Internal Pipe Corrosion near boiler fill valve.

[wyro]

I was trying to purge the air out of my boiler and noticed that the fill valve was working really slow even with the valve turned on. I went to replace it and found the real reason.

Any idea what would cause this???

I've cleaned from the one way valve to the ball valve and no solution... I guess I'll have to keep going on the other side of the valve but i didn't want to drain the boiler in February.

 

[Reach4]

Any idea what would cause this???

Are you putting hard water into your boiler?

 

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[wyro]

It's not hard but it did used to be brown fairly often prior to them replacing the water mains last summer.

 

[Kreemoweet]

Why is non-galvanized steel pipe being used there? That stuff will rust out almost immediately.

 

[wyro]

That's the was PSE&G (Local Utility) installed it... It's only 4 years old! I'll replace with Gavanized when i change it.

 

[wyro]

I've already had to change the water circulating pump and now the fill valve. Maybe i should test the hardness of the water here. Soap foams fine so I never worried about it.