Hopefully someone can help:
My 2 floor plus basement summer house, basement boiler (baseboard hot water system), where the pressure relief valve is on the boiler, has what looks like a "T" fitting at the top of the pipe coming up from the boiler, , 1 part of "T" going to the relief valve, the other end of the "T" going directly to what looks like a steam release valve, which has a small thumbscrew on it.
The pressure release valve has been changed , however it occasionally "goes off", daily, & I notice water on the basement floor under the relief valve pipe. I have been in the basement once where I "caught" the pressure gauge momentarily go way up, & the release valve briefly let out a bit of water onto the floor, & the system pressure quickly go back to normal.
The problem is 90% of the time it is running normally, it is hard to catch it "in the act", & a repair person was not able to duplicate the situation while he was there, he did all the regulr bleeding of system, ect ....
Could it be that "T" at the top of the boiler has a bad steam valve (if that is what that is), would that stop the occasional momentary pressure spikes... ??
My 2 floor plus basement summer house, basement boiler (baseboard hot water system), where the pressure relief valve is on the boiler, has what looks like a "T" fitting at the top of the pipe coming up from the boiler, , 1 part of "T" going to the relief valve, the other end of the "T" going directly to what looks like a steam release valve, which has a small thumbscrew on it.
The pressure release valve has been changed , however it occasionally "goes off", daily, & I notice water on the basement floor under the relief valve pipe. I have been in the basement once where I "caught" the pressure gauge momentarily go way up, & the release valve briefly let out a bit of water onto the floor, & the system pressure quickly go back to normal.
The problem is 90% of the time it is running normally, it is hard to catch it "in the act", & a repair person was not able to duplicate the situation while he was there, he did all the regulr bleeding of system, ect ....
Could it be that "T" at the top of the boiler has a bad steam valve (if that is what that is), would that stop the occasional momentary pressure spikes... ??
