Kbeck Plumbing and Heating specializes in commercial hot water systems and boilers, but also offers general plumbing and heating services.
It is an A.O. Smith model with a recirculation system. Note that the tank is properly valved for flushing air from the piping. This is important because if it's not done, trapped air can run down the recirc line and burn out the pump. What is proper? There has to be a way to close off flow from the tank, or in some cases, the incoming cold line, depending on where the recirc line returns to, and force flow through past the pump and out. We've also talked down gate valves. There is a big difference between cheap gate valves, often found on residential water heaters and high-quality ones, which can be as good as ball valves.
A backflow preventer is a safety device often required to protect city water mains from contamination. They can be anywhere from one inch to 10 inches diameter. Kbeck works on all sizes. What you're seeing here is a 4-inch backflow preventer that was assembled in our shop for speed and quality of workmanship and then taken to the site. There was a reason for this. This was an eight-hour job and the water was off for that time. It couldn't be off longer since this was in a mobile home park and the line served 300 units.
We offer furnace replacement, but we like it just as well if we can fix the furnace you already have. This picture shows a horizontal, forced-air furnace that we recently installed in the crawl space of a house. As you can see, the ducting is strapped aluminum flex ducting instead of wire with plastic insulation.
Kbeck can install complete plumbing systems from scratch, or fix what is broken on existing systems, as in this case. A trash truck managed to drive over and break every water meter box on a client's property. Kbeck went through and repaired the broken plastic piping.
This was a sewer line that kept getting clogged. We repiped and regraded it. The main line went to a house, while an additional one from an outbuilding joined the main line at the Y.
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