Blowing down steam boilers...

Josh M._2

Forgive me but I am strictly an industrial boiler tech. In our industry you must do a bottom blow and a surface blow down as needed to eliminate all TDS. I helped a friend change out his residential steam boiler the other day and found 6 inches of mud in the base. If this were the case in a large boiler the operator would be taken out back and shot. Do you residential guys teach the home owner about bottom and surface blow? Just curious. Also do you guys do any kind of water treatment to reduce damage i.e. priming or carryover?

don_59

the operator....

> Forgive me but I am strictly an industrial boiler

> tech. In our industry you must do a bottom blow

> and a surface blow down as needed to eliminate

> all TDS. I helped a friend change out his

> residential steam boiler the other day and found

> 6 inches of mud in the base. If this were the

> case in a large boiler the operator would be

> taken out back and shot. Do you residential guys

> teach the home owner about bottom and surface

> blow? Just curious. Also do you guys do any kind

> of water treatment to reduce damage i.e. priming

> or carryover?

Weezbo

its good to hear....

the truth straight from the horses mouth from time to time..The highest accident rate on the job producing accidental deaths is "Boiler Operators"...Welcome to the land of the belivers.... Great to have you stop by...safety is one of the very real reasons to have boilers serviced on a regular maint schedule...not on a oh God!ITS .>>!...! Help! and everyone runs around reacting off things....Having some what over sized pipe right at thereturn attachment to the boiler with a "T" and valve allows some chance of getting a cleaning rod through there to clean the muck out Before it hits the Boiler...

Boilerpro_3

I do

Unfortunatley, I'm often the first. Many boilers I see have no bottom blow down valves (just a little boiler drain)and even less likely to have skim valves. I have seen more than a few homeowners that had never even been told to blowdown thier float low water cut offs.....YIKES!

Boilerpro

Mad Dog

We do to

Yeah that is real bad. Most residential boilers are not installled with even a heel tee to flush returns...let alone a nice valve on the Hartford loop....forget about King valves, which allows the only true blowdown. I do encourage homeowners top maintain. Mad Dog

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