This issue was not discussed at the open forum, but it seems like statute changes are going to happen, so I thought we should discuss this and include the issue in proposed changes or it may not happen for a while.
At present there is no clear requirement regarding how often a low-pressure boiler needs to be checked. There was a law that covered this in the past but it was thrown out. The old law required all low-pressure boilers to be checked every day. This created a burden for people who owned small boilers; for example, at a 10-unit apartment building. Paying someone to check the boilers every day caused some of these people to lose money on their operation overall due to the small amount of profit they had available to pay for the boiler checks. Also, the boilers were pretty small in some cases and didn't really need to be checked every day.
On the other hand, there are currently no real requirements on how often low-pressure boilers are checked and some of these low-pressure plants are huge.
Can anyone come up with a plan that might make sense for low-pressure boilers? |