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Acid rain indoors?
Frank_34
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Has anyone ever experienced this? For several years, my parents have noticed a strong sulfur odor around their Van Wert stoker. Their service people have been there several times for cleaning, resealing the chimney, etc yet the odor persists. Last night while building a fire for them (timer went, but thats a different issue) I noticed that the gasket on the upper part of the ash door completely deteriorated. This got the chemist in me thinking about what I thought were 2 unrelated problems.
Of late, theyve also been having trouble with corrosion & failure of the copper cold water lines around the boiler. Hot lines, no problem.
Is it possible that the gaseous sulfur compounds are disassociating in the condensate on the cold line and forming sulfuric acid? This in turn is causing the corrosion of the copper.
Of late, theyve also been having trouble with corrosion & failure of the copper cold water lines around the boiler. Hot lines, no problem.
Is it possible that the gaseous sulfur compounds are disassociating in the condensate on the cold line and forming sulfuric acid? This in turn is causing the corrosion of the copper.
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Check the chimney first
I bet it's plugged. Normally, an air leak into a firebox causes an inward flow of air rather than an outward flow into the room- unless there's no draft, as from a plugged chimney.
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Frank(not Steamhead)
Your assumption is probably correct but I would also suspect a draft problem which in turn causes the leak around the door seal to vent into the house. The corrosion you have observed happens a lot in the dairy barns around here, also only on the cold water lines that sweat and are able to "collect" the corrosive compounds or chemicals from the air.0 -
Steve, that was one reason
I came up with the nickname! Back then the main Frank was from Philly......
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