Your local branchPlains Mechanical Services · Sioux City, IA2300 Hawkeye Drive, Sioux City
Plains Mechanical Services installs, repairs and maintains commercial and industrial boilers. Our Sioux City team supports Des Moines plants with code repairs, burner work, parts and Thermogenics rental boilers.
Des Moines is part of our Sioux City team’s service area, served from our shop on Hawkeye Drive. Our service technicians bring the tools and parts each job calls for, and work under our code stamps.
We book maintenance visits, tube work and refractory repairs around your production calendar. We check the whole boiler room, not just the boiler.
Des Moines is covered by our Sioux City team
Des Moines is Iowa’s capital and a national insurance hub, so much of its boiler load heats large buildings: hospitals, state offices, schools and corporate campuses. Around the metro, seed, grain and food processors use steam in production. Our team works on both, from comfort heating to process steam.
The city’s hospitals depend on steam for sterilization, humidification and heat. We maintain boilers, flame safeguards and feedwater systems.
State office complexes around the Capitol run central heating plants through long winters. We handle maintenance agreements, steam trap surveys and burner retrofits for public facilities.
Insurance and finance campuses heat their buildings with hot water and steam boilers. We tune burners, service controls and plan replacements before aging equipment fails.
Seed, grain and food plants across central Iowa use steam for cooking, cleaning and drying. Food and beverage is a core market for our team, and we know a boiler outage there stops production.
School districts, community colleges and the university campus in nearby Ames depend on steam and hydronic heat. We service, repair and upgrade these systems, often during breaks.
Maintenance agreements on monthly, quarterly or annual plans. Visits cover combustion tuning, safety control testing, deaerator inspections, feedwater pump service, water softener evaluation and steam trap surveys.
Maintenance from Sioux CityEmergency and planned repairs on boilers, burners and controls, including tube repair and retubing, refractory and castable work, and code repairs under our National Board ‘R’ stamp. We service Hurst, Johnston, Kewanee, Lochinvar, Aerco, Parker, Cleaver-Brooks and other brands.
Repair servicesOur Sioux City parts counter is open Monday to Friday, 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM, with new and reconditioned boiler room parts: valves, regulators, steam traps, burner parts, relief valves, gauges and instrumentation. We can deliver parts to your site.
Parts & suppliesThrough Thermogenics we supply rental boilers that fire on natural gas, propane or No. 2 oil. They cover planned outages, emergencies and seasonal peaks, and our team can handle setup.
Rental boilers & fleetBoilers in Des Moines fall under Iowa Code Chapter 89. The Boiler and Pressure Vessel Safety program, now part of the Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing, issues operating certificates and permits and sets inspection requirements. We carry out repairs and alterations under our National Board ‘R’ stamp, with power piping work under our ASME ‘S’ stamp.
Central Iowa winters bring heating design temperatures near -5 °F, so boilers run hard for months. We recommend testing standby units, controls and fuel trains before the cold arrives. In humid summers, process steam keeps running while comfort heating sits idle, which makes summer a good window for tube work, refractory repairs and burner upgrades.
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Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing – Boiler & Pressure Vessel Safety
From Sioux City, our team covers Des Moines and the surrounding metro: West Des Moines, Ankeny, Urbandale, Johnston, Waukee and Altoona, plus Ames to the north and Indianola to the south. Plants with buildings in several of these towns can group maintenance visits into one trip.
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Call 712-252-4797. The line is answered 24/7, and we confirm an arrival time on the call. Des Moines is about 3 hours from our Sioux City branch.
Ankeny is part of our regular Des Moines metro coverage. You get the same Sioux City crews, parts and code stamps as anywhere else in the metro.
The Boiler and Pressure Vessel Safety program at the Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing certifies Iowa boilers. It issues operating certificates and permits for boilers and unfired steam pressure vessels. We make code repairs under our National Board ‘R’ stamp.
Yes. For hospitals and other critical facilities we plan work around the plant’s redundancy. If a boiler has to come out of service with no backup available, a Thermogenics rental boiler can carry the steam load until repairs are finished.
Thermogenics rental boilers run from 150 HP to 500 HP, rated 250 psig MAWP. Larger units are available on request. Tell us your steam load and fuel, and we will match a unit to your plant.
Call Plains Mechanical Services at 712-252-4797 for emergency repair, a maintenance plan, parts or a rental boiler. We restore heat or steam first, then find the cause of the failure.
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