I enjoy all your videos. This happened up in the county it was thought too much oil was pumped into the furnace. Who knows cause the dryer oven and hot water was propane.
This video is 3 years old but I was wondering if you could do a video on conversions people have done to run Beckett burners on waste vegetable oil, Beckett also makes one that can run on biodiesel...
this is good machine, beckett was good also for heating with waters and before naturals gaz oils was used for most still this can go with prices and as the oils burners you shows can be connects to house climates controles of any and anothers this the safety that make the machines stops is fragiles to electrics unstables also
👍 I have 50+ yrs as home owner with basic furnace knowledge. I found this very helpful for new owner & appreciate you instructing not to fool with devices, but contact professional. 😷 My interest is understanding home owner servicing occasionally leaky OTP Valve. I turn off main water supply & trigger valve couple times, collecting very dirty water. If that doesn't stop leak, time to call PROFESSIONAL ! 😷
I used this video as a learning resource when I first started in HVAC (In NH like yourself). Now I'm well versed in oil service, in part thanks to you!
I’ve been an HVAC service tech for a little over a month, no formal training. My company is one of the only ones in the area that still services oil. I’ve seen enough gas furnaces and heat pumps to where I’m getting comfortable with them, but a nice, concise overview on oil is well appreciated!
according to Saquan Barkley here how it works with a 460VAC iron fireman unit! a puff of fuel oil, water vapor or air nucleui gets in oscillation with the 23 kv ignition transformer and swings back and forth with the electric field! this taps ZPE which swings them faster and faster! This emits a big gamma ray photon which suprheats metal around it. eventually the nucleuii and electrons speed off and find the motor magnetic field which acts as a gyrotron and that electromagnetic scalar ZPE can be further beamed into the boiler to heat it even more tapping more ZPE, the fuel oil valve can now be shut closed and it keeps on going forever spewing out circular polarized elecrtomagnetic radiation, fuel oil is just an ellusion and is just a start thing to get the burner to get the burner really going! the electromagnetic kickback can even trip the breaker to the burner accelerator
Just bought a home with oil and couldn’t figure out anything. Watched this and followed along and now I have a good understanding of how it works and where the different functions are. Thank you saved me hundreds by not having to call someone out!
Really well done... we have oil-fired forced air furnace but my in-laws have an oil-fired boiler that needs to be replaced and I am helping them select a vendor. This provided great background on the fundamentals. Thank you!
Cool that you have outside air reset. That is a real energy saver. Why make 180 degree water all the time when you might be able to use 90 degree water on a milder day. Guess that you would have to not use that if you have a tankless heater. Looks like you have. Real sanitary installation. I’ve been working on oil fired equipment for almost 50 years, and your video is excellent.
Thanks a lot for putting this video together. It was very well explained and it really gave me a better perspective of what is happening beyond the multiple pipes, valves, etc...which was like a black box for me before your video. Thanks!
Hey Silver Cymbal, I am fully familiar with oil burners and oil furnaces and boilers, but I still like to watch these kinds of teaching videos just to see how the material is being taught. I especially love that you talk about the oil tank gauge because that's a feature on every home heating oil tank but a feature which wouldn't be obvious to the plain and ordinary homeowner because all the gauge is is this little tube sticking up out of the top of the tank; it's controlled by a float inside the tank. It's impressive that you would mention even the smallest details about an oil heat system.
@@yacinebesseghir2235 I would not be able to give you a pat answer unless I knew more about your system. Does it have single zones? Does it have multiple zones? If there are multiple zones, or heating loops, in your house, they should each have a valve on them That's necessary anyway for when the zones are either drained or purged. Because of this, the individual zones also should also have spigots on each of them for that purpose. Check for shutoff valves on your zones --- if you have multiple zones. If you can't turn the radiators off that way, you can reduce radiator heat output by putting blankets or quilts over them. By the way, what kind of radiators do you have? If you have modern baseboard radiators instead of the old-fashioned iron kind, do your radiators have some kind of closers on their tops to stop their convection?
