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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gregsglass, post: 105533, member: 78&quot;]Hi SeaGoat,</p><p>&nbsp; My last house was a 1909 farmhouse. I was really worried about the wiring in the place. I got the house so cheap that I was able to replace all the wiring, the water piping, a new roof with real copper gutters and down spouts. Copper snow guards. this was in 1990 before the price of copper went sky high. In fact is was only 250 dollars more than the usual aluminum gutters. I miss that place so much but the stairs would have killed me by now. I must say the steam heat was so good, there was NEVER any knocking or rattling. An old plumber told me to replace the usual little steam valves with much more expensive ones. They were about 10 dollars more each. With them I NEVER had hissing or any noise. The secret was to keep the valves open all the way and let the new valves do the opening and closing. No one ever heard the furnace click on or close. The rads stayed hot for hours even when the furnace turned off. I cut my gas bill in half using those valves instead of running around shutting off or turning the valves half off or less at the pipe.</p><p>greg[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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