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Is it steam or hot water?
seb
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I am completely new to radiators, and we're moving into a place that has them. We have no access to the previous tenants, and the landlord doesn't know anything about the system either.
How do I tell if we have steam heat or hot water heat?
I'm also finding lots of conflicting info about how often hot water radiators need to be bled, can you help?
Thanks so much!
How do I tell if we have steam heat or hot water heat?
I'm also finding lots of conflicting info about how often hot water radiators need to be bled, can you help?
Thanks so much!
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A picture is
worth a thousand words.
Take a photo of one of the radiators, including the piping to it.0 -
Go down to the boiler
Take a pic & post it. Then we can tell you.
As for radiators and bleeding, if they are steam, never. If they are for hot water, anymore then once in the beginning of the heating season indicates some kind of problem.
Tell your landlord, who you pay, to get a little involved and get someone out there to go over the system, with you presentThere was an error rendering this rich post.
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Thanks, I'll post a pic Monday
Thank you! I'll post a pic on Monday when we get access to the house.0 -
steam and hw
steam boiler has a sight glass on the side of the boiler, a tall skinny tube of glass maybe 12" in height and 1/2" in diameter.
If you have one pipe serving each radiator it's steam. If there's two it could be either steam or hw.
if this doesn't help, you gotta post pics0 -
Type of vent
From where you looking at just the radiator , if the side vent is half way down the side of the radiator or no vent at all it would be steam... If the vent is high near the top of the radiator it would be water ... If an old ceiling tank is still on a hot water system air can migrate up to a radiator . you can tell if radiator is cool on top and warm on the bottom .. Just bleed the top vent until you see water .....There was an error rendering this rich post.
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