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Low boiler drain

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Robert_H
Robert_H Member Posts: 273
in Strictly Steam

This boiler drain is about an inch off the floor. There is no sump in the basement or any place to drain in the basement and the floor is about 5 ft below grade. I can't really just drain it on the floor because there's a lot of stuff stored in the basement although it's a pretty beat up concrete floor lot of it's dirt at this point.

I can't really get a pan under there with any size. I was thinkingI was thinking of draining into a shallow pan and using some type of scavenger pump or something.

I'm certain I'm not the first person to deal with this

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so I'll take any recommendations.

Thanks!

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  • ethicalpaul
    ethicalpaul Member Posts: 8,462

    Hook a short length of garden hose or a washing machine supply hose to it and into a bucket

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  • Jamie Hall
    Jamie Hall Member Posts: 27,060

    looks suspiciously like a hose bibb thread on that… so hook a hose to it as @ethicalpaul said. And if you need to get the water somewhere else, hook a longer hose on it and maybe even a little pump, such as might be hooked into a drill…

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  • Long Beach Ed
    Long Beach Ed Member Posts: 1,826

    If you are concerned with staining that antique flooring, you can drain into a shallow pan with a shop vac running, sucking the pan dry.

    Won't even ask about that PEX…

    Robert_H
  • 109A_5
    109A_5 Member Posts: 3,724
    edited February 1

    " Low boiler drain "

    The boiler drain would be on the boiler. That drain (in the picture) is to flush junk out of the short wet return. If the boiler's water level is above the Hartford loop the water and junk should drain into a low pan. If you want to flush it further put the connected hose into a bucket, as long as the boiler's water level is higher than the bucket and the Hartford loop water will flow.

    Looks like the Blue PEX may be boiler water feed, so every time you add water to the boiler some of the rust and junk in the wet return may be pushed into the boiler.

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  • Robert_H
    Robert_H Member Posts: 273
    https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1885677#Comment_1885677

    OMG they had pex shark bit to the hot water coil adapters. Fortunately the young man that owns it trusts me and lets me do whatever I tell him needs to be done. I choose my battles but I'm chipping away at it.

  • Robert_H
    Robert_H Member Posts: 273
    https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1885681#Comment_1885681

    oh, that makes sense, I can just push the water level back up above the bucket level with the water feed. "ding" light bulb on.

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