Okay will do, thanks!lzaharis wrote: ↑Wed. Jan. 16, 2019 10:33 am==============================================================================================
Good Morning,
I am glad I saw this before I headed out to do chores. You need to make sure the water fill valve is shut off as it has obviously been left open.
You have a B+G Airtrol valve.
After you shut the water fill valve off you need to do is shut the valve off that is on the copper pipe going to the airtrol valve in the steel compression tank. Then you use a 5/16 box wrench to drain the excess water from the steel compression tank and your circulators will work correctly. Just let the water drain out until you have air coming from the tank and then close the drain.
After that you can open the valve to the tank and then turn the circulators on to allow the water to travel through the system and the system will come into balance and you will have the proper point of no pressure change which is the steel compression tank.
1. Shut the water fill valve off to the boiler
2. open the drain valve in the airtrol valve in the steel compression tank
3. let the water drain out until you have no more water draining from the steel compression tank. By this time your steel compression tank will have the correct 1/3 air 2/3 water ratio to create the point of no pressure change to allow your circulators to work correctly.
4. shut the drain vent off with the wrench. Just a 1/4 turn past snug is enough as the system operates at 12-18 PSIG
5. open the valve in the copper pipe that allows water to enter the airtrol valve.
Your circulators should work fine after this work is done and you will have heat in the home.
You will have to go around and open the air vents in the first floor radiators and if there is no air in the water stop.
Go to the second floor and repeat the process and then on to the third floor to repeat the process be sure to not overtighten the air vents.
Once you have checked the radiators for any air you should have plenty of heat in the home.
I have to do chores and I will check back in several hours.
We did bleed the radiators after we moved in and found that there was a bit of air, and then we checked them all again when we reconnected the third floor radiators to the heating system.
None of the radiators have air in them anymore. Every single radiator currently is hot to the touch, however overnight the third floor radiators get luke warm.
Worse comes to worse I already have a plumbing and heating guy coming friday morning to take a look at our tenants (apartment above our detached garage) hot water tank. We did have an inspection/service of the heating systems done, (we also have a propane fireplace, three electric base boards, tenants fuel furnace) a little over a month ago before we moved in to make sure everything was "safe," however the inspector did mention when he first fired the 260 up for us that he wasn't knowledgeable on the boiler in entirety and recommended finding a "specialist" and calling axeman.
If we were really feeling froggy we could actually reconnect and heat the garage and apartment with our heating system (there's pipes run under our driveway) but one problem at a time.
We're not having too much of a problem with actual heat, (other than the other day when the belt let loose in the middle of the night, thankfully I have a low temp alarm set on my indoor thermometer), but more of a consumption problem with nothing being set accurately. The temperature never fluctuates in the house, pretty much always 70 on the first floor, 75 on the second and 70 on the third, it is definitely a very poorly insulated house.
The parents 1900 house has similar "cubbies" behind the attic knee walls that supported the roof rafters. They insulated the rad pipes that ran in that space because the roof and outside walls were not insulated there. Your pipe fittings in the pic below look like they were done recently from the bright white tape or dope.
