After 38 years in the hydronics business, Stephen Minnich of Minnich Mechanical Design is hanging up the tools. The Hub’s John Mesenbrink caught up to Stephen on his last jobsite, a 24-zone radiant system at an apartment complex in Wheaton, Ill. The change-out consisted of removing two 400,000 BTU cast-iron boilers with no boiler protection Read more
Minnich Mechanical Design
After 38 years in the hydronics business, Stephen Minnich of Minnich Mechanical Design is hanging up the tools. The Hub’s John Mesenbrink caught up to Stephen on his last jobsite, a 24-zone radiant system at an apartment complex in Wheaton, Ill. The change-out consisted of removing two 400,000 BTU cast-iron boilers with no boiler protection and no mixing among other hydronic issues that cut down the life of the boilers by 10+ years.
Minnich is installing for two Lochinvar KBN models, an upgrade from their KHN models to remedy the problem. Check out the video here.
https://youtu.be/EjBc-NZO5dE
As far as what Minnich will do in the next chapter of his career, Minnich has accepted a position with an engineering firm downtown Chicago as an HVAC consultant for multi-residential units on the Chicago area. Congrats on a great career and good luck with the next chapter in your life!
See the video here:
https://youtu.be/EaMlDcii-NY
https://www.facebook.com/mechanicalhub/videos/1121896917947132/ Part I: Replacing the old boiler While most of corporate America takes the week off between Christmas & New Year’s, much love to the guys that work tirelessly to bring heat to those who need it, like, right now, especially in these temps. Mechanical Hub recently visited with one of the brightest minds in Read more
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Part I: Replacing the old boiler
While most of corporate America takes the week off between Christmas & New Year’s, much love to the guys that work tirelessly to bring heat to those who need it, like, right now, especially in these temps.
Mechanical Hub recently visited with one of the brightest minds in the hydronics industry, Steve Minnich of Minnich Mechanical Design, Carol Stream, Ill. He was called out to the 15,000-sq.-ft. northwest suburban Chicago residence to replace a boiler in the garage that had been overtaken with mice—the control wires were literally chewed apart—and to replace an old, leaking boiler in the basement.
The basement boiler changeout, shown here, features a new Lochinvar Knight boiler, which serves 15 zones of hydronic and radiant floor heat. These two videos show the before and after, and why Minnich prefers the Lochinvar Knight as his boiler of choice. Maybe it’s the built-in outdoor reset or the 10:1 turndown so it can fire as low as 28,500 Btus and the max is 285,000 Btus. Or perhaps is the easy-accessible controls. Check it out for yourself.
https://www.facebook.com/mechanicalhub/videos/1124300667706757/
Part II: The installation of the Lochinvar Knight boiler.