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Steve I love all your very videos very educational every day is something new I just became a plumbers helper after I retiring from the New York City Department of sanitation and I have been learning a lot with this gentleman that has his own business like you it is amazing how you learn things every day and I talk to him about you all the time and I believe he started following you also he’s been in business for about 14 years he just put a new boiler water storage tank in my house what a difference anyway thanks and keep up the good work eventually I’ll get my plumber‘s license I have a mentor but you have been my mentor thank you and keep up the good work.
Nice job Steve. You can see the difference with how well she’s breathing now. When you open the port to check draft, your not getting blasted in the face with hot air and smoke anymore! I think his relief valve was dripping. A job for another day.
Buddy, you're a truly professional I can say..I just stumbled over you as I had some funky heating phone call that a hot wate boiler suddenly stopped working ..and outdoor temperatures were ( still are!) well bellow -10C..As I went there I had to deal with an honeywell aquastat L8148E, with vent damper connection but the intermittent spark module got fluctuating 24V to B1-B2 burner contact of the L8148E..had 25v for 2 minutes then all of sudden it was flickering down to 19V upa nd down..the transformer had a good steady 24v output to K1 relay and through B-R high limit of the L8148E but when reached B1, it eas flickering!
I know i'm late to this video. But, Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience. I've learned alot watching you in a short time, then all my years. Especially, when it comes to regular maintenance.
Draft over fire is so important and so often overlooked. Good to see you take it seriously. We haven’t switched to the low sulfur fuel up here in NH, still a lot of sludgey filters strainers and having to blow out oil lines and treating tanks. Can’t wait for the cleaner fuel.
We tried Beckett ultra guard additive for a few years, mixed 1/2 gallon to 2000 gallons at the truck, similar result, filters like new, less oil supply problems, less night/weekend calls.
If you install an additional filter right at the tank, you will never have to blow out the entire oil line, but you may have to blow a small amount of sludge back into the tank.
It just goes to show you your not ripping people off by putting filters and all the addons! Thats why you have us fans! Keep um coming Momma! Hiya Molly!
Thank you Steven! BTW I admit I pushed the button 10 times once. I got a stern lesson on not to do that ever again. My guy replaced the transformer and then said watch! It filled my cellar with smoke lol.
We need many ,many more Lavimoniere 's in the USA ! My boiler has been turned off here in Upstate NY in NOVEMBER since 8am today and it's 10pm now and there is NO ONE to call ! Had to get 7 propane heaters and tanks for this emergency situation
Hi. I love that New England / Massachusettes scenery in winter. I've been interested in furnaces, boilers, and heating systems since I was a kid. Your videos are quite interesting and informative. And I agree, why change the filters if they don't need to be changed.
Steven just a note from the U. K. We have to use double skin plastic tanks with the outlet two inches up on the side to stop all the crud blocking every thing up. Never seen a oil tank inside all ours are outside.
Most tanks around here are indoors to keep the fuel from turning to gel when it gets really cold out. We have plastic lined Roth tanks here too, which have the oil drawn from a line that goes in from the top. They are considerably more money, so most stick with the standard bare steel tank.
Great video, learned a lot and successfully serviced my furnace today... Good thing I did too, I was tracking a soot problem and found my chimney nearly completely plugged. So between my mom and wife complaining and your video, a dangerous situation was averted... I still got to replace the nozzle but it's a lot better than it was... Thanks!
Filter flow is not linear with regards to trapped particulates. If the filter is 70% clogged, there won't be much reduction in flow. By the time the burner locks out, the filter is 100% plugged.
I'm cleaning up the mess from a cleaning four days ago and I am not near finished. Looking for ways to get the best results to clean up soot all over everything, even the cat!
My dad was the same way a good flow no need to change filter. .your right in the 50s and 60s 70s dirty oil..dif today..im retierd..boiler guy.from chicago..my dad was the same. But a heating co..50 s 60 s 70 80s..
Changing the filters all depends on what you charged for that service call. But great work getting him going......I would have also put screws in the vent pipe (not sure if you did) and changed the pump/tank filter.
My two cents...The fact you check oil flow and it is good shows the oil tank and the supplier is good too so unless they change who they buy oil from the situation probably won't change. Love your series.
As soon as I established aquastat L8148E trsnsformer was good, I simply put a wire from R contact of the BR high limit and installed onto spark ignition module! DONE!
I work most of my jobs on gas fired appliances and dual fuel combustion appliances ( NG and oil), as hospitals have, power backup oil fired generators.
Stevie Boy got him a RU-vid fan ... You ain't gonna go all Hollywood on us are ya , driving with them 20" Chrome rims on the Lav Mobile and a hair stylist for Miss Molly riding to each job ... Just don't forget us little people ... Lol ... Good vid as usual ...
So I search the web to see if similar conditions setvice techs encountered and saw an interesting site heating wall where a technician says he had tons of exact heating calls due to loose wires on B1-B2 contacts! But to take the controller apart and solder would've been for me big hussle as house was getting colder and colder by the hour..
Miss Molly sure is getting her long coat. It takes up to 3 years in some cases for them to get a full coat. I know that the old guy didn't put all that soot in there with just 3 resets.
Do you clean the fire chamber as well if cleaning the soot from the top doesn't work and soot is still blowing out? I ask because i have the same exact boiler and if i showed you pictures you would say Oh mama! Lol... but I'm having issues with soot blowing out
Steve the Monday morning quarterbacks second guess you, lol I like your style. I worked on large oil and gas fired boilers 75,000 lbs/hour, had five of them and I see you are doing a great service, it's called Skill.
Steve, love the videos. Quick question. When the furnace first starts, and the transformer sends the spark, does the spark stop once the CAD cell recognizes flame? My oil furnace short cycles. It has been cleaned, new oil filter, nozzle, transformer, and it still does the same thing. I thought the “arc” stops, once the flame is recognized. I’m thinking it’s my thermostat or the controller on the furnace. Thank you.
Steve, I was a HVAC technician years ago and only spent a few months with an oil service company. What I do remember was many of the tanks being old had accumulations of sludge in the bottom of the tank which I guess may contribute to filters becoming clogged or dