Steam boiler run time

Fred Harwood_2

I should think that your vents do not need boiling out so often. After all, condensate is distilled water, even if your vents spit.

Sounds like venting your main worked well, and probably is the reason you don't shut off on pressure.

If you want to regulate individual rads, replace your old vents with variable #1 Ventrite.

k

Boiler Run Time--One pipe Steam

Thanks to the wall and the Lost Art, I now have new Gorton#2 main vents and a vaporstat on my one pipe steam. Before the vaporstat installation, the there was a non-standard pressuretrol that the minimum setting was 3lbs. The boiler ran and ran, but blew the vents closed and the system was very unbalanced. With the new vaporstat, the system never goes off on pressure. The steam reaches the radiators in approximately ten min, sometime the boiler runs for 45 minutes straight--this is VT and it has been 13 degrees outside for several weeks. The rad vents are old Dole A-1 which I boil out every year. Is this normal? My local oil co who services the boiler does not do much steam.
Thanks.

Chris