In the glory days of the mighty Steamships, back then the only way to get to North America, the ship’s boiler rooms was a hive of heat and activity. It would be where the whole power for the ship in terms of moving the engines and generating the light and heat for the ship was based. If this did not run then the ship ground to a halt, literally. What was it like to work there? Suffice to say that like your own boiler it needed careful installation and maintenance. Therefore you should look at a Boiler installation Bristol way company like https://greenerhomesgroup.co.uk/ to set things up for you.

The boiler room or fire room was the very heart of the ship. Here it was that men would work tirelessly to keep the boilers going so that steam could be generated for the turbines in the engine room. It was vital to the ships safety and well being that this happened. The Engine room, although just as important, was kept separate for safety reasons but it was in the boiler room that a fire raged and needed to be kept going using coal, wood whatever its hungry heart demanded. When you consider that the ship would be at sea for days and weeks this was quite a thing to ask of the men who worked there. The fire room was originally deep within the bowels of the ship but was eventually moved up to a mid ships for protection.

The scariest part of the work there was the fact that they were surrounding by flammable material. If this was on a warship it made the work double dangerous. Keeping the fire and engine room separate was one of the first priorities for safety but it still made the boiler room a dark and dirty place to work in. One of the other concerns was the ventilation of the room. It was not only the stifling heat from the boiler but the coal dust that was in the very air that the men had to breathe. At first it was a simple task of locating the room near the hull so that literally opening a window was the only option available. Later on the room was fitted with extra exhausts and screening of the boilers to try and keep some of the heat out.

There wasn’t even that much room. Most ships had sight boilers and each had four men working to keep it going.