The picture above is of a dirty boiler tube.

A lot of people say we are nuts BUT we clean the boilers that are covered by our guaranteed fuel savings maintenance and service agreement on a monthly basis.

The facts are that a clean boiler is an efficient boiler. Our maintenance team recently cleaned a boiler for a new client that was moderately dirty. The property owner claimed that the boiler was not cleaned in 6 months.

To prove a point, I asked the LESSOIL Maintenance team to take before and after efficiency readings. Prior to cleaning, the boiler had an exhaust gas temperature of almost 700 degrees and after we were done it was reduced down to 325 degrees. That represents almost a 25% better heat retention rate for the boiler.

Fuel savings is a lot about fundamentals and making things work the way they were designed to. Boiler cleaning is Fuel Savings 101, a fundamental part of any fuel conservation program.