How old is this boiler???

[Brad Manor]

Came across this unit today and I'm trying to get an idea of its approximate age.

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I know its old, I'm just curious how old.

Thanks guys,

-Brad

[Jim Katen]

Originally posted by Brad Manor

Came across this unit today and I'm trying to get an idea of its approximate age.

I know its old, I'm just curious how old.

Thanks guys,

-Brad

Train of thought:

It looks too small to be from the teens or twenties.

Somewhere in the early 50's the jackets became less rounded and more squarish.

There wasn't a whole lot of building going on from 1929 to 1942 becuse of the depression. (Or is that not true for Canada?)

That would make it slightly post war. Let's say 1946-1953.

How old was the house?

- Jim Katen, Oregon

[Brad Manor]

Thanks Jim, you are probably right. My best guess for the age of the house would put it somewhere in the early to mid 40s. The house did have a poured concrete foundation, which is very rare for houses of that vintage around here.

-Brad

[kurt]

Were they still burning coal in Windsor in the 40's and 50's?

[Brad Manor]

Coal was pretty much gone around here by the 40s. Some working class neighbourhoods had coal until the 50s. Most houses from that era were on piped in oil. My own house, from the 20s shows signs of Windsors HVAC evolution: coal bin (now a cold room), oil stub, patches in the hardwood where the returns for the gravity furnace were, and now a high eff, furnace.

-Brad

[Les]

Well, I am not in agreement with the others. That unit looks to be mid-teens. Viking, Crane are a couple of clues. Viking was pretty much gone in mid thirties and Crane became the brand. Windsor and Detroit are nearly the same for technology.

I remember installing that one; nice family on the southeast side of town. They had a black german shepard dog.

[Bill Kibbel]

That boiler was manufactured well before 1940.

[Brad Manor]

This is the house I found it in:

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-Brad

[Les]

Brad,

That house and that boiler sure don't seem contemporary.

[Brad Manor]

I was guessing around mid 40s for the house, but the boiler struck me as odd.... hence my confusion.

-Brad

[Les]

I would be confused too!

Ya know, it is kinda nice agreeing with Bill K!

[SonOfSwamp]

Industrial design on the heater says 30s to me. Outdoor pic of the neighborhood says just post-WWII.

Split the difference, and it could be late 30s.

Regardless, the house could use a new heater. But you knew that.

WJ

[kurt]

Originally posted by inspecthistoric

That boiler was manufactured well before 1940.

That was my take also. Someone took a boiler from somewhere else & put it in a post WWII house.

[hausdok]

I dunno,

Around here, that might be a 1930's house.

OT - OF!!!

M.

[Rob Amaral]

I'd go for late 1930's..

[Kyle Kubs]

Originally posted by Brad Manor

Coal was pretty much gone around here by the 40s. Some working class neighbourhoods had coal until the 50s. Most houses from that era were on piped in oil. My own house, from the 20s shows signs of Windsors HVAC evolution: coal bin (now a cold room), oil stub, patches in the hardwood where the returns for the gravity furnace were, and now a high eff, furnace.

-Brad

I'm on the "boiler dosen't match the house" side. at least in my area it wouldn't. May have been a left over from the bargain bin that some builder got a deal on... I'd say it was made in the late 20's - early thirties at the latest.

Now to the thread splitter. - Did you say piped in oil??? as in supplied from the street?

[Brad Manor]

Yep. There are lots of oil stubs here, but very few tanks.

-Brad