Many Thanks, Noisy (very Noisy) steam baseboard.

John Lasky

good morning everyone.

First of all many thanks to all you gents that give help on
this board, this site has helped me solve a ton of problems
on my steam system.

being an electrician by trade (in sales now , industrial Controls) and having lots of tools, I can do the piping sweating etc, and electrical anything is no problem it was just not knowing what to do!! Thanks to Dan / you folks the mission is pretty much acomplished.

my problems were MANY, water hammer from hell(whole system), one half of my upstairs (one pipe) not working (flooded horizontal runout, installed drip) , cheap vents (now have gorton), no main vents(gorton), oversized boiler(de rated), preasure switch too high a rating(changed) and some other small problems.

Im happy to say all is solved with the exception of my last months gas bill was way to much $$ (this month will tell me if I made a difference ).

but with all this said I have one stange occurance.


my downstairs is all 2 pipe steam baseboards (burnham base rays)
the front half of the house has 3 seperate baseboards (2 pipe) each are vented
and drops right into a wet return.

the back side of my house has 2 baseboards in seperate rooms
that are vented but are tied into a 15'dry return that drop into a wet return .

ALL the baseboards are very quiet except for the one in the den.

the den baseboard is the second horizontal runout from the boiler, it also is the slowest to heat and it gurgles the whole time the boiler is on, it does get hot.

the return drops below the floor and then into a insulated dry return that runs for 15' then drops into the wet return just in front of the hartford loop.

one thing I did notice was the return pipe just under the floor is never hot only warm, the baseboard above is very HOT but NOISY and slow to heat.

could this baseboard just be codensing fast as its the back corner of house??

Also the first 18" or so of piping that feeds this baseboard also gurgles.

again the other baseboard that has a dry return that drops into a wet is very quiet and heats up just fine. any wisdom will be welcome.



PS: I like this heating stuff! you guys, have a nice advatage , you dont have to pull anything though your pipes when your done!


many thanks "John"