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Chimney with a Steam leak?

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Bio Member Posts: 278
in Strictly Steam
Just sharing, when you see steam in your chimney during the winter season is usually bad news for your steam boiler

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  • tkos115
    tkos115 Member Posts: 94
    How can you tell if it's steam coming from the chimney and now the regular exhaust on a cold day?
  • ChicagoCooperator
    ChicagoCooperator Member Posts: 363
    Anecdotally, on extreme cold days in Chicago, pretty much every chimney or furnace flue puts out a white plume. By extreme cold I mean down towards 0 or below. However, above about 20 only leaky boilers show the telltale white plume (I can see one from my windows down the street at the fancy building who had the "big downtown engineering firm" do their boiler replacement...).

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