Don't buy a place with oil heat. You will live to regret it. Even electric heat is less costly albeit very expensive. At 21cents per kwh the rate here its like paying 2.09 a gallon of oil. Natural gas is like 89cents a gallon of oil and lp gas is the most expensive 4.09 per gallon of oil equiva
Great job on the video. While I could expand on many of the points you covered simply because of the complexity of a complete hydronic system, I won't because you did a great job covering most of the components. The one critical thing that I will add though has to do with the oil line going from the tank to the burner. Even if your state laws do not require a flexible plastic tube over the oil line, (most of which are soft copper tubing), if the line is buried under the concrete unprotected, and comes into contact with the concrete anywhere on its journey to the burner, a chemical reaction will occur, and the copper line will eventually leak. Because nearly every state has to follow very strict federal or state environmental laws, an oil leak UNDER that concrete could end up contaminating the soil and the homeowner is the one responsible, and it WILL COST you many, many thousands of dollars for environmental clean-up, and in some cases that cost could be as much as the cost of the home! If your oil line does not have a plastic shield, whether under the floor or not, install one as soon as you can because the cost for not doing so will be far greater than the cost of a new copper line. Thank you for your video's.
Thank you very much. This was super helpful. I recently purchased my first home in New England moved from the Caribbean. So I really had no idea what I was looking at. Thank you again.
Thank you for the nice words, having spent the first 20 years of my life in condos and apartments, I always dreamed of having a basement and garage and love to keep them super clean.
This is absolutely perfect for a layman like me. If all videos were like this I think I may just understand a good amount! you would be a great teacher! big up from the UK! : )
Very good point, one secret was that I tried to film the burner through the inspection port, let's just say my endscope camera didn't last long enough for the footage!
Thank you so much for this video. I am, exactly, who you made this video for - a new homeowner with very little understanding about how my oil heating system works. New sub.
This is good info. I watch Tankmasters RUclips channel and they're a bunch of guys in NY state who install/remove oil systems and do environmental remediation for leaking systems and I never understood the whole process of the furnaces. I live in the deep south and we use gas furnaces or heat pumps exclusively down here.
That is a crazy set you people use in the north. Here in Houston, Tx. we just have 1 40 gal. average gas or electric water heater, hot and cold water supply lines and another pipe for the TPR valve and the vent to the attic. My 40 gal gas water heater costs $300 and I install it myself and I only know minor plumbing.
We do have some different setups. Similar to Finland and Germany more so than other parts of the US. It's easy once you are used to it. but a lot of things.
Your video has been a great help in aiding me with identification of the various components of my system and what they do. Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
I really liked this video thank you very much, may God bless you and gives you the health and strength for you make many more great ones in the future.
I bought a Spirit low boy Oil Furnace last year..Love it and it has these newer Beckett AFG Burners..Bullet proof love them and very reliable and easy to maintain..
Glad you found it helpful and thank you for the kind comments. I have many more heating and plumbing videos coming so please subscribe if you haven't already so you can see them. Best wishes to you.
One small error... as your speaking about the circulator pump for the baseboard heating, the return line is that large pipe at the left rear corner of your boiler. The water cannot return to the boiler on the pipes above that circulator pump. It's a one-way flow as with any other plumbing. You'll notice that a line from your indirect water heater tank is also connected to and returning via that pipe around the back. I am a little curious what room or location that line on the far right (above the circulator pump) goes to as it is the only one not insulated and it's location doesn't seem conducive to a good flow unless the control gates (zone valves) to all other locations are closed. It was probably a zone that was added on your system at some point after the original system installation. Very nice system install that you have there. Well done, resilient and clean. Excellent presentation as well.
Good detailed video m8. Still widely used in modern hikes & buildings in UK it’s actually in most cases twice or more economical then heat pump which they are trying to push to confer here in UK. Smooth & quiet night operation.
Brilliant video! I walked me through everything I needed to know to get me started. Now I know why my boiler is "leaking".thanks for sharing; will be checking out the other ones
Such a complicated, complex system. As an 80 year resident of California, for the most part, I’ve had various forms of forced or natural airflow heat, powered by natural gas. The only exception was in the early 70s in Oakland Calif. Steam radiators, not hot water, natural gas fueled. Yes, you’d hear the the pipes knocking and the steam hissing, but after a few minutes, it was silent and heated the apartment. Today we have forced air heat via propane in a 250 gallon tank outside. If I had to,put with that oil heat system, I’d replace it, or MOVE.
