Click here to Find a Contractor in your area.
Welcome! Here are the website rules, as well as some tips for using this forum.
Need to contact us? Visit https://heatinghelp.com/contact-us/.
Water quality for gas fired humidifier

Howdy,
Ive recently inherited a gas fired humidifier that serves at yoga studio. I removed a substantial amount of debris from the evaporator last quarter. This quarter the humidifier is throwing up foaming error codes and again there is quite a bit of junk in there. Does anyone know what this stuff is? Can someone refer a water analysis company? Id like to prevent this buildup if possible.

Ive recently inherited a gas fired humidifier that serves at yoga studio. I removed a substantial amount of debris from the evaporator last quarter. This quarter the humidifier is throwing up foaming error codes and again there is quite a bit of junk in there. Does anyone know what this stuff is? Can someone refer a water analysis company? Id like to prevent this buildup if possible.
0
Leave a Comment
Categories
- 80.9K THE MAIN WALL
- 2.5K A-C, Heat Pumps & Refrigeration
- 36 Biomass
- 394 Carbon Monoxide Awareness
- 2.6K Controls
- 1.4K Domestic Hot Water
- 3.7K Gas Heating
- 101 Geothermal
- 130 Indoor-Air Quality
- 2.3K Oil Heating
- 30 Pipe Deterioration
- 565 Plumbing
- 4.2K Radiant Heating
- 333 Solar
- 12.2K Strictly Steam
- 36 Water Quality
- 7 Industry Classes
- 51 Job Opportunities
- 7 Recall Announcements
Comments
Building superintendent/caretaker, 7200 sq. ft. historic house museum with dependencies in New England.
Hoffman Equipped System (all original except boiler), Weil-Mclain 580, 2.75 gph Carlin, Vapourstat 0.5 -- 6.0 ounces per square inch
I am sure they would have water quality and maintenance instructions.
Hard to tell as we don't know what you have
What size is the humidifier & how hard does it work? As mentioned above, daily blowdowns may be required and certainly couldn't hurt. Do perform the major & minor maintenance procedures per the manual as well.
You may want to look into tightening up the envelope to reduce humidity exfiltration. Seal up any cracks that allow outside air in, & give some thought to adding a vapor barrier if one is not present.