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Slow return in site glass after weekly flush.

hdblackburn
hdblackburn Member Posts: 3
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The first thing I did after the bid I submitted was accepted for an old house with a furnace that looked to be out of a Dr. Seuss story was to buy Dan Holohan's steamy three book deal.

In the ten days of ownership, I have tried to follow the maintence suggestions. There had to be improvizations however after the first $104 was spent on someone who came out to inspect my system. About the only thing he did was to turn the burner on and show me how to flush the low water cut off.

After he left, the site glass started leaking around the areas he was banging to loosen up a lot of slurry that was coming out of the system. It looked like this had been a problem before, I dissassembled it and resealed the packings.

First repair a success, but man was I nervous.

I flushed that valve many time over the last week at his recommendation. The slurry is gone, but the site glass sure filled slowly. That fact ate at me.

Searching High and Low for three days, "We Got Steam Heat!" was located. Dan says to flush ONCE a week, and goes on to say the slow refill on that site tube is dangerous.

Today, our oil service came over while I am at work. They provided an inspection per our servise delivery plan. Efficiency 80%, it was previously rated 70% when the same company did it a few years ago. They told my wife everything was working great. No mention of the danger Dan warns of. No recommendations for cleaning of this neglected system. No nothing.

Okay folks, now I am in a little lurch. Dan says, "danger", and two services have not recognized a dangerous condition.

Anyone got a recommendation for 1) a boilerman in Baltimore (They may call me at 410-790-1289) 2) what I should do in the meantime?

BTW the house is kept cozy by this 2 pipe system, except for 2 radiators in bathrooms not putting out heat. Their traps will have to wait till spring before I can clean them out. (Why can't I clean them on warm days when the boiler is cool?)

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