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Losing Water!

Eli Aron
Eli Aron Member Posts: 1
in THE MAIN WALL
Losing gallons a day and I do'nt see any water around the house, where could it be going?(single pipe steam system)

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  • DanHolohan
    DanHolohan Member, Moderator, Administrator Posts: 16,598
    Could be a hole

    inside the boiler. The water will go up the chimney. Check it by flooding the boiler up into the header. If there's a hole, you'll know it within a few minutes.
    Retired and loving it.
  • El Gordo
    El Gordo Member Posts: 1
    Lost water

    Hi! Do you have any main vents or rad vents that hiss all the time? If you do, please replace them. Or you may have a leaking boiler and the steam is leaking on the inside of the flue passages, just above or at the water line. Shut off your boiler and hand fill it until the gage glass is full and a bit beyond. A boiler leak will show up. I hope its just hissing vents.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Could be going up the chimney

    Check to see if theres a white plume of smoke coming out the chimney - you might have a leak on the fire side of the boiler . Other than that - any buried return piping , or vents that let out alot of steam ?
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