews worked for over 3 hours to shut off the water but by that time many of the local …
