What a pain

Cosmo

I had a no heat call sat. night. I did a boiler replacement there three years ago, and of course this must have been MY fault. I wen't to the customer's house to find the oil filter all clogged up. After I cleaned the almost sooted shut boiler, replaced nozzle, filter etc. I started the burner and burner ran terribly, and the filter vacuum guage went haywire. So after doing some more investigating I noticed the cap on the underground tank wasn't where it used to be. After clearing the snow I found the fill pipe bent over and detached from the tank. Uh oh...... Turns out the homeowner had a company cleaning her lawn and they must have ran over the tank fill and vent pipes sticking up from the ground...and never told her what happened. This was two weeks ago.... since then we have had rain, snow, etc. There is a lot of sludge in that 500gallon tank. So I was working until 11:00pm getting a tank installed in the basement, waiting for an oil delivery (I am glad they were willing to come!). I have never seen such a mess, I am glad that it wasn't my fault! Now I have to deal with getting someone to clean out the dirt, water, sludge, oil mixture out of this tank. Luckily the plastic dielectric bushings just gave way and the tank has'nt been destroyed. At least it is something to be happy about.....

I would have been much happier at Heatboy's Christmas Open House!!!! Sorry I couldn't make it, heatboy
Casmo
Dependable P.H.C. Inc.

heatboy

Another story.

A few of years ago, I installed the system pictured below. The fuel is stored in a 1000 gallon fiberglass that is buried 20’ off the East Wall. The system ran fine from start-up till 3 months later when one night in January I get a call at 10 PM informing me there is no heat in the building. I get there, set-up and reset the burner with no ignition. I removed the nozzle and noticed there was nothing but water! My heart sank. I dropped the fuel filter and there was nothing but water there also. *$&#^#@*@(!! 12” of water in the fuel tank. Naturally, I thought I must have not tightened a fitting at the top of the tank and since we just had a huge Winter rainstorm. We did pressure test at time of install with no problems, so it must have happened during back fill, right? No. I had put a 2” box fill on the tank and the local oil company with their infinite wisdom, decided to remove the fill lid insert and install a male fast fill in the threads of the box fill. I don’t need to tell you how the water got into the tank. Yep, right down around the threads from day 1. The hard rain just made it leak faster and fill with water quicker. It cost the owner $650 to have me clean all of the water out of the tank and fuel system. Now I just put 2” caps on all of my fill pipes so the next brain dead, delivery guy will have to use a female fill. Just when you think you’ve seen it all......

Casmo, I had a beer for you at the party!

Warm Regards,

heatboy

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Dennis - Reliable Services

Nice install, but

> A few of years ago, I installed the system

> pictured below. The fuel is stored in a 1000

> gallon fiberglass that is buried 20’ off the East

> Wall. The system ran fine from start-up till 3

> months later when one night in January I get a

> call at 10 PM informing me there is no heat in

> the building. I get there, set-up and reset the

> burner with no ignition. I removed the nozzle

> and noticed there was nothing but water! My

> heart sank. I dropped the fuel filter and there

> was nothing but water there also. *$&#^#@*@(!!

> 12” of water in the fuel tank. Naturally, I

> thought I must have not tightened a fitting at

> the top of the tank and since we just had a huge

> Winter rainstorm. We did pressure test at time

> of install with no problems, so it must have

> happened during back fill, right? No. I had put

> a 2” box fill on the tank and the local oil

> company with their infinite wisdom, decided to

> remove the fill lid insert and install a male

> fast fill in the threads of the box fill. I

> don’t need to tell you how the water got into the

> tank. Yep, right down around the threads from

> day 1. The hard rain just made it leak faster

> and fill with water quicker. It cost the owner

> $650 to have me clean all of the water out of the

> tank and fuel system. Now I just put 2” caps on

> all of my fill pipes so the next brain dead,

> delivery guy will have to use a female fill.

> Just when you think you’ve seen it all......

> Casmo, I had a beer for you at the party!

>

> Warm

> Regards,

>

> heatboy

>

> "Expert in Silent

> Warmth"™

>

> 610.250.9885

>

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Dennis - Reliable Services

Nice install, but

draft diverter is in wrong place, should be just above boiler. Putting it at end of Tee makes for easy chimney inspection, but think about the path of draft.