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Boiler Pressure

Meryldrive
Meryldrive Member Posts: 1
in THE MAIN WALL

Have a very old Bryant couple pilot hot water boiler. I’ve managed to keep it running for decades. I have a pressure problem that releases water as pressure gets too high. I’m retired & can’t afford a new system. Would just like to find a boiler person who could check the unit & do needed repairs. Thx

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  • Jamie Hall
    Jamie Hall Member Posts: 25,993

    Ah… where are you? Have you checked "Find a Contractor" tab above?

    We may know someone…

    In the meantime, odds are that it is either your expansion tank or, if there is one, the pressure reducing feed valve…

    Br. Jamie, osb
    Building superintendent/caretaker, 7200 sq. ft. historic house museum with dependencies in New England
    ethicalpaulmattmia2
  • JUGHNE
    JUGHNE Member Posts: 11,400

    Can you post pictures of boiler and piping….floor to ceiling?

  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 17,710

    @Meryldrive post your city we may know someone who can help.

  • ethicalpaul
    ethicalpaul Member Posts: 7,623

    Waterlogged expansion tank gives no place for expanded (heated) water to go except out the pressure relief valve. My friend had 3 different techs come out to her house, she even said "I think the expansion tank is waterlogged". They tapped on it and said it was fine. This is the old style tank strapped in a floor joist bay above the boiler.

    They made her give her credit card number before they'd even come out, guaranteeing their getting paid, but unfortunately there was no guarantee that they'd leave with her problem fixed.

    It wasn't fine, it was full of 16 gallons of water. She and I drained it and then everything was great again. I probably broke the law by helping her.

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    EdTheHeaterManmattmia2
  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 17,710

    @ethicalpaul

    It's no wonder HOs don't like contractors.

    Paying a price even an exorbitant one can be debated when the job is fixed right.

    Getting scalped by a no nothing company or technician is more like fraud especially when it is a simple problem.

    ethicalpaulRobert_H
  • ethicalpaul
    ethicalpaul Member Posts: 7,623

    I think HOs do want to like them but are scared, with some justification as you describe.

    We all love the good ones. Hell I don’t even care if they make some mistakes, we’re all human.

    I even tried to find her someone from HH but couldn’t. She was down near Wall NJ

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  • EdTheHeaterMan
    EdTheHeaterMan Member Posts: 10,406

    Hey Paul, Call that person on the phone and tell them to dispute the charge on her credit card. The company that charged her card and didn't fix the problem did not earn the cost of the service call they charged to her card. Especially when the customer asked if the expansion tank was the cause of the problem and the company's technician dismissed that being the problem when it actually was the problem.

    Give her my info and I'll help her drafr the complaint to the credit card company.

    Edward Young Retired

    After you make that expensive repair and you still have the same problem, What will you check next?

    Robert_Hethicalpaulmattmia2
  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 17,710

    @EdTheHeaterMan

    Did you go to law school before or after you started your oil career😂😂😂😂? LOL

  • mattmia2
    mattmia2 Member Posts: 12,614
    edited May 3
    https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1854334#Comment_1854334

    oh, credit cards are the easiest things to reverse the charges on

    btw that type of expansion tank is called a compression tank.

  • mattmia2
    mattmia2 Member Posts: 12,614

    Back to the OP's problem. As others mentioned, the expansion or compression tank being waterlogged or failed is the most common problem. The pressure reducing valve or fill valve leaking is the second. There is a 3rd possibility if it also supplies domestic hot water. The coil could be leaking for the domestic hot water if it does.

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