Your local branchPlains Mechanical Services · Sioux City, IA2300 Hawkeye Drive, Sioux City
Plains Mechanical Services has repaired, rebuilt and installed industrial boilers since 1994. Our Sioux City team gives Sioux Falls plants emergency repairs, maintenance plans, a stocked parts counter and Thermogenics rental boilers.
Sioux Falls is part of our Sioux City team’s service area. For a tripped firetube boiler or a failed flame safeguard, a service technician heads north with tools, burner parts and controls experience. We get the boiler back online, then track down what caused the trip.
We also book burner tune-ups, safety control testing, steam trap surveys and deaerator inspections on monthly, quarterly or annual plans. Our welders and pipefitters make code repairs under our ‘R’ stamp and install power piping under our ‘S’ stamp, so one team handles the boiler and the piping around it.
Sioux Falls is covered by our Sioux City team
Large-scale pork processing and the headquarters of major health systems are among the biggest steam users in Sioux Falls. Ethanol and ag processing, college campuses and big banking operations add more, and their boilers carry that load through long plains winters.
Pork processing needs steady steam and hot water for scalding, cooking and washdown sanitation. A boiler outage stops production, so we focus on burner reliability, feedwater pumps and fast repairs.
Hospitals use steam for sterilization, humidification and heating, often with redundant boilers. We maintain the standby units too.
Ethanol plants depend on process steam to cook mash and run distillation. We service industrial burners, process piping and steam systems, and make code repairs on site.
University heating plants and federal health care facilities run large steam and hot-water systems. We work on federal and state government sites and are qualified with ISNetworld and members of Avetta.
Card and banking operations occupy large office buildings heated by boilers and hydronic loops. We service commercial and condensing boilers, pumps and controls.
Monthly, quarterly and annual maintenance plans cover burner tune-ups, low-water cutoff and safety control testing, combustion checks, steam trap surveys, deaerator inspections and water softener evaluation.
Maintenance from Sioux CityOur service technicians, ASME-certified welders and pipefitters handle tube repair and retubing, refractory and castable insulation, burner retrofits, feedwater pump service and controls. We make code repairs and alterations under our National Board ‘R’ stamp.
Repair servicesOur Sioux City parts counter is open Monday to Friday, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. It stocks new and reconditioned boiler room parts, including relief valves, gas valves and regulators, steam traps, gauges, burner parts and instrumentation. We also deliver to your plant.
Parts & suppliesThrough Thermogenics we arrange rental boilers from 150 to 500 HP. They are rated 250 psig MAWP and fire on natural gas, propane or No. 2 oil. Larger units are available on request. Our team handles setup and supports the unit in the field.
Rental boilers & fleetBoiler safety in South Dakota falls under the Department of Public Safety – State Fire Marshal (Boiler Safety), under SDCL Chapter 34-29A. Power boilers need an annual certificate inspection. Low-pressure steam and hot-water heating boilers are inspected every two years. We handle the code repairs an inspection report calls for under our National Board ‘R’ stamp.
Sioux Falls heating design temperatures sit around -10 °F, and strong winds cross open ground. Heating boilers run at high fire for long stretches, and a lockout can leave a building without heat. Cold snaps expose weak points such as frozen condensate returns, exposed piping, combustion air problems and worn burner linkages. Many winter failures start in the system around the boiler, so we check the whole system, not just the boiler.
SD Boiler Safety
South Dakota Department of Public Safety – State Fire Marshal (Boiler Safety)
From Sioux City, our team covers Sioux Falls and nearby Brandon, Harrisburg, Tea, Hartford, Dell Rapids and Canton. We also serve Brookings, SD, and Luverne, MN.
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Call 712-252-4797. Emergency service runs 24/7. We ask about the boiler and the fault, and a service technician heads up I-29 from Sioux City.
The State Fire Marshal’s boiler safety program, part of the South Dakota Department of Public Safety, inspects your boiler. Power boilers are inspected every year, and low-pressure steam and hot-water heating boilers every two years. We can make the code repairs the inspector calls for under our ‘R’ stamp.
Yes. Our Sioux City team covers the Sioux Falls area, including Brandon, Harrisburg, Tea, Hartford, Dell Rapids and Canton, plus Luverne and Brookings. Plants in those towns get the same maintenance plans, emergency repairs, parts and rental boilers.
Yes, we plan around production. Tube repairs, refractory, burner work and power piping can be scheduled into sanitation windows or weekends. A rental boiler can carry the steam load during larger jobs.
Your site needs a level pad, truck and crane access, fuel, electrical power, feedwater and a steam tie-in. Single units are 8' wide, 8' high and 20' or 30' long.
Call 712-252-4797 for emergency repairs, maintenance plans, parts or a rental boiler. Our Sioux City team takes the call.
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