Rodrigo Infante
New Member
HI,
I might be in the wrong forum but anyway I decided to give it a shot, I recently bought a house with an existing gas boiler for a two floor system (two different apartments), I noticed as soon as I moved in (summer time) that the water level at the glass tub was always raising up, there was a broken valve, done deal.
Further on the road I noticed that the boiler will go on as soon as heat is requested from thermostat, then it will go on for a decent period of time, this will allow for the second floor to get radiators hot for as long as the system is on( I have it scheduled with thermostat), but after that nice period of time the glass tub that marks the water level will show almost no water in tank and the system will stop working until the water comes back to the proper level where it will go on again, let's say after 4 to 5 mins, when the system starts working again it will do it for about two minutes then water level goes down enough to turn the unit off, this cycle will be repeated for as long as the thermostat asks for heat, the problem is that the radiators on the first floor are getting no heat at all, or if it does it will be after more than 3 hrs of the system going on and off and it is weak, or it won't be hot at all.
I have a feeling that there might be air in the system which I am planning to verify tonight, if this is not the problem, any ideas?, maybe more information is needed to answer this?. Thanks in advance.
Rodrigo Infante
I might be in the wrong forum but anyway I decided to give it a shot, I recently bought a house with an existing gas boiler for a two floor system (two different apartments), I noticed as soon as I moved in (summer time) that the water level at the glass tub was always raising up, there was a broken valve, done deal.
Further on the road I noticed that the boiler will go on as soon as heat is requested from thermostat, then it will go on for a decent period of time, this will allow for the second floor to get radiators hot for as long as the system is on( I have it scheduled with thermostat), but after that nice period of time the glass tub that marks the water level will show almost no water in tank and the system will stop working until the water comes back to the proper level where it will go on again, let's say after 4 to 5 mins, when the system starts working again it will do it for about two minutes then water level goes down enough to turn the unit off, this cycle will be repeated for as long as the thermostat asks for heat, the problem is that the radiators on the first floor are getting no heat at all, or if it does it will be after more than 3 hrs of the system going on and off and it is weak, or it won't be hot at all.
I have a feeling that there might be air in the system which I am planning to verify tonight, if this is not the problem, any ideas?, maybe more information is needed to answer this?. Thanks in advance.
Rodrigo Infante