Your videos are great I've been watching you for years. What do you think is the best high vent regulator to use on most 2 zone oil furnaces? I have the taco and I hear those aren't too great. I was hoping to get your opinion as I'm having that replaced and want a good one. I'm on well water and hard water causes me to fix normal wear items. I also use a whole house sediment filtration system to keep sediment out. As always thanks for your videos.
This video helped me change my hissing and leaking high vent on my boiler. Thank You!! But the gauge is saying 3psi now vs the 10psi before. Weird. Edit: Feeder was stuck. All good. Gauge holding at 20psi now vs 12 before.
Jleone leone For hot water, domestic hot water coil and they also have indirect water heaters that are zoned into the boilers. The wonderful world of oil heat!
Note that Steven didn't actually say that the boiler was fired, the system was merely under pressure. Most homeowners just turn their boiler off seasonally without draining the system.
He mentioned in the video, the customer has an electric hot water heater. He's simply fixing problems with the heat that were found when he was closing, and opening the place for the season.
I live in a basement suite, and its cold down here in the mornings and 80 degrees outside in the afternoons. I turn the furnace on for about 20 min to take the chill out of the air. Its gets cold at night.
So if the hy-vent was leaking, as a temporary fix to stop it,why not just tighten down the vent cap until u can replace it? Sure you are not going to get air bleeding but likely no air in the system to begin with. Also that airscope needs around 18 inches of straight piping to its inlet to be fully effective,so this setup not doing a great job eliminating air working hy-vent or not.
Hello, I am trying to figure out why the hot water is not circulating in my baseboard. The boiler is working fine and heating the water above 180 degrees. I have bled the baseboard elements, water is coming out of the bleeder valves. I have also changed the water pump. It seems that the hot water stops at the Taco air scoop, just above the boiler. Any suggestions as to where the problem may be? One more thing I noticed is that when I tried to fill the system through there was no water coming out of the drain valve on the return pipe while the shut off valve to the boiler was closed. The drain valve is above the boiler shut off valve.
Hey Steve I am a maintenance Man and I have learned a lot from your videos.You are a true inspiration. Thanks So Much.
I am learning a lot from your videos thank you for your time to do these informative videos
I've learned a lot about hot water heat watching your videos
Quick change HV.Good one ,Steve
Your videos are great I've been watching you for years. What do you think is the best high vent regulator to use on most 2 zone oil furnaces? I have the taco and I hear those aren't too great. I was hoping to get your opinion as I'm having that replaced and want a good one. I'm on well water and hard water causes me to fix normal wear items. I also use a whole house sediment filtration system to keep sediment out. As always thanks for your videos.
Careful tightening air vents with channelocks. You can make the float inside it stick and then you have a useless new air vent.
2nd time this week I had to get your help. You da man Steve!!
I enjoy watching all of your videos! They are very entertaining and I've learned a ton! What do you do with the dog when you're working on a job?
Hi, I have to replace the same valve, do I use teflon tape with dope?
Good job Steve
Is that a taco 400
This video helped me change my hissing and leaking high vent on my boiler. Thank You!! But the gauge is saying 3psi now vs the 10psi before. Weird. Edit: Feeder was stuck. All good. Gauge holding at 20psi now vs 12 before.
How much water pressure was there when you did this? Thanks.
Why would the heat be running in summer???
Jleone leone For hot water, domestic hot water coil and they also have indirect water heaters that are zoned into the boilers. The wonderful world of oil heat!
Daniel Rivera oh ok yeah I've heard of the before thanks
Note that Steven didn't actually say that the boiler was fired, the system was merely under pressure. Most homeowners just turn their boiler off seasonally without draining the system.
He mentioned in the video, the customer has an electric hot water heater. He's simply fixing problems with the heat that were found when he was closing, and opening the place for the season.
I live in a basement suite, and its cold down here in the mornings and 80 degrees outside in the afternoons. I turn the furnace on for about 20 min to take the chill out of the air. Its gets cold at night.
what type of wrench were you using at 4:05?
Looks like channelocks to me. Not sure what brand.
Just curious do you do you have air-conditioning in your truck?
Or do you just choose to not use it.
So if the hy-vent was leaking, as a temporary fix to stop it,why not just tighten down the vent cap until u can replace it? Sure you are not going to get air bleeding but likely no air in the system to begin with. Also that airscope needs around 18 inches of straight piping to its inlet to be fully effective,so this setup not doing a great job eliminating air working hy-vent or not.
Hello, I am trying to figure out why the hot water is not circulating in my baseboard. The boiler is working fine and heating the water above 180 degrees. I have bled the baseboard elements, water is coming out of the bleeder valves. I have also changed the water pump. It seems that the hot water stops at the Taco air scoop, just above the boiler. Any suggestions as to where the problem may be? One more thing I noticed is that when I tried to fill the system through there was no water coming out of the drain valve on the return pipe while the shut off valve to the boiler was closed. The drain valve is above the boiler shut off valve.
By the way, the circulators are on the return leg.
No tape b4 the dope?
No
Yeah Mamah!
Steve, easy one !! Thanks !!
Couldn't tell from the video, but doesn't this thing require OSV?
Paul Dziomba Blue loom covering the line, so no, it's protected.
Hi Steve! I’m a big fan of yours
Quick question, why you had antifreeze on this boiler? I don’t understand never seen a boiler with antifreeze
Also helps if power is lost during real cold weather for a lengthy period and there is no generator.
Downside to anti freeze is it eats seals. Upside is it does help prevent corrosion.
I have seen it crust around the caps of those high vents.
“Cobweb city” lol
She's a leaker mama!
Cobweb city down here Lol!
you have to drain any water out before replacing that air vent i have to replace my too but,, not sure how to replace mine i need some help
Lol. The dayafter the 4th of July