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Plumbing / Re: New home old custom boiler has leaks need help

« on: January 21, 2013, 03:45:52 AM »

Well I'm sure there's already a large amount of rust in there corrosion was the reason the old copper pipes failed I'm curiouse if I could just add antifreeze would fix the corrosion problem and I wouldn't have to drain it every time I'm not running it

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Plumbing / Re: New home old custom boiler has leaks need help

« on: January 20, 2013, 06:48:18 PM »

Well that sucks. Your right it is pressuriZed. Soo what type of additive would i need to find a way to add? Can I pour it in the expansion tank and screw it back on? How fast will this corrosion happen? Thanks again the existing crack and rust is not on the water jacket it's at the rear of the burn chamber

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Plumbing / Re: New home old custom boiler has leaks need help

« on: January 20, 2013, 05:38:14 PM »

Lol didn't see the second page things are so tiny on this iPhone I don't believed its pressurized i don't understand the concept but this is my first and the only own I've has and it's an antique there's no place to add an additive the water is off of my well pump I turn a valve and it fills and I bleed the system other than that the pump circulates the water at 20psi it's also the household water pressure seems to stay at 175f as long as the pump keeps going this is a very primitive model compared to the ones I've seen online the dampener /air flap? Is opened and closed by a level with a dial on it it's at 40 now one side of the chain was off I put it back on I don't think it works right now maybe I got the length wrong? Soo it wouldn't be pressurized would it? It needs a lot of work but at least it works now has a rust crack in the back soon to be a hole i will have to weld in a plate of steel on a nice day

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Plumbing / Re: New home old custom boiler has leaks need help

« on: January 20, 2013, 05:04:27 PM »

Just wanted to say thanks again got the pex lines installed had to run a pipe because I could get the old ones out of the steel pipe so ran PVC with heat tape for when they freeze and pour in fireproof insulation I had layying around I ran regular white sharkbite pex 180f at 100psi because I couldn't find the 200f stuff had to fiddle with the wireing in the pump alot gave me a scare stopped working temps went passed 250f got it back on pex and shark it's held up fine even at 250-300f my psi never goes over 20 no leaks or changes i was very surprised but thanks again guys

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Plumbing / Re: New home old custom boiler has leaks need help

« on: January 18, 2013, 08:13:12 PM »

Never mind common sense kicked in air bleeder valve anyone know if its okay to wore up my pump on a switch instead on the thermostat box? It's a taco 007 model

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Plumbing / Re: New home old custom boiler has leaks need help

« on: January 18, 2013, 07:58:20 PM »

Worked good with reg pex and shark bite but then the pump wouldn't work with the thermostat box so I wired it to a plug and plugged it in I noticed it was getting hot so I unplugged it only to notice the 21- with wind chill had frozen my new pex solid inside the new pipe I ran because I couldn't get old pipes out of the steel pipe then since there was no water moving in or out of the boiler she went well over 250f and I blew a steam valve off the copper pipe attached to the boiler probably needed to be replaced anyways but what a pita any tips on what to do now by the way what is this thing I'm calling a steam valve lol looks like a small canister with a valve stem but hey now I know my psi doesn't go over 30 so the pex is all good thanks again

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Plumbing / Re: Pex pipping and Home Depot 180f okay?

« on: January 17, 2013, 03:02:07 PM »

I'm running new pipes to and from my outdoor wood boiler 50ft from my home

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Plumbing / Pex pipping and Home Depot 180f okay?

« on: January 17, 2013, 02:58:31 PM »

Went to Home Depot an hour and a half away told them exactly what I needed somehow they managed to give me shark bite pex that says 100psi at180f instead of the 100psi at 200f I asked for is this alright? Can I still use it? I'm not sure hot this is going to run. Thanks again

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Electronics / Re: New to owb new house how to tell if I need a new cartridge pump

« on: January 16, 2013, 09:08:33 PM »

Hooked it up directly didn't work right away your right I think it was frozen up because ten minutes later it started humming away I'm hopeing in the morning the thermostat will make it work when I wire it back up I have a digital thermostat I want to wire up to it. Now would it hurt to wire this up with a plug to hook it up to my generator instead of wireing it directly? If the thermostat box is bad can i just put a switch on it? Thanks for all the help guys

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Electronics / New to owb new house how to tell if I need a new cartridge pump

« on: January 16, 2013, 07:19:41 PM »

My wife and I just got a new home well new to us in northern Maine built in 1890 came with a old custom outdoor wood boiler for a heat source didn't work when we moved in so I installed a woodstove has leaks in the pipes from the boiler and house I'm fixing that with some pec after advise from nice people on the forum I've fired it up and it runs nice but hasn't been run in a year or two the problem I'm haveing now is with the thermostat box and pump I noticed it was unwired and the expansion tank was off the pump is a taco 007 model I wired the thermistat box to a extension cord turned up the thermostat and plugged it in the pump doesn't make any noise or vibration does this mean I have an. Issue ? If so can I hook the plug too the pump direct to see if the pump is bad or the box? Thanks again

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Plumbing / Re: New home old custom boiler has leaks need help

« on: January 16, 2013, 04:28:34 PM »

Okay thank you so much I was worried it would melt the pex or the seals in the shark bite I'm not sure if its 1" pipe though looks smaller is there a special type of pex I should use? So much cheaper to run 50ft of pex both ways to the boiler and house than copper not to mention not having to sweat pipe every ten feet

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Plumbing / New home old custom boiler has leaks need help

« on: January 16, 2013, 02:58:28 PM »

My wife and I purchased a home in northern Maine built in 1890 the home has an old custom made wood boiler to heat the home other than that it has a woodstove the boiler runs fine but it has several leaks in the old copper pipes running to and from the home one underneath the boiler the system has one expansion tank and a taco cartridge circulator that when I plug it in makes no noise not sure if its suppose to or not the water is fed from my well pump but back to the leaks this boiler is huge and I was wondering if I could run pex to and from the boiler and could I use shark bite connectors or am I stuck buying a lot of copper pipe this is a big job because the pipes to and from the house are in a steel pipe one end through the foundation the other into the concrete house built around the boiler what are my options? Thanks for any help this is my first wood boiler the po told me you could load it up and it would burn through the night into the next day and heat the entire house sorry about the typos I'm on a iPhone there's no Internet here