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Hydrotherm

lchmb
lchmb Member Posts: 2,997
in THE MAIN WALL
Having spent the better part of 4 hour's today beating my head against the side of a Hydrotherm boiler that has been severly abused, does anyone know of a better way to dig one out? I ended up punching it with a 3/8th threaded rod and alot of brush's...I had the thought of pulling it of the stand and power washing it but I have five banked together (and yes the other four are plugged) and no shutoff's between the five...

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  • jim murtaugh
    jim murtaugh Member Posts: 72
    psi wash

    just did this last week also hydrotherms broke dowm natural gas burners and controls bought two cheap wet vac's and pressure washed them in place. charged cust. for the vacs and left them w/ them had to replace inspection doors and roll out limits that were jumped out. good luck it was pretty messy.
  • oil-2-4-6-gas
    oil-2-4-6-gas Member Posts: 641
    no hose on oil boiler

    do NOT use a hose or any water on the Hydrotherm oil boilers unless you have some spare target board on hand you will destroy the firebox --which is only a pre-formed box of Kaowool --
  • lchmb
    lchmb Member Posts: 2,997
    as it stands

    Of the ten boiler's I have to replace 3 firebox's complete and 3 chamber's. And the scary part is these have been "serviced" since they were installed 10 year's ago. Oh well, I'll keep punching...:(
  • jim murtaugh
    jim murtaugh Member Posts: 72
    sorry

    sorry about the bad advise iam in chigo 99% of what i work on is nat. gas mabee worked on three oil boilers in the last 13 years although i installed a waste oil crown last year for a oil change place complete w/ snow melt
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