TreeTangler
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Temps finally came out of subzero the other day and got up to 50*F with pouring rain. I let the fire die out so I could clean the stove and replace the door gasket. I hit the switch on the oil fired boiler and she roared to life and started throwing heat from the baseboard in minutes. I listened for a few minutes, everything sounded good so I went to work.
Came home to a house full of smoke and smelling of sulfer and burned fuel oil. Hit the emergency switch and opened some windows and got some fans going. Grabbed my tools and vac and headed down to the basement. Pulled the boiler apart and cleaned it, it was plugged nearly solid. Started it back up and smoked started pouring out of the power vent. I opened the sight hole to see the flame pinging off pieces of the combustion chamber, it had caved in. Worst part is, there's nowhere up here to get parts until Monday morning and this happened Friday night.
This a fairly new weil maclain fullycast iron boiler, I really did not expect this. It has been a horrible winter.
Thanks guys, I needed to vent a little.
TreeTangler
Came home to a house full of smoke and smelling of sulfer and burned fuel oil. Hit the emergency switch and opened some windows and got some fans going. Grabbed my tools and vac and headed down to the basement. Pulled the boiler apart and cleaned it, it was plugged nearly solid. Started it back up and smoked started pouring out of the power vent. I opened the sight hole to see the flame pinging off pieces of the combustion chamber, it had caved in. Worst part is, there's nowhere up here to get parts until Monday morning and this happened Friday night.
This a fairly new weil maclain fullycast iron boiler, I really did not expect this. It has been a horrible winter.
Thanks guys, I needed to vent a little.
TreeTangler