Two Thumbs Up !!!!! Great Lecture, Informative, easy to understand, etc ! But I have one Comment..........You have one clean, organized, taken care of system ! Love it ! Now...explain....which pipes you wrapped, and why not the others, and which Joints only you wrapped and why ? Otherwise Great Video, every inch of it ! Now Heater coil plate replacing, that rusts over time...., and tune ups, filter and strainer replacing.......Thank You !
Thank you, very informative video. Mine is a New yorker. I haven't had any real issues with it yet. I believe I will convert to a natural gas boiler once this dies.
Silver Cymbal yr wellcome I watched all your videos I'm heating engineer even though we use different system than the one in U.S. but still learning many principles of components through you. Keep them coming bro. From jordan
Thanks for concise overviw of this heat system. figured i would ask while i am here: What would cause return pipes getting cold not frozen? Preventing baseboard heat from reaching a zone, i suspect slush not solid ice
This is a great video., so what if you push the red bottom and turn the switch, but the flames do not go on and the boiler makes a noise but there is no flame going on ; what then 😊
Great video, I have a house that was built in the 19 30 it's a Old Furnace it has most of the upgrades that you said but my problem is is radiator Heat and the technicians always refer to a gravity field system I have to bleed the radiators my other question is this where does the water come from to feed the furnace I get nothing to the upper floors radiators in fact I have left the radiator valve open for several hours and nothing comes out get back to me thank you and keep the videos going
From the vintage and info you provided it sounds like you have steam heating. Though it's not popular now, it has a huge following. It is often called a gravity system due to how the steam flows through and uses gravity to condense and flow back. Your system gets water from your house plumbing. You should visit www.heatinghelp.com the "wall". They are the best in the business and allow homeowners to post messages asking for help. They also have a network of experts who know steam heating and can help you. Steam is almost like an art now so these guys will really help and probably have you send pictures to give you more info. Let me know how it goes.
Thanks! I’ve never lived in a cold climate in a home large enough to need a boiler. But I recently installed a Taco hot water recirculating pump and got curious after seeing so many RUclips videos about Tacos on boilers. They definitely have more valves and other hardware than I thought! Definitely not very DIY friendly.
Should I be concerned buying a new home with a boiler unit? Are there any issues with home warranties? Do they get expensive to maintain or replace? Thank you for this video, it was very helpful!!!
I'm a retired now but spent years installing and maintaining boilers. You have some useful householder information in this video but frankly you have some crap too. Just to pick up one example the flue stabiliser is intended to maintain a reasonably constant "draw" or draught on the boiler combustion conditions. The combustion should be set up during commissioning by a combination of nozzle size, oil pump delivery pressure and air supply from the fan in the burner. Variations in flue draw would affect the airflow which would cause variation in the combustion mix leading to less than optimum burn efficiency. This is not so critical with a modern pressure jet burner but in the early (now thankfully in the past) oil burners such as vapourising pot and Wallflame type it could really upset the burn and cause sooting and stink. Regular maintenance (annual) is required to keep the boiler efficiency up. This should include cleaning inside the combustion chamber and heat exchanger, cleaning the burner fan blades and airways, check and replace nozzle, clean ignition electrodes and flame detector, check seals on access panels, check and replace oil filters, check firestop valves (the fusible head type you show often stick and are not as reliable as the sensor bulb type) and run the burner to measure combustion efficiency with recording of flue CO2, temperature and draught. I'm also surprised your building standards allow you to have oil tanks inside the house. If a house fire did occur a few hundred gallons of oil (kerosine) in the place would really help it along. In the UK the normal location is outside with regard to clearance from combustible materials and with containment to stop leakage contamination of the surroundings by a bund or a double skinned tank.
Thankiuu ! Btw the oil valve didn't melt inside in case of fire , it's only the handle who melt. That handle is pushing a spring when open , in case of fire when the handle melt , the spring is release , and automaticaly shut down the oil !
