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Brand new boiler- water tube has gunk in it
seaamygo
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I just had my brand new peerless boiler installed two weeks ago. It’s been cold enough here in Connecticut for it to fire up every day since then. It’s been working well but when I went down to the basement to put away some Halloween decorations I was looking at it & noticed that the glass tube which Shows me the water level was going up and down (always below the level line sticker) and the tube has brown gunk in it. The boiler was running while I was looking at it. Should the water in the tube be clear?
The one photo that has the yellow arrow shows where the water level was when I took that picture
The one photo that has the yellow arrow shows where the water level was when I took that picture
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Not surprising. A new boiler installation will almost always loosen lots of gunk. Call your installer back to flush it out.
You may need to have this done more than once.All Steamed Up, Inc.
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seaamygo,
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> @seaamygo said:
> I just had my brand new peerless boiler installed two weeks ago. It’s been cold enough here in Connecticut for it to fire up every day since then. It’s been working well but when I went down to the basement to put away some Halloween decorations I was looking at it & noticed that the glass tube which Shows me the water level was going up and down (always below the level line sticker) and the tube has brown gunk in it. The boiler was running while I was looking at it. Should the water in the tube be clear?
> The one photo that has the yellow arrow shows where the water level was when I took that picture
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Some installers like to let the boiler run for a week or two to make sure all the crap is loose, sometimes the take away the old boiler at the same time. Call the installer and ask when he's coming back to skim.
Don't be amazed if his answer is why. Some installers don't include the cost of skimming in the quote even though boiler manufacturers all view it as part of the installation. It's an easy operation as long as they installed a skim port, if they didn't install the skim port tell him you want it installed. There are several good skimming tutorials here jut search for them.
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