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Radiator hot water supply

Ghynes440
Ghynes440 Member Posts: 30
in Oil Heating

we just moved into a older home over a month ago and we quickly realized the back of the house (kitchen, bathroom and laundry room) do not get heat. The rest of our radiators heat okay. I think some balancing can be done. But what I found is the kitchen radiator has a supply on top? All the other radiators have a supply on the bottom. This radiators top side gets hot but the bottom is cold.

The kitchen radiator shown must feed the bathroom, doorway and laundry room but none of those supplies get warm at all. The problem is there is NO access underneath. The crawlspace in the basement we can see the one feed going into the stone but nothing coming out. They must have torn up the floor and fed and the piping under there and then put flooring over everything which SUCKS.

Any ideas why the top side is hot but nothing at the bottom? Sludge?

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Comments

  • neilc
    neilc Member Posts: 3,017

    can we see your boiler, and devices, and the piping around it, floor to ceiling,?

    what do you see for pressure? picture there also,

    known to beat dead horses
  • Ghynes440
    Ghynes440 Member Posts: 30
    https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1848777#Comment_1848777

    here are the pictures.

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    It’s hard to tell with the last photo, but that’s the lines that go into the stone and there is no access to them after that. I just noticed if you look above the threaded pipe you’ll see a green copper pipe, I assume that’s the supply that’s feed the said radiator in my first post.

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  • neilc
    neilc Member Posts: 3,017

    when the heat is on, do you hear the water trickling thru the system? thru either the working or non working radiators?

    the tank over your oil tank is your air separation / expansion tank, the way it's piped is not correct, that pipe into the tank must pitch back down to the boiler so air can flow up to that tank, what you have can't work, and air is likely trapped in the system and blocking flow,

    can you post a wide shot from the boiler to that tank showing the connecting pipe ? where does the tank connect to the boiler or the rest of the system piping ?

    known to beat dead horses
  • jesmed1
    jesmed1 Member Posts: 1,225
    edited March 19

    Water pressure is OK.

    If that one green copper pipe is the radiator supply, where does it connect to the other supply pipes coming out of the boiler?

    That pipe looks kind of snaky. If there are any "humps" in it, air may be getting trapped in the hump and preventing circulation.

  • hot_rod
    hot_rod Member Posts: 24,800

    I imagine that radiator will be hot from top to bottom with enough run time, just from conduction.
    Removing the plank on top will allow more heat transfer.

    Unless someone thought it pushes the heat down through the radiator🧐

    On some Flir cameras you can adjust the color bar on the side when you take pics. The bottom of that radiator may be much warmer than the space temperature of 60, maybe a door on the far left? so it is emitting heat. The black color is 60F

    Bob "hot rod" Rohr
    trainer for Caleffi NA
    Living the hydronic dream
  • mattmia2
    mattmia2 Member Posts: 12,200

    Is there a kitchen sink or bathroom above that inaccessible area? the copper kind of looks like it is probably hot and cold potable water.

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