Hi, i thought this video was super excellent 👍 I have a similar set up and in NJ. The issue I'm having is my tracometer ? Never goes under 140 so when I turn my heat on it only runs for a little while once a reaches 190 it turned off. It take so long for the heat to come back on that I set my thermostat at 68 but it never gets there. It stops at 63 and 64 and it's been cold these months so I'm trying to figure out why that's happening. I had maintenance done on it back in October and I have about a quarter tank of fuel. All the other parts that you mentioned seem to be working fine. Any advice? Thanks again I appreciate your expertise!
Go with a steel boiler that transfers heat faster and more efficiently- such as Energy Kinetics or a simple New Yorker. My last steel boiler was over 60 years old still going strong.
FYI...the circulator pump is on the return side of the system, it pulls down not push up. Makes sense if you look at the angles of the return plumbing. Nice video though!
nice video ...until 13:45 I was following you, than suddenly I started to lose you at this TACO unit and the sense of confusion deepened when suddenly you went to the transformer, ...I lost track.. will keep watching and see if I can reconnect or try watching it over and see if that helps
My buddy is a commercial hvac guy and hes fitted his parents house with 4 250 gallon oil tanks. He says he just gets them for free sometimes and repaints them
Thank you very much. I have looked at those gauges before and they do look good. But heating things should last a very long time and it will fail at some point and might not be worth the trouble unless your tank is under a crawlspace or really hard to get to.
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I enjoy all your videos. This happened up in the county it was thought too much oil was pumped into the furnace. Who knows cause the dryer oven and hot water was propane.
You could save on oil by increasing you total hot water storage by double.
Thanks. Informative!
This video is 3 years old but I was wondering if you could do a video on conversions people have done to run Beckett burners on waste vegetable oil, Beckett also makes one that can run on biodiesel...
this is good machine, beckett was good also for heating with waters and before naturals gaz oils was used for most still this can go with prices and as the oils burners you shows can be connects to house climates controles of any and anothers this the safety that make the machines stops is fragiles to electrics unstables also
👍 I have 50+ yrs as home owner with basic furnace knowledge.
I found this very helpful for new owner & appreciate you instructing
not to fool with devices, but contact professional. 😷
My interest is understanding home owner servicing occasionally leaky OTP Valve.
I turn off main water supply & trigger valve couple times, collecting very dirty water.
If that doesn't stop leak, time to call PROFESSIONAL ! 😷
I used this video as a learning resource when I first started in HVAC (In NH like yourself). Now I'm well versed in oil service, in part thanks to you!
I’ve been an HVAC service tech for a little over a month, no formal training. My company is one of the only ones in the area that still services oil. I’ve seen enough gas furnaces and heat pumps to where I’m getting comfortable with them, but a nice, concise overview on oil is well appreciated!
according to Saquan Barkley here how it works with a 460VAC iron fireman unit! a puff of fuel oil, water vapor or air nucleui gets in oscillation with the 23 kv ignition transformer and swings back and forth with the electric field! this taps ZPE which swings them faster and faster! This emits a big gamma ray photon which suprheats metal around it. eventually the nucleuii and electrons speed off and find the motor magnetic field which acts as a gyrotron and that electromagnetic scalar ZPE can be further beamed into the boiler to heat it even more tapping more ZPE, the fuel oil valve can now be shut closed and it keeps on going forever spewing out circular polarized elecrtomagnetic radiation, fuel oil is just an ellusion and is just a start thing to get the burner to get the burner really going! the electromagnetic kickback can even trip the breaker to the burner accelerator
saquan barkley noticed both ignition fuses blown and the the 460v primary circuit arc right thru the fuse gap!
I’m considering replacing my 35+ year old boiler myself and this video is a great tutorial on the basics of each part. Thank you!
How did it go
Thank you! Coming from a Gas force hot and Central air to an oil burner, this video is gold!!!
Just bought a home with oil and couldn’t figure out anything. Watched this and followed along and now I have a good understanding of how it works and where the different functions are. Thank you saved me hundreds by not having to call someone out!
