to drip or not to drip?

thfurnitureguy_4

John, I have no experiance with the Baseray but do you have to pitch the rad to the 2nd pipe side? I know with radiators that are noisey I add a 1/4 shim to the legs to speed up the run back. Just a thought. Hope it helps.

John Lasky

should I install a drip line?

hello gents,

its getting closer to firing up time for the steam system in my primary residence. I fixed a ton of problems last year with all of your help.

I have one more thing im pondering and Im wondering if there would be enough benifit in doing the project?

my system is 2 pipe steam baseboard downstairs ,1 pipe rads up.

all the runouts go to a wet return except the feed for 3 rads on the second floor (right side of house).

all the rads on this feed heat fine but I suspect the condensate from these 3 rads is whats causing water in a 7' baseboard in a den downstairs as water heads back to boiler through the main it passes the runout for the one noisy (the only gurgling ) baseboard.

I installed a drip just in front of this den baseboard as I did see dropletts in steam and that has taken care of the gurgling for 90% of the time and the baseboard heats fine now .

the only issue is when its wicked cold out and the boiler is running very long cycles this one baseboard will gurgle after about 50 min + run time < im thinking the 3/4" drip (burnham baseray) cant get rid of the water when the boiler is working real hard.

again the baseboard heats fine but only gets noisy when the boiler is cycling a long time. most of the time its quiet . before I added the drip it was gurgleing loud all the time and not heating all the way across.

to put a drip on this one pipe riser? that I mentioned will entail cutting and threading in place, union , T, drop, then run clear across the cellar to pick up the wet return near the floor, a pain in the butt job but If I have to Ill get it done.

your thoughts please,

many thanks and happy heating (though gas bills will be mucho $$$$$ this year (OUCH!!!)

"John"

Steamhead (in transit)

Can't hurt to drip it

as long as the drip goes below the waterline before connecting to the wet return. Don't try to piggyback this drip onto another one.