Debate: Should a boiler repair take 4 hours or a full day? Here's what happened to me.

I ran into a stubborn feedwater valve leak on a Cleaver-Brooks last month that I figured would be a quick fix, but it ended up taking 8 hours because the old gasket had fused to the flange. What's your cutoff for when a simple job turns into an all-day project?

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black.joel1mo ago

Man, that sounds frustrating... I spent six hours on a water heater last week because someone before me used pipe dope on every single threaded fitting instead of Teflon tape.

jordan_anderson901mo ago

Did you end up cleaning all that dope off or just replace the fittings?

alice_kim1mo ago

Yo ok but @black.joel i used to swear by pipe dope for everything until i had to undo someone else's work once. Total game changer when i finally tried tape haha.