Really well done... we have oil-fired forced air furnace but my in-laws have an oil-fired boiler that needs to be replaced and I am helping them select a vendor. This provided great background on the fundamentals. Thank you!
Thank you very much. More heating videos coming up soon too.
Cool that you have outside air reset. That is a real energy saver. Why make 180 degree water all the time when you might be able to use 90 degree water on a milder day. Guess that you would have to not use that if you have a tankless heater. Looks like you have. Real sanitary installation. I’ve been working on oil fired equipment for almost 50 years, and your video is excellent.
Thanks a lot for putting this video together. It was very well explained and it really gave me a better perspective of what is happening beyond the multiple pipes, valves, etc...which was like a black box for me before your video. Thanks!
Glad it helped. Years ago I was the same when looking at the system. It's hard to get anyone to explain it all. Thank you for watching.
Hey Silver Cymbal, I am fully familiar with oil burners and oil furnaces and boilers, but I still like to watch these kinds of teaching videos just to see how the material is being taught. I especially love that you talk about the oil tank gauge because that's a feature on every home heating oil tank but a feature which wouldn't be obvious to the plain and ordinary homeowner because all the gauge is is this little tube sticking up out of the top of the tank; it's controlled by a float inside the tank. It's impressive that you would mention even the smallest details about an oil heat system.
How can we turn some radiators off ? Can we do so from the boiler ?! My radiators don’t have valves ! Thank you
@@yacinebesseghir2235 I would not be able to give you a pat answer unless I knew more about your system. Does it have single zones? Does it have multiple zones? If there are multiple zones, or heating loops, in your house, they should each have a valve on them That's necessary anyway for when the zones are either drained or purged. Because of this, the individual zones also should also have spigots on each of them for that purpose. Check for shutoff valves on your zones --- if you have multiple zones. If you can't turn the radiators off that way, you can reduce radiator heat output by putting blankets or quilts over them. By the way, what kind of radiators do you have? If you have modern baseboard radiators instead of the old-fashioned iron kind, do your radiators have some kind of closers on their tops to stop their convection?
Thank you for the wealth of knowledge, in the process of buying my first home this month. This video was a huge help I have 2 pages of notes lol
Thank you so much I really appreciate the nice comment
Don't buy a place with oil heat. You will live to regret it. Even electric heat is less costly albeit very expensive. At 21cents per kwh the rate here its like paying 2.09 a gallon of oil. Natural gas is like 89cents a gallon of oil and lp gas is the most expensive 4.09 per gallon of oil equiva
Thanks for the video and the time you took to make it. Just purchased a house with fuel oil. Much appreciated video.
Thank you so much for the nice comment and kind words.
This is the best source of info for the oil burner system I have found. Very concisely and detailed information. Thank you!
The greatest, most informative boiler video out..
Great job on the video. While I could expand on many of the points you covered simply because of the complexity of a complete hydronic system, I won't because you did a great job covering most of the components. The one critical thing that I will add though has to do with the oil line going from the tank to the burner. Even if your state laws do not require a flexible plastic tube over the oil line, (most of which are soft copper tubing), if the line is buried under the concrete unprotected, and comes into contact with the concrete anywhere on its journey to the burner, a chemical reaction will occur, and the copper line will eventually leak. Because nearly every state has to follow very strict federal or state environmental laws, an oil leak UNDER that concrete could end up contaminating the soil and the homeowner is the one responsible, and it WILL COST you many, many thousands of dollars for environmental clean-up, and in some cases that cost could be as much as the cost of the home! If your oil line does not have a plastic shield, whether under the floor or not, install one as soon as you can because the cost for not doing so will be far greater than the cost of a new copper line. Thank you for your video's.
Thank you very much. This was super helpful. I recently purchased my first home in New England moved from the Caribbean. So I really had no idea what I was looking at. Thank you again.
AWESOME Video! Very informative and narrated. I don’t know much about boilers but that’s a beautiful set-up!!
Thank you very much. Considering it's almost 20 years old it's held up very well with good maintenance.
Love how clean you have the area. Maintenance must be easy to perform and comfortable
Thank you for the nice words, having spent the first 20 years of my life in condos and apartments, I always dreamed of having a basement and garage and love to keep them super clean.
