Steam pipes full of water?

HT in Pa_3

Thanks for your ideas. I drained the boiler today. Found the water to be only to the top of the boiler. Cleaned the McDonnell #67 lo-water cut-off. It needed cleaned, and must have been the cause for the high water level. Also cleaned the sightglass making it much easier to see the water level. Also checked the radiator that was spitting water yesterday, and it had no water in it. The valve (one pipe) was fully open. Any more ideas? Thanks

HT in Pa_3

Steam system FULL OF WATER?

Tennant in 2nd floor apartment has water spurting out of the steam radiator vent! Suspect the system to be full of water. The auto. water feeder hasn't been serviced for years. Could the float be stuck? Thanks for any help. HT

Paul Fredricks_3

take a look at the gauge glass. Is it full? If not, then the system isn't full either.

Is this happening on all the 2nd floor rads or just one? Is it water only coming out, or water and steam?

BRIANJ

Check and clean the valves to the sight glass

Recently had a similar problem with my cousins boiler. The gauge glass was 1/2 full but the system was filled with water. The problem was the feed to the gauge glass was filled with system mud. After cleaning, gauge glass was full. Took 8 gallons of water out of the system. It was only supposed to have 6 gallons so the total was about 14 gallons. Sounds like system could use a good cleaning if this is the problem.

Brian

William Faust

maybe

If you have a boiler feeder, the float rod in your low water cut-off could be getting stuck at the moment when it is low enough to cause the controller to call for water to be sent from the boiler feeder to the boiler. Alternatively, if you have a condensate unit, you could have a stickign float there but that is probably less likely.