Boiler

No telling what it could do to the medicine.

thing at a time the air was thick almost suffocating and i was forced to take the stairs my room turned out was located somewhere on the second floor i just needed to go three flights down to reach the basement why the basement you might ask and not the ground floor simple according to the fire escape plans posted at each landing the boiler room was in the basement and somebody needed to turn off the heat when i reached the final landing i had to stop and catch my breath Doing cardio in this kind of temperature was like climbing Mount Everest without an oxygen mask, or so I would assume.

I was pushing the limits of my body while other factors pushed the limits of my mind.

It was not a great place to be making life or death decisions, but there wasn't anybody else here to make them for me.

I wasn't completely and utterly alone.

There was somebody else down here.

The door in front of me, the one labeled Boiler Room, was cracked open.

I couldn't remember if it was already open when I got here.

They haven't been paying anything.

They're so far in debt, and the people that are living there, the toilets, Boilers don't work half the time and they're not getting the water and it's moldy.

And they got all these issues at this northern village apartments to the point where St. Louis County Executive Sam Page is threatening to condemn the entire complex.

And I thought, where you been, man? This stuff doesn't happen overnight.

This is the ninth year we have celebrated Industrial Water Week.

Industrial Water Week 2026, everything you do this week, you wanna hashtag it to Industrial Water Week, which is IWW26, and we are gonna be able to share all of your favorite boiler pictures today.

Yesterday, we saw some water softeners, we saw some ROs, we saw some filter vessels, we saw all sorts of pre-treatment devices getting the shout-out that they deserve because you gave them the limelight when you took your picture and you hashtagged it to IWW26.

Well, today it's all about boilers, and the theme today is how well are we taking care of our boilers? Now, I know if you're the industrial water treater in charge of that boiler, that boiler is in good hands.

Now, nation, honestly, each day, every day, you know you're not selling product.

You are not checking chemistry.

You knew I was gonna say that.

You've heard this podcast before, and the scorecard is very simple.