This is absolutely perfect for a layman like me. If all videos were like this I think I may just understand a good amount! you would be a great teacher! big up from the UK! : )
I really appreciate that, very kind of you. Thanks for watching
as a retired oil burner tech good video remember folks a oil burner flame is a controlled explosion ; D
Very good point, one secret was that I tried to film the burner through the inspection port, let's just say my endscope camera didn't last long enough for the footage!
Thank you so much for this video. I am, exactly, who you made this video for - a new homeowner with very little understanding about how my oil heating system works. New sub.
You are so welcome!
This is good info. I watch Tankmasters RUclips channel and they're a bunch of guys in NY state who install/remove oil systems and do environmental remediation for leaking systems and I never understood the whole process of the furnaces.
I live in the deep south and we use gas furnaces or heat pumps exclusively down here.
Excellent. Thank you. Very simple. I’m trying to find out how to adjust my domestic water temperature. It’s very hot.
The barometric damper is installed to maintain proper draft in the combustion chamber.
Please make more videos. You explain things very well and straight forward.
That is a crazy set you people use in the north. Here in Houston, Tx. we just have 1 40 gal. average gas or electric water heater, hot and cold water supply lines and another pipe for the TPR valve and the vent to the attic. My 40 gal gas water heater costs $300 and I install it myself and I only know minor plumbing.
We do have some different setups. Similar to Finland and Germany more so than other parts of the US. It's easy once you are used to it. but a lot of things.
Your video has been a great help in aiding me with identification of the various components of my system and what they do. Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
I really liked this video thank you very much, may God bless you and gives you the health and strength for you make many more great ones in the future.
I bought a Spirit low boy Oil Furnace last year..Love it and it has these newer Beckett AFG Burners..Bullet proof love them and very reliable and easy to maintain..
Very very helpful!! I had no clue about an oil boiler system
I definitely appreciate it!! Hvac guys were installing new air handler and forgot to turn water valve on to first floor. Ugh it's 10°
Clear video and perfect sound. No background annoying music. Perfect!
Glad you found it helpful and thank you for the kind comments. I have many more heating and plumbing videos coming so please subscribe if you haven't already so you can see them. Best wishes to you.
I wouldn't say perfect. There's a clicking sound at the end of nearly every word that's driving me mad.
Yes thanks. I hate the stupid drama music and ridiculous stuff some do.
This was cool. We don't have boiler systems here but it's fun to learn about them.
One small error... as your speaking about the circulator pump for the baseboard heating, the return line is that large pipe at the left rear corner of your boiler. The water cannot return to the boiler on the pipes above that circulator pump. It's a one-way flow as with any other plumbing. You'll notice that a line from your indirect water heater tank is also connected to and returning via that pipe around the back.
I am a little curious what room or location that line on the far right (above the circulator pump) goes to as it is the only one not insulated and it's location doesn't seem conducive to a good flow unless the control gates (zone valves) to all other locations are closed. It was probably a zone that was added on your system at some point after the original system installation. Very nice system install that you have there. Well done, resilient and clean. Excellent presentation as well.
Good detailed video m8. Still widely used in modern hikes & buildings in UK it’s actually in most cases twice or more economical then heat pump which they are trying to push to confer here in UK. Smooth & quiet night operation.
Brilliant video! I walked me through everything I needed to know to get me started. Now I know why my boiler is "leaking".thanks for sharing; will be checking out the other ones
Excellent. Thank you. Clear. No nonsense. On point. Well done 👍
Thank you so much. You saved my hind with this video.
Such a complicated, complex system. As an 80 year resident of California, for the most part, I’ve had various forms of forced or natural airflow heat, powered by natural gas. The only exception was in the early 70s in Oakland Calif. Steam radiators, not hot water, natural gas fueled. Yes, you’d hear the the pipes knocking and the steam hissing, but after a few minutes, it was silent and heated the apartment. Today we have forced air heat via propane in a 250 gallon tank outside. If I had to,put with that oil heat system, I’d replace it, or MOVE.
