The Joys of Having a Boiler

Today I learned how to flush the boiler! Our home has three systems or loops that use water for heating. Two are for steam heat and one is for hot water heat. This is a complicated procedure and Tony has written four pages of instructions that are explicit.

It took an hour but was quite easy, just time consuming. This has to be done four times a year and you need to add chemical to the boiler to keep it functioning well. Whatever we did, did not work for the boiler keeps flooding and the steam heat does not seem to be working correctly this evening. Thank goodness we have a heat wave, it is all of 23 degrees so we will survive. We ran out of chemical and the hot water lines still seem to have air in them so Tony is putzing with them to get the air out of the lines. I hope he is successful, it is nice to have heat in Wisconsin in the winter. We really need some additional research and a new tank for the water system, this dual system still needs tweaking.