Monthly Archives: March 2017

From the Field: Damaged objects

An inspector found this damaged, shorted out, on fire tube boiler. Note the discolored and streaked areas.

As found electrical control panel damaged and shorted out on fire tube boiler. Note discolored and streaked areas.

Damaged electrical control panel

And then there’s this: a hot water boiler with excessive dissimilar metal corrosion of the piping. Because of this damage our inspector could not certify this object for continued use.

Hot water boiler with corrosion

Hot water boiler with corrosion