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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: New homeowner, new owb owner, need advice!

« on: September 10, 2013, 05:57:00 AM »

Thanks for the reply man, I live in Brooklyn, Connecticut. So if there is a hole in the chimney that is deffinately an air leak problem? So that's where I would start repairing this thing. I filled it with water yesterday and it was deffinately low. I purchased some cb rust inhibitor online and a ph test kit.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: New homeowner, new owb owner, need advice!

« on: September 09, 2013, 04:08:51 PM »

So I got home today and I discovered an air leak. It's on the back of the furnace the, 90 degree angle, where the chimney meets the furnace there is a hole rotted away the size of 3 quarters. As I understand the system has to be airtight, so it doesn't overheat. I don't know how I'm going to fix this, i wonder if this piece is made out of cast iron. Mabey I can try and weld it. Btw it is a cl4436 I can't seem to find any info online about it. There is no owners manual with it.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / New homeowner, new owb owner, need advice!

« on: September 09, 2013, 01:45:15 PM »

So my girlfriend and I bought our first home this past may. It came with a central boiler 4200?(I can get the exact model when I get home) what the heck is the maintenance on this thing? The home inspector said "keep her filled with water" that's it. So I checked the water level, it was in the acceptable range. Well I fired it up last Friday. Saturday morning it was at 200 degrees, (too hot?) I don't even know how to adjust it. Anyways it kept the house heated Saturday night. (Radiant heat). And on Sunday I checked the water level, and nothing. No water came up into the tube. So I shut her down raked the ashes out. And let her cool off. I'm thinking all of the water evaporated out over the weekend, the whole time it was on ove the weekend there was steam coming out of the vent ontop.