Where do I dump the condensate for a 90% boiler with no drain?

Weezbo

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Gasper

Where do I dump the condensate for a 90% boiler (no close drain)

I recently built a unattached garage with in-floor heat. I did not put in a drain. I would like to put in a high efficency boiler such as a Triangle Tube or a Lochinvar Knight. Does anyone know how much condensate will be produced on a very cold day in Michigan?

Ernie

Condensate

If you have a blueberry patch nearby it will grow gaint size berries,they like acidic conditiions.

Dave Yates (GrandPAH)_3

pump & dump

You can collect it and carry it back to a suitable drain once it's neutralized or install a small condensate pump to discharge it outdoors, but you'll need to heat-trace and insulate the discharge line where it's subject to freezing and creating an ice plug.

One thing I've seen (too often), and I'm not in favor of doing this: gravity drain to the exterior (which will surely freeze shut) with a slightly elevated "overflow" drilled through the floor to allow condensate to run off into the stone base under the concrete. The overflow side eventually clogs below the floor with a substance that best resembles snot. At that point in time, you'll be back to square one.

You'll generate approximately 1-gallon of condensate for every 100K-Btu's burned.

hr

Depends on the temperature

of the return to the boiler. Easily 3-5 gallons a day in heating season for a small mod con.

It ends up outside no matter where you put it! Neutalized and down a floor drain, or pumped outside.

Keep in mind you will have large chunk of ice if you run it outside on the ground, not unlike gutter discharges.

Maybe a small gravel lined soak away pit. Itwould neautralize and allow it into the ground below frost level.

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Kal Row

lime coated decorative marble chips...

go to you local HOME-DEsPOT or sLOWES , and get yourself a 5 gal bucket with two pvc 3/4" by thread adapters, a bag of those white lime coated decorative marble chips,
and a condensate pump

drill a hole in the bottom of the bucket and another about near the top, and screw in the threaded adapters, uses PVC primer and glue at the last few threads to seal it,

run the condensate pump's line into the bottom of the bucket and thence out the top into a house drain as the PH level will now be in the range where it wont hurt your house drains

once a year recharge the bucked with a few cupfuls of garden lime (apx $3 for huge bag at same stores)

the neutralizer that Lochinvar sells for the knight - is $65 and is nothing more than a tube fill with same chips

if you want you can run the boiler directly to the bottom of the bucket, but then the hole at the top must be no higher then the boiler's discharge port - the advantage is that the condensate pump is now dealing with neutralized water - the disadvantage: less chips and will need to be recharge twice a year

Long Beach Ed

EAsy...

Take the claw end of a claw hammer and bash a hole in the basement floor.

Put the drain line in the hole!