Can this be true?

Tom M.

We have a customer who is an old woman, she has trouble with stairs so she has a neighbor "check" her boiler for her periodically. We have delivered oil to her for a few years and have done annual cleanings which include draining and testing the LWCO. Never found anything out of the ordinary. I went there the other day because her neighbor had to use the reset button. Electrode had come loose inside the pocelain- no big deal. But here's the wierd part: the neighbor came down (the first time I'd met him) and he wasn't draining and testing the LWCO and didn't even know how to put water in. This is an old Ideal steam boiler, two vent-rite #35 main vents, big rads upstairs with really old vents (the ones that look almost cone shaped). The glass guage was clean as a whistle, the water was down about 2 1/2" from the mark on it and the LWCO was clean and functioning as it always was when we cleaned it. Can a system this old really lose this little water through a winter like this? I'll give you the fact that the boiler is huge and that 2 1/2" is probably several gallons and that the neighbor wasn't draining, but it was a cold long winter and she keeps it 75* in there all day long. What do you think?

J.C.A.

Sounds like.....

The "Dead Men" did their job wonderfully !

Do your self a favor though, check in on this "customer" every once in a while , and make sure things are being taken care of properly . Having dealt with LOTS of these fine types , it makes for ,#1 a very satisfied customer , and # 2 a tech. who can sleep at night knowing that the "customer" is safe . JMHO. Chris.

P.S. If it ain't broke....don't fix it !