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where's all the condensate???

ToddM
ToddM Member Posts: 13
in Strictly Steam
I have a Burnham 4 section steamer Installed 4/97. Always ran great-plenty of heat. Not too noisey etc... 3 yrs ago a local oil company added an auto feeder(owner is 80+ and legally blind) Ok that makes sense. This year it feeds every cycle. I'm guessing the return that runs in a crawl space that I cant get to just yet has a leak, and condensate is going into the ground...The boiler needed water maybe once a month in previous years. Now the feeder cycles mid heating cycle when the lwco is looking for h20.. Could there be something I'm missing?

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  • Steamhead
    Steamhead Member Posts: 17,312
    It might be that return

    or it might be the boiler itself. If there is white "smoke" coming out of the chimney when the boiler runs, the boiler has a hole above the waterline. 
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