Brad Manor Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 Came across this unit today and I'm trying to get an idea of its approximate age. Image Insert: 475.92 KB Image Insert: 654.76 KB Image Insert: 605.47 KB I know its old, I'm just curious how old. Thanks guys, -Brad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Katen Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Manor Posted October 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 Were they still burning coal in Windsor in the 40's and 50's? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Manor Posted October 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Kibbel Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 That boiler was manufactured well before 1940. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Manor Posted October 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 This is the house I found it in: Image Insert: 378.16 KB -Brad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 Brad, That house and that boiler sure don't seem contemporary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Manor Posted October 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 I was guessing around mid 40s for the house, but the boiler struck me as odd.... hence my confusion. -Brad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 I would be confused too! Ya know, it is kinda nice agreeing with Bill K! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonOfSwamp Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 I dunno, Around here, that might be a 1930's house. OT - OF!!! M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Amaral Posted October 20, 2007 Report Share Posted October 20, 2007 I'd go for late 1930's.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Kubs Posted October 20, 2007 Report Share Posted October 20, 2007 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Manor Posted October 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2007 Yep. There are lots of oil stubs here, but very few tanks. -Brad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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