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hi everyone,
i just inherited an old house. it has a gravity heater in it. i was told that you have to manually put water into the boiler so that it travels to all of the radiators in the house. Only i dont know which valve to open. there seems to be only 2 possible valves. when i opened one that was closes to the boiler near the floow water started coming out!!! so then i opened the valve on the pipe that is up against the wall near the boiler. nothing happened when i tried to put in the water. Please please please help me. when i have called people over they have told me that havent ever seen a boiler like this one. i just want to keep the house warm this winter till i can afford to remodel in the spring.

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  • Unknown
    Unknown
    gravity heater

    hi everyone,
    i just inherited an old house. it has a gravity heater in it. i was told that you have to manually put water into the boiler so that it travels to all of the radiators in the house. Only i dont know which valve to open. there seems to be only 2 possible valves. when i opened one that was closes to the boiler near the floow water started coming out!!! so then i opened the valve on the pipe that is up against the wall near the boiler. nothing happened when i tried to put in the water. Please please please help me. when i have called people over they have told me that havent ever seen a boiler like this one. i just want to keep the house warm this winter till i can afford to remodel in the spring.
  • Tim Gardner
    Tim Gardner Member Posts: 183


    I'm a homeowner of an old house. I have a steam "one pipe" heating system which works by gravity. You really need to know what is what, because if you try to run the boiler without water in it you can ruin it or worse. It might even be possible to kill yourself.

    One good way to start would be to get someone who knows what they are doing to explain it to you. I'd try the "find a contractor" feature of this site.

    Once you know what you have, you can read about whatever kind of system you have; I recommend "The Lost Art of Steam Heating" if it is a steam system.

    There's no system that the guys on this forum can't figure out or haven't seen before. If you post pictures, you might even be able to get started that way. But be careful!

    Good luck.
  • Unknown
    Unknown


    thanks tim
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