Shut off valve -Caleffi auto feed
Hello I had a Caleffi 553 Autofil valve installed on my gas boiler and set at 19 psi in the summer to replace the old faulty one. I think that might be too high given my house is maybe 20 feet from the...
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Boiler Drain Cap? Dripping from Drain valve
Recently paid to do maintenance on the bolier and notice the drain area continues to drip out water water overfilling the white pan fairly quickly. Before two pipes were dripping, now the long pipe no...
View ArticleYork Furnace "Ignition lockout due to retries"
Hi, I'm pretty inexperienced working on furnaces but am hoping someone with more knowledge could help me fix it. Just a few days ago I turned on my heat and noticed it wasn't working. It's a natural...
View ArticleAdvice requested: Navien tankless heater releasing more gas than it should...
Hi, I had posed this question on Reddit originally and someone suggested posting here, so I am just going to copy past the issue. New to home ownership and this bit of trouble arose today. I have the...
View ArticleHow to wire zone controller with existing transformer relay
I'm having an issue with wiring my Weil McLain gas boiler. It was wired up fine and working for a single zone. I added (2) 4 wire zone valves in. So I now have 2 zones, a Taco zone valve...
View ArticleMissing bleed valve knob - cast iron rad
Hi there We have orginal 1930s iron rads in our house (mostly Corto). There is one small rad (6 single fins mounted against wall) in a utility room that doesn’t seem to be heating. I am wondering if it...
View ArticleQuestion on whether I can put a tee in a 1/2" gas line.
Hi New to the forum. Hope someone can shed some light on my project. I am installing a new Gas, fireplace insert in my upstairs family room. I installed the insert directly underneath the upstairs...
View ArticleDamper on flue hot water boiler question
So I thought I could smell the pilot burning on my boiler when close to it and because it’s not calling for heat the damper is closed . I see a small circle open in the damper that I guess is for the...
View ArticleFurnace Roof Vent Ice Dam and Resuilting Roof Leak - HELP!!!
Hello folks - I'm really hoping someone can help me with this problem I've been trying to solve since last winter. As you can see I from the pictures I had a vertical ice damn being formed by the...
View ArticleFasNSeal
Hi gentlemen..... I have a customer that needs about 10' of FasNSeal replaced. On line they need about a month. Nothing here in Colorado Springs or Denver that I'm able to find. Duravent tech support...
View ArticleOne Tstat will call for heat and circulator works but boiler does not come on
I have a 3 zone baseboard heat system. Each zone has it's own thermostat and function normally. One zone,when heat is called for will turn the circulator pump on but the boiler does not respond. The...
View Article1107-2 Control Not Flashing
Hi all - have a Weil McLain CGA4 boiler with the 1107-2 IBCM (not to be confused with ICBM). We had an over-voltage event and lost some appliances, the furnace was one of them. I get no lights on the...
View ArticleHow do you adjust the bypass valve in a hydronic system?
My 20 year old house has a functioning 5 zone system. Water returns from each zone controlled by a thermostat and is collected in a manifold. That water is then pumped by a single speed grundfos...
View ArticleHydro Coil Heat -- Low Air Temperature
We recently moved into a two-story house that has hydro coil heat. There is a boiler that supplies hot water for two air handlers (one for upstairs, one for downstairs). The air coming out of the vents...
View ArticleHot water not getting to upstairs baseboards
I turned the heat on for the first time after the summer and my low water cutoff light came on and shut down the system automatically. I found the fill lever and added water until the light went off...
View ArticleSmith GB100W boiler problem/question
I have a new customer that has 3 of these boilers that has to at least 2 times a year change rollout Switches. His chimney is 10 inches which I suspected was the Problem, but upon further inspection I...
View ArticleWater fill level Burnham steam boiler
New to homeownership, new to steam heating. I have a two pipe system with Burnham PIN5SNC-MEZ boiler. I have no idea what the max fill level on this is. The sight glass was about half full when we...
View ArticleOil Steam Boiler converted to gas
Hello guys, I have a question about a Carlin gas burner Model 98629. I have never really had the chance to work on them so not to familiar with the product. The Burnham Steam Boiler model MST396SL-HB....
View ArticleBuzzing gas boiler
My 1970's gas boiler is making an intermittent buzzing noise. This is only whilst it is heating up/operating. I have uploaded a video of it here - https://youtu.be/0xKV4vOvr2w Any suggestions much...
View Articlerewind of 'boiler return temp-too low?'
I read this discussion on 18 Oct 18 and fascinated by the solutions. I'm trying to find the article again for review, but in scrolling the wall I don't see it posted at all. A search didn't bring up...
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