My daughter is renting the basement apartment of a 100-year-old home. It's a fairly decent little place. Except for this. Can someone please tell me why there are cast iron pipes cut open, with air registers over them? Yesterday during the storm they were all full of flowing water. I checked a couple of them and they were all the same, cracked open cast iron pipe under the floor registers. What is going on here? I have more pictures if needed.
someones attempt at replacing radiators with forced air?
It took me a minute to understand this. But it makes sense. Obviously there would be some evidence of these CI lines running back to a fan set up? Towards the radiators themselves? I only believe it BC old timers used to do some highly original set ups for all sorts of problems.
That's my guess.