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01-14-2012, 08:38 PM #1
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Leaking steam pipe
Found this beauty a couple of weeks ago on a No Heat call. Leaking main return on a steam boiler. Water was pouring out of it. Needless to say, it was shut down.
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01-15-2012, 09:36 AM #2
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those make life easy
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01-15-2012, 09:58 AM #3
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More work needed to fix..........
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01-15-2012, 11:02 AM #4
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01-15-2012, 11:04 AM #5
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Ha!...It does look like it has barnacles all over it.
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01-15-2012, 05:46 PM #6
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My home's boiler main return looked like that, decommissioned it after many more internal leaks were found (the unit was MANY decades old).
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01-15-2012, 11:11 PM #7
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At least it is above the floor where it can be noticed, not that it was for a long period of time. I wonder how much unnecessary damage was done to the system due to this excess of feed water. Yet another reason for water meters on the make-up water line and at the very minimum bi-weekly checks on residential steam boilers.
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