Two Thumbs Up !!!!! Great Lecture, Informative, easy to understand, etc ! But I have
one Comment..........You have one clean, organized, taken care of system ! Love it !
Now...explain....which pipes you wrapped, and why not the others, and which Joints only
you wrapped and why ? Otherwise Great Video, every inch of it ! Now Heater coil plate replacing, that rusts over time...., and tune ups, filter and strainer replacing.......Thank You !
Thank you, very informative video. Mine is a New yorker. I haven't had any real issues with it yet. I believe I will convert to a natural gas boiler once this dies.
Thank you so much. It helps me as a student of HVAC/R
@Sliver Cymbal Massachusetts!!! Shout out from NH. Thanks for the great content
I appreciate that, always nice to see some local folks!
I just moved to the far Northeast and this video was so helpful
Thank you so much. I love to make these and nice comments like this make it worthwhile. Best wishes to you
Very informative and clear video/ audio I like it . Thanks bro
Thank you very much for the kind words and for watching!
Silver Cymbal yr wellcome I watched all your videos I'm heating engineer even though we use different system than the one in U.S. but still learning many principles of components through you.
Keep them coming bro.
From jordan
Very clear. Good explained. Well spoken! thx for sharing!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you! Really helped me understand what’s going on with the heating in my new home
and helped me understand what's going with my heating in my old home that I never understood before :)
I absorbed all your info thanks, just changed an air valve
Another great and informative video!
Thanks for the in-depth information
Thanks for concise overviw of this heat system. figured i would ask while i am here: What would cause return pipes getting cold not frozen? Preventing baseboard heat from reaching a zone, i suspect slush not solid ice
Beautiful setup
This is a great video., so what if you push the red bottom and turn the switch, but the flames do not go on and the boiler makes a noise but there is no flame going on ; what then 😊
Really appreciate your video and the information. Very helpful and informative.
Wow excellent video! Very informative and hits all the pertinent data about introductory oil furnaces! Great job!
Awesome video! I just bought my 1st home!!!!! I am subbing to your channel now. Cheers from upstate NY!
Thank you very much for the nice comment. Glad it was helpful.
Thanks for the video. Trying to understand my new home better and this is the best video I've seen. I will ask: Economical compared to what?
Love the way this guy says Taco.
Thank you sooooo much, very educational, I have subscribed, & wish you the best.
Great video, I have a house that was built in the 19 30 it's a Old Furnace it has most of the upgrades that you said but my problem is is radiator Heat and the technicians always refer to a gravity field system I have to bleed the radiators my other question is this where does the water come from to feed the furnace I get nothing to the upper floors radiators in fact I have left the radiator valve open for several hours and nothing comes out get back to me thank you and keep the videos going
From the vintage and info you provided it sounds like you have steam heating. Though it's not popular now, it has a huge following. It is often called a gravity system due to how the steam flows through and uses gravity to condense and flow back. Your system gets water from your house plumbing. You should visit www.heatinghelp.com the "wall". They are the best in the business and allow homeowners to post messages asking for help. They also have a network of experts who know steam heating and can help you. Steam is almost like an art now so these guys will really help and probably have you send pictures to give you more info. Let me know how it goes.
This video is great!!!
Thanks! I’ve never lived in a cold climate in a home large enough to need a boiler. But I recently installed a Taco hot water recirculating pump and got curious after seeing so many RUclips videos about Tacos on boilers. They definitely have more valves and other hardware than I thought! Definitely not very DIY friendly.
Thats a sexy boiler. I love how organized it is
Thank you!
Should I be concerned buying a new home with a boiler unit? Are there any issues with home warranties? Do they get expensive to maintain or replace? Thank you for this video, it was very helpful!!!
That was a very well done video !
Hello, thank you for your video. Yes, any chance do you can make a video and how to regulate the hot water temperature please.👍👍👍👍
I'm a retired now but spent years installing and maintaining boilers. You have some useful householder information in this video but frankly you have some crap too. Just to pick up one example the flue stabiliser is intended to maintain a reasonably constant "draw" or draught on the boiler combustion conditions. The combustion should be set up during commissioning by a combination of nozzle size, oil pump delivery pressure and air supply from the fan in the burner. Variations in flue draw would affect the airflow which would cause variation in the combustion mix leading to less than optimum burn efficiency. This is not so critical with a modern pressure jet burner but in the early (now thankfully in the past) oil burners such as vapourising pot and Wallflame type it could really upset the burn and cause sooting and stink.
