Hi,

I’m in the midst of a gut renovation. We’ve put in all new systems – we went to fire the boiler on Friday to get the heat on (I live in CT) — the guy who supplies my oil for the last ten years (he’s been good to me on a couple of other things) told me he didn’t want to fire the boiler because it didn’t have a low water cut-off. I called the plumbers and they stated that they don’t always put low-water cut-offs on their boilers (I find this hard to believe) and net-net that they could go with a mechanical cut-off vs one that’s threaded in — I checked the boiler in my current house and the low-water cut-off is threaded in and when I heard mechanical — I’m thinking that means it will fail at some point — I realize that they probably don’t want to go the threaded route because it might require draining the boiler — I’m really just looking for feedback from folks that understand this stuff as I definitely do not understand all this stuff (as I’m sure you could tell from reading this posting :-))

Thanks for the help.

Devin