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Near Boiler Piping for Steam (16 Series Utica Boiler - UH1605HSID)

mboksz
mboksz Member Posts: 10
in THE MAIN WALL
Does anyone know what are the pipes that are going down here ?
Are they cutting through some floor?
Or are they just dead end for debris collection ?

This image is from their instruction booklet - I have marked the mystery piping with arrows.


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  • Jamie Hall
    Jamie Hall Member Posts: 24,839
    Debris collection, and a handy place to get rid of same...
    Br. Jamie, osb
    Building superintendent/caretaker, 7200 sq. ft. historic house museum with dependencies in New England
  • JUGHNE
    JUGHNE Member Posts: 11,274
    A drip leg, dirt leg....just a pipe nipple with a cap on the end.
    They will fill with sludge and sediment and should be opened and checked every year or so.

    The nipple is often cut to length so the cap sits on the floor providing support.
    But then those are a bear to remove.
    You can put a brick below them to sit on and by removing the brick you could unscrew the dirt leg.
  • mboksz
    mboksz Member Posts: 10
    Make sense - thank you

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