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Boiler Scale

Empire_2
Empire_2 Member Posts: 2,340
in THE MAIN WALL
Cleanning is inevatable, but Hercules boiler treatment with teflom (May) help. It's hard to say. You can bet that the 100 year old pipping is crusted with crap. If you get the perculating on start up, the calcium/Iron dep ect. are in the bottom of the boiler also. Should not be any steam being created. Check pressure on boiler and then some so you aren't flashing to steam near the top on the building.

Mike T

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  • Ron Root_2
    Ron Root_2 Member Posts: 12
    Boiler Scale

    Have a Burnham IBR 248,000 btu/hr. hydronic, 14 years old with 2 series 100 pumps on a system that used to be gravity.
    It's percolating and the noise from the steam bubbles imploding is carried throughout the piping. I can isolate the boiler and flush it with a muratic acid solution, and test the ph levels. Our supplier suggested a chemical to flush the entire system. The house is 100 years old and I'm concerned about loosening even more corrosion from the piping system. Could disassemble and clean the sections, but the cost is a concern to my customer(as always)as are my other options. And on 100 year old piping, I'm not sure how long this would solve the problem. Any suggestions/advice would be appreciated.
  • George_10
    George_10 Member Posts: 580
    Check out our Hydro-Solv 9100 and Pro- Tek 922

    9100 is a very good cleaner for hydronic systems and the the 922 is a treatment product.

    You can find info on both products on our web site.

    www.rhomarwater.com

    You could also call me. 800-543-5975

    Old, gunked up, systems respond well to our cleaner.
  • adayton_2
    adayton_2 Member Posts: 130
    System -VS- Boiler Cleanout

    All the article hereabouts and on the manufacturers recommends are to clean the BOILER ONLY not the system (piping). You drain some water off the Boiler so that you can pour you "wet" cleaner mixture in (some of the cleaners are in powder form), then you crank the boiler SOFTLY up to 200 degrees F ,,,*** DO NO MAKE STEAM *** ,,, Keep diddling the flame on/off to maintain about 200*F for an hour or two then drain THEN allow to cool before flushing a few times with fresh (cold water). Depending on how "muddy" the effluvient water looks (and how badly packed with crud the boiler was)you may have to repeat the process once or twice more. Finally fill with fresh water, run up steam for an hour or so an then test the boiler water PH and adjust as necessary plus add additives for protection.

    HOWEVER, *** IMPORTANT *** iF IT IS "BURBLING" badly on startup there is a good chance the xchanger has already developed an corosion fault spot so thin that the boiler is in imminent danger of popping a hole right through the water jacket.... Just another potential scenario to advise the Home Owner. i.e., The Home owner has to realize that a cleaning process MAY remove cakes of "mud" that could be the cause of this anomoly and get several more years service from the boiler..OR.. It may only temporarily ease the problem until the thinned coroded jacket finally developes a water leak.

    On such old ( and probably ill-tended system) it is NOT advisable to "clean" the entire system (piping). Clean the boiler only.

    Alfred

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