Regular maintenance (annual) is required to keep the boiler efficiency up. This should include cleaning inside the combustion chamber and heat exchanger, cleaning the burner fan blades and airways, check and replace nozzle, clean ignition electrodes and flame detector, check seals on access panels, check and replace oil filters, check firestop valves (the fusible head type you show often stick and are not as reliable as the sensor bulb type) and run the burner to measure combustion efficiency with recording of flue CO2, temperature and draught. I'm also surprised your building standards allow you to have oil tanks inside the house. If a house fire did occur a few hundred gallons of oil (kerosine) in the place would really help it along. In the UK the normal location is outside with regard to clearance from combustible materials and with containment to stop leakage contamination of the surroundings by a bund or a double skinned tank.
Great video
I’m definitely new to hot water oil heat ..
Thankiuu ! Btw the oil valve didn't melt inside in case of fire , it's only the handle who melt. That handle is pushing a spring when open , in case of fire when the handle melt , the spring is release , and automaticaly shut down the oil !
Thanks so much for this! Very helpful
Glad you liked it thank you for the nice comment too
Thank you for making this video. I learned so much!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for a great video.
Awesome video, thank you!
And Thank you for your VERY helpful Video!!!
Hi, i thought this video was super excellent 👍
I have a similar set up and in NJ. The issue I'm having is my tracometer ? Never goes under 140 so when I turn my heat on it only runs for a little while once a reaches 190 it turned off. It take so long for the heat to come back on that I set my thermostat at 68 but it never gets there. It stops at 63 and 64 and it's been cold these months so I'm trying to figure out why that's happening.
I had maintenance done on it back in October and I have about a quarter tank of fuel. All the other parts that you mentioned seem to be working fine. Any advice? Thanks again I appreciate your expertise!
Great video, I learned a lot.
My oil system works fine during the day but at night stop working, what can it be ?
It's sleeping.
Smart man. Good work
Thank you
Go with a steel boiler that transfers heat faster and more efficiently- such as Energy Kinetics or a simple New Yorker. My last steel boiler was over 60 years old still going strong.
very helpful and educational!! Thank you very much
Great video! Very informative!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Who did your piping as a master plumber I got to say that's that's beautiful
Amazing, clear and exactly what I wanted
Very informative video. Thank you.
You are welcome!
Very clear and helpful!! Thank you!!
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
FYI...the circulator pump is on the return side of the system, it pulls down not push up. Makes sense if you look at the angles of the return plumbing. Nice video though!
Sludge at the bottom of the tank is not affected by having a low oil level.
The oil is always taken from somewhere close to the bottom.
very interesting
As shown in the footage, the pipe before the oil filter is at the very bottom so sludge is no issue at all here.
Great job on the video, thank you!
Very nice video, thanks!
Thank you sir!!! Great Video!!!!
Glad it was helpful!
nice video ...until 13:45 I was following you, than suddenly I started to lose you at this TACO unit and the sense of confusion deepened when suddenly you went to the transformer, ...I lost track.. will keep watching and see if I can reconnect or try watching it over and see if that helps
Thanks I learned a lot.
Thank you for sharing this.
My buddy is a commercial hvac guy and hes fitted his parents house with 4 250 gallon oil tanks. He says he just gets them for free sometimes and repaints them
Great vid, by the way, very informative
Great informative video - I learnt a lot of things! Your set up is so organized! What’s your opinion on WiFi oil gauges? Go Pats!!
Thank you very much. I have looked at those gauges before and they do look good. But heating things should last a very long time and it will fail at some point and might not be worth the trouble unless your tank is under a crawlspace or really hard to get to.
That was helpful. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you for the kind comment I appreciate it
This was awesome! Very informative..thx!
I have a peerless boiler just like that. Painting with a broad brush, what would you say they cost to run per hour? Good video.