Burnham,steam boilers - leakers

kevin coppinger_4

a month ago...The woman was storing the salt for her water softener 5 ft from the boiler AND she was venting the clothes dryer into the basement....pinholed at the water line....

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Gas man_7

Burnham,steam boilers - leakers

My company has had 3 calls in the last year, boilers sections leaking ,all under warrantee - 5,6,and 9yrs old, anyone out there with similar problems ??? Maybe Glen Stanton from Burnham could respond ! Always had great respect for the boilers and very few problems ! Was there a design change ? Others had mentioned problems with leakers also !

JohnNY

Leakers

I've come across 4 in the last 5 years. They were all but one due to horrible installation and neglect.

Burnham took responsibility for the one that had a factory defect.



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Peter Groenewold

one 9 years old, but not under warranty

In December, we had one on one of our own installations, so it wasn't the installation. Burnham would not warranty it as the warranty was only one year until 2000, when it went to 10, or so they told me.
This was a 500,000 BTU boiler.

We put some oatmeal in it and it's working fine now.
The landlord may have us replace it this summer, but you never know with this landlord.

Paul the Plumber
NYC

Unknown

Gas Man

I would be focusing on things that these three systems had in common. Things such as less than functional main vents, possible steam or return side leaks, water quality (high chloride levels or unbalanced PH levels), excessive water addition due to system leaks, uninsulated mains in a cooler than normal space, etc.. More often than not it has nothing to do with the boiler but everything to do with the system. There have been no design changes to the gas steam boilers. Hope this helps.


Glenn Stanton

Manager of Technical Development

Burnham Hydronics

U.S. Boiler Co., Inc.

Al Letellier_9

Burnham leakers

I have seen more than I care to remember doing insurance inspections and investigations. Burnham had a casting problem that led to many failures but much to their credit, they did stand tall and honor the warranties and added some labor to boot.

Rodney Summers

zero

never saw one yet . in over forty years . every brand but.

allenleo

well gas man...

like they say, YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. since burnham was giving boilers away free to anyone converting from oil to gas (through the gas company), i would say that they probably manufactured too many over a short time and couldn't maintain quality control. there have been a lot and i mean a lot of burnam boilers that have suffered the same fate that you speak of.


but, i do have to give burnham credit, they have been good about replacing them free of charge. they have even gone as far as replacing some of these with the megasteam boilers which i believe are the best res. steam boilers out today.

Cunner_2

Little confused

Allenleo seems to be a little confused, he's got gas and oil intertwined. The Indpendence boilers have been great boilers with a good track record from my experience, Burnham did have issue with the V7 oil boilers that were manufactured back in the 90's, but that was with the water boilers and they did do a great job standing behind the warranties. If you have a failed steam boiler I would be looking for what Glen Stanton pointed out, fresh water make-up and chloride issues.

C