Hello. My name is Ştefan (or Steven, if you like).
I'm from Bucharest, capital of Romania. Borned here, raised here.
My passion for some old plumbing cames from the fact that I have a certain fascination for pre-1949 bigger apartament buildings in Bucharest (Bucharest is only one city in Romania that haves a lot of them; there are just few other cities that haves let's say more then a few 3 stories apartament buildings built in that period),
trought all that my dream is to live in a pre 1941 single house (so no neibghours attached to the walls) - I do live in a communist apartament building (quite o.k. building).
If on electricity domanian you can find for sale some forgein books published before communism, on sanitary and heating instaltions, I dind't found no big general one, except for a 1930 German one (hard to traduce, since it was priting using Fraktur alphabet). I found only one scanned catalogue. Fourtenley, up untill early '60's some of the pre-war stuff was preserved in manufacturing armatures and installations, so I can find some info on postwar books (in pre-communist Romania there wheren't to many tehcnical books published) some infos. But I want to find more. And I was amazed that building heating could be partially automated. Oh, I was borned a few years before fall of Ceauşescu, so some thing are still amazing to me, even if before 2000-2002 you could find very old stuff still in work here, but I didn't had the curiosity and the knowledge of what to ask back then...
I'm from Bucharest, capital of Romania. Borned here, raised here.
My passion for some old plumbing cames from the fact that I have a certain fascination for pre-1949 bigger apartament buildings in Bucharest (Bucharest is only one city in Romania that haves a lot of them; there are just few other cities that haves let's say more then a few 3 stories apartament buildings built in that period),
trought all that my dream is to live in a pre 1941 single house (so no neibghours attached to the walls) - I do live in a communist apartament building (quite o.k. building).
If on electricity domanian you can find for sale some forgein books published before communism, on sanitary and heating instaltions, I dind't found no big general one, except for a 1930 German one (hard to traduce, since it was priting using Fraktur alphabet). I found only one scanned catalogue. Fourtenley, up untill early '60's some of the pre-war stuff was preserved in manufacturing armatures and installations, so I can find some info on postwar books (in pre-communist Romania there wheren't to many tehcnical books published) some infos. But I want to find more. And I was amazed that building heating could be partially automated. Oh, I was borned a few years before fall of Ceauşescu, so some thing are still amazing to me, even if before 2000-2002 you could find very old stuff still in work here, but I didn't had the curiosity and the knowledge of what to ask back then...