Soot on the walls at baseboard heat

jweglarz@hotmail.com

watch high boiler temps and dirt on convectors or cast baseboard start with a kiss could just need housekeeping high temps carrying dust and dirt or cig smoke

Tom_7

We noticed that we are having what seems like soot above our baseboard heaters in some rooms in our house. We called our oil company they said it had nothing to do with the heating system. They asked us if we burnt candles around the holidays which we didn't. We have no idea what it could be.

jim bannister

Soot on Walls

Click on "Hot Tech Topics" on the left hand side of the window and open the article entitled "Ghosting"

Unknown

Have your house tested

for Carbon Monoxide just to be safe.

Alan R. Mercurio

Here is the link

This is the link to the article that Jim is talking about.

Black Stains in houses: Soot, Dust or Ghost By, Frank Vigil

Your friend in the industry,

Alan R. Mercurio

Oil Tech Talk

Frank_17

soot

I've run into this many times.
It may have something to do with the heating system. You soot is NOT coming from the baseboard , though. Chances are you have a new house??? Very air tight? fireplace? white walls? new windows?( how did I do at discribing your house?)
It sounds like a classic example of not enough fresh air to the boiler. you're probably pulling air in from either your fireplace or your draft regulator on the boiler.
boilers use lots of air. brings us back to the direct vent argument, huh guys???

[Deleted User]

Baseboard Blues

Probably has nothing to do w/ flue products.

A not uncommon complaint w/ baseboard w/ high temperature water circulating through. Unlike radiators and convectors, the baseboard transfers much of that high temperature to the walls directly above the baseboard. Then as the little woman dusts or vacuums, the heated walls act like a magnet to attract the airborne particles to the walls.

The colder the weather, the longer the hot water circulates, the more dust adheres to the wall. Not pretty, but probably not soot.

Better test for soot is to lift a picture from the wall, in an area away from the baseboard. If there is little, or no difference, in the paint color around and behind the picture, the problem is not soot.

Good luck.

molly

\"little woman\"?