Boy Im thinking I must be cursed or something.
I fixed my air leak problem which was causing my stove to over-heat and boil out the water. Everything has been working just fine until Thanksgiving.
Now, I have hardly any warm heat. My fan stays on my furnace all the time just trying to get my inside temperature in my house up to 70 degrees. My stove use to run us out of the house. I live in a big log cabin that is well insulated.
Here is what I noticed: The bottom of my heat exchanger where the hot water comes in is very hot, but the radiator and the lines coming out of the top of my heat exchanger are luke warm at best. IF I turn off my furnace fan, the top lines and radiator start getting hot again but the minute my fan turns on, it gets luke quick. I also have NO hot water in my house without turning on my hot water heater. The exchanger to my hot water heater has the same deal - incoming lines are too hot to touch, outgoing you can lick with your bare tongue.
The head of maintenance where I work thought maybe I had a calcium buildup that plugged up my line somehow, but I have 3/4 inch copper and 3/4 inch pex lines everywhere.
I have not put in any boiler treatment this season because I ran out from filling it up because it boiled out so often. Would that make any difference? I cranked my stove temp up to 180 thinking that I would see if it would help, but to no avail. I am at my wits end with this one other than starting to replace exchangers and then lines, but this is only my 3rd year with my stove running. I can't imagine that I would need to do either. I took great care with my pex lines when I installed them. I put them inside that black corrugated pipe with lots of insulation and was careful when covering them back up. I checked my stove's water and opened up the drain valves, etc...
Any clues on any of this beyond what I have tried??
Thanks for any advice.