Big mouth bad after 1 month

tlowc34

https://youtu.be/ZSTeZo0xMM4

Boilertrol Cut in set to .5psi, diff set to .5psi

It was throwing steam to the floor boards added nipple and elbow to direct it downward.

@Jamie Hall I guess I found my water loss.

What the heck dudes?!

ethicalpaul

that pipe isn’t doing much. Take the leaker out of service. I did too. And others

tlowc34

It’s directing condensate to the floor!

tlowc34

@ethicalpaul go to a different vent? I’m shocked, I thought these things were the new hotness

STEAM DOCTOR

> @tlowc34 said:
> https://youtu.be/ZSTeZo0xMM4
>
> Boilertrol Cut in set to .5psi, diff set to .5psi
>
> It was throwing steam to the floor boards added nipple and elbow to direct it downward.
>
> @Jamie Hall I guess I found my water loss.
>
> What the heck dudes?!
>

Was it leaking from day one or did it start leaking after a month?

nicholas bonham-carter

They have a good guarantee, so contact the factory, for a replacement. They did have a bad batch, but will stand behind their product.—NBC

tlowc34

Working great when I installed it in December. My worry is that the other 4 I installed are going to head south as well.

ChrisJ

There's no reason to worry.

They had a bad run of parts that are easily replaceable and they will stand behind. It's not a bad design.

Just keep an eye on the others or talk to the manufacturer and ask them how to proceed. They may want to swap them before they fail.

ethicalpaul

tlowc34 said:

@ethicalpaul go to a different vent? I’m shocked, I thought these things were the new hotness

Even when mine does seal, it takes a long time, puffing more steam than I want to release each cycle. I love the solidness of it and the design, but in practice it's just not great in my opinion.

And ironically due to its amazing flow capacity, it will throw a LOT of steam at your ceiling when/if it fails.

And I believe there has been more than one bad batch.

But to clarify, I wasn't say throw away your Big Mouths. I was saying take that leaking one out of service. You don't want that steam humidifying your ceiling like that and you don't want to waste all your steam into your basement.

edit: one thing that comes to mind...maybe my system is too small for it. It might require a certain steam production to close faster, I don't know.

Gsmith

I will say that I had one out of two fail on installation about two years ago. The company was very responsive to replace the one that failed, and both have worked flawlessly so far....but, these large numbers of reported failures create a lot of extra work for installers and homeowners and I would hope that the manufacturer is taking aggressive steps to improve manufacturing quality control to avoid this. Hoping some one from Barnes and Jones reads this thread.

SeanBeans

I don’t see me buying any big mouths with the amount of people coming on here saying they’ve had problems.

ChrisJ

SeanBeans said:

I don’t see me buying any big mouths with the amount of people coming on here saying they’ve had problems.

Well, with the amount of people also complaining about Gorton's I don't know what you're going to do. Hoffman?

tlowc34

10,000 MoMs lined up? Lol - it would be pretty!

Hap_Hazzard

ChrisJ said:

Well, with the amount of people also complaining about Gorton's I don't know what you're going to do. Hoffman?

Maid O' Mist. Everybody LOVES them!

ethicalpaul

Well MoM sells a #1 main vent that is the same capacity as the Gorton and it's way cheaper. I'm running one of each side by side, but go ahead and laugh everybody haha

KC_Jones

ethicalpaul said:

Well MoM sells a #1 main vent that is the same capacity as the Gorton and it's way cheaper. I'm running one of each side by side, but go ahead and laugh everybody haha

I don't know how the rest of you grew up, but I will never disrespect mom.

tlowc34

I meant no disrespect to MoM, I was thinking of the look of a bunch of #4s on a long manifold. My lol was the work involved.

Hap_Hazzard

Nobody'd better disrespect Mom!

ChrisJ

No,
But Maid O Mist sucks............

tlowc34

The views aren't bad though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTV_q3cGe5Y