new boiler install

Jerry_15

I know it sounds wierd but copper into cast or black iron on a closed loop system is a standard and I've never seen a problem over many years. The only pipe that causes fits is galvanized. I don't care for dialectrics myself, having seen what's left of them after just a few years. Wouldn't surprise me to see them outlawed someday. Give me a brass nipple anytime off the top of that water heater. Clean as a whistle 20 years later. The drain into the floor is another matter, unless your house is built on sand. You might need a small condensate pump and reservoir to get it to a real drain, or out to the street. Good luck.

JIMBO_2

Brand-new boiler install

I have a few questions I cannot rightly answer myself. We had a new Weil-Mclain CGi-3 installed in our basement and the condensate drain from the exhaust seems odd. The installer drilled a hole in the basement floor, inserted a piece of 3/4 copper tube into it and stuck the clear plastic tube from the drain tube tee into it. Does this seem correct? (I can't help but wonder what could happen if ground water builds up and comes up to flood the basement.)

Secondly, I would have expected them to put a dielectric nipple between the copper tubing and the circulator pump's iron flange, rather than just screwing them together. I figured water/different metals & electricity would require protection. Am I over protective? I just had to ask . . . . The job was done in Neptune, New Jersey, and it's been a nightmare that's lasted 4 months, start to finish. Yes, 4 months.

David Sutton_6

Hello.

there should be a condestate pump to remove the water, as far as the male adapter on the flange as along as its seal properly you ok..David

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