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The Florists' Review 



OCTOBIB SO, 1919. 



IT PAYS TO USE — 



FI ACTir PIRP RRirV in all your boiler work. 



LLAJlll/ IIHL Dnitn Any handy man can install it. 



Use it for patching when you cannot afford to cut a boiler out. 

 ELASTIC FIRE BRICK can be used for all fire brick purposes. 



Hoerber Bros., Geo. Wittlwld Co., Miller Bros., C. Haasermaniiy John Reading anil Broadbeck the Florist 

 are using Elastic Lining. These are only a few of the thousands we are selling. 



IT COMES IN BARRELS READY FOR USE. A TRIAL ORDER WILL CONVINCE YOU. 



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about twenty square feet. A boiler 

 with somewhat smaller grate area would 

 answer, but would require closer atten- 

 tion to maintain a steady steam pressure. 

 For this grate area, I should use a chim- 

 ney twenty-four inches in diameter and 

 thirty-five feet in height. If tall trees 

 or high buildings will interfere with the 

 draft, a somewhat taller chimney should 

 be used. 



If the houses have both side walls ex- 

 posed, I should use in each house three 

 2-inch flow pipes and eleven 1^-inch 

 returns under the benches or with part 

 of them on the side walls. If the houses 

 are connected, I should use only nine re- 

 turns in the houses with one exposed 

 wall and in the houses without exposed 

 walls three 1%-inch flow pipes and 

 eight 1%-inch returns. In case all of 

 the returns are to be placed on the side 

 walls, or if overhead flow pipes are not 

 desired in the houses, two 2%-inch flows 

 on the plates and thirteen li4-inch re- 

 turns may be substituted in the houses 

 with both walls exposed. 



Unless the water level of the boiler is 

 at least three feet below the lowest part 

 of the returns, a steam trap should be 

 put in. 



FIPINQ FOB HILLSIDE HOUSES. 



Please let me know whether a 16- 

 horsepower steam boiler, converted into 

 a hot water boiler, will heat a house 20x 

 60 feet with no glass in the side walls. 

 The house is on a hillside and runs north 

 and south following the grade, with the 

 boiler at the south end. The returns 

 have a drop of four feet, while the flow 

 also runs down about six inches. Be- 

 cause of the grade, I cannot put the flow 

 on the plates and give a fall. The boiler 

 pit is nine feet deep. I want to main- 

 tain a temperature of about 60 degrees 

 at 6 degrees below zero; 23 degrees be- 

 low is the record in this locality. What 

 size of piping should I use and how 

 should I arrange it f G. S. R. — Pa. 



There should be no difficulty in heat- 

 ing a house 20x60 feet to 60 degrees in 

 zero weather with a 16-horsepower 

 boiler, if it has a grate two feet in 

 diameter. 



While I should prefer to use three 

 2%-inch flow pipes and nine 2-inch re- 

 turns, if on account of the low ridge it 

 is not found advisable to run an over- 

 head flow pipe, it will answer if two 

 flows are placed on the side walls with 

 ten 2-inch returns. As a rule, I prefer 

 to run both flow and return pipes down- 

 hill; it will not make much difference, 



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 FLORIST 



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TUB1NG> ALL SIZES 



PIPE CUT TO SKETCB 



SECOND HAND PIPE 



Large stock, all lizM, fnrniihed with new threads and eoaplings. 



JAMES F. GnlFrlTHy ph?ladblphia, pa. 



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however, especially if the boiler is sev- 

 eral feet below the returns. 



SLOPE or PIPES. 



I have two connected houses, 20x100 

 feet, with 7-foot gutters. The sides and 

 ends have 4-foot wooden walls, above 

 which they are glass. On the end next to 

 the boiler room there is a glass-covered 

 lean-to, 10x40 feet, used for potting and 

 as a passage-way for the flow pipes. I 

 should like to have the flows under the 

 benches, as are the returns. With the 

 boiler one foot below the returns, how 

 many inches pitch to every fifty feet of 

 pipe are needed in an open gravity sys- 

 tem f How many feet of 4-inch soil 



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pipe must be installed to maintain a 

 temperature of 60 degrees at zerof Is 

 there enough draft in a 30-foot smoke- 

 stack that has an inside diameter of 

 eighteen inches and an entry hole 12x12 

 inches to take care of two boilers each, 

 having a 12-inch smoke openingf Tlie 



