Boiler condensate

Brad White_9

about the marble chips right in an over-size receiver, Hot Rod.

The "outdoor discharge" thread, now that I recall, was to a dry well, sleeved below ground and below frost line, so a good point of reminder.

Now, if I could only harness the hydrogen resulting from the neutralization process into something useful like a fuel cell or dirigible... :)

saxman251

How do I....

I am putting in a w-m ultra 80 boiler, and I cannot figure out what to do about the condensate. Boiler is in the basement, but there are no drains down there (washing machine is on 1st floor on other side of house from boiler). The only waste plumbing anywhere near the boiler is the cast iron main. Any suggestions?

Timco

Use a condensate pump to get te water to the stack & cut in a 'Y' and a p-trap or pump it outside. Here in SLC you can pump it outside.

Tim

Brad White_26

Don't drink it

You will have to pump it and if cast iron drainage, neutralize it.

I used to use a drywall commpound bucket (thought it was PVC, I think that they are HDPE plastic). Filled it with marble chips and had a 1.25" tapping out the side to a Little Giant disposal pump. The PH came out close to 7 maybe 8 if it sat a while. (Starts at about 4.5)

Come to find out the condensate attacks the plastic that drywall buckets are made of, turns it brittle and sharp. Amazing. So now PVC or CPVC pipe is recommended. A piece of 4" tube 18 inches long with a pair of 4x4x2 tees, one at each end and a cleanout plug at each end to fill it with marble chips. Inflow into one of the 2-inch tee tappings and the outflow out the other, rotated 180 degrees from the first. To the pump and out she goes.

Another thread a few weeks ago had the effluent go outside to a blueberry patch and made the most incredible blueberries. Who knew??

When you connect to the drain, make sure you have a trap seal and indirect waste stack with an air gap and vented.

grindog

condensate pump

put in a condensate pump and run it over to the cast iron main. cut in a trap and make sure you at least put in some type of mechanical vent if you can not do so traditionally.

hr

You might

find a condensate pump with a large enough capacity to add some marble chip right in the container. Little Giant offers a lot of different models.

It's usually easy to pipe that small condensate line over, and into to a washer standpipe drain. Or add a Y branch tailpiece under a sink drain. Might be easier then getting into a cast iron soil pipe, especially a legally vented connection

I'm not sure about outside. Could be a freeze issue, and at low temperature operation they make a lot of "water" My 80K Lochinvar would nearly fill a 5 gallon bucket in a days work. That, on a daily basis, would be more than your frozen lawn would like to see

hot rod

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Mike T., Swampeast MO

Condensate for Blueberries

Might have to try that during the non-winter months. I've wanted to grow blueberries for long time, but soil here is naturally quite alkaline.

Ted_9

Marble chips

So, where does one buy marble chips? What else can be used?

Does anyone have a picture of their neutralizing kit?

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Brad White_9

Marble Chips

Being half-Swedish and six feet tall, I just walk in a low-hangng crawlspace and -BANG- get all the chips I need

Garden supply house, Ted. You could probably use any kind of limestone but not powdered lime. That would form a cake of cement.

Once spent, the chips are rounded and relatively smooth with little pin holes. If you listen carefully on a still night, you can hear the Alka Seltzer jingle...

I really should detail the neutralizer and post it. Let me get on that. PVC pipe, tees and cleanouts.