Dupont Circle, Washington DC / 600 sf addition / Triangle Tube Prestige gas boiler, Uponor radiant floor heat, Daikin AC system / David Jameson Architect / The Ley Group builder / photo credit Paul Warchol
Passive Home
Bethesda, Maryland / 4,200 sf new residential construction / unique mechanical system including variable refrigerant flow system, high efficiency boiler, indirect domestic hot water, two energy recovery ventilators, high efficiency filtration, passive ground loop to temper fresh air / Peabody Architects
Leesburg Estate
Leesburg, Virginia / 28,000 sf / commercial mechanical package including four boilers, two domestic hot water tanks, three commercial chillers, radiant floor heat, wine chiller, commercial steam humidifiers, HEPA filtration, energy recovery ventilators, communicating thermostat system
Wormley School Condominiums
Georgetown, Washington DC / 7 condos, 1,500-4,500 sf / mechanical package including radiant floor heat, ventilation, central boiler plant, and snowmelt / Cunningham + Quill Architects
Wormley Row
Georgetown, Washington DC / 5,500 sf rowhomes / mechanical systems featuring high-efficiency boiler system, domestic hot water, radiant floor heat / Cunningham + Quill Architects / Encore Development
Fort Scott Residence
Arlington, Virginia / 3,000 sf new residential construction / mechanical package including Lochinvar Knight gas boiler, stainless indirect DHW tank, radiant heat, Unico chiller, four high-velocity AC zones / David Jameson Architect / LifeCraft, Inc. general contractor / photo credit Nic Lehoux
Seymour Krieger House enjoys second generation of radiant along with complete mechanical update
This house, located in Bethesda, MD, was designed in the 1950s by internationally renowned modernist architect Marcel Breuer. It is known as the Seymour Krieger House and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Seymour Krieger House currently is owned by an architect, and he wanted to restore the mechanical system while keeping [...]
Steam boilers: Italianate farmhouse in Thurmont, Maryland
This beautiful Italianate farmhouse was built in 1860 and has been in the same family ever since. It’s located in Thurmont, Maryland, just north of Frederick. The current owner’s father was a steamfitter and installed the steam heating system in the 1940s. The home originally had two Kewanee steel oil boilers. We replaced one several years [...]
Steam boilers: Returning another system to its former glory
Steam boilers are one of our specialties here at Foley Mechanical. Steam heating systems haven’t been installed since the 1940s, but they’re still out there in the basements of older buildings all across America. Repairing and maintaining them is a dying art, which is why we see many botched systems out there during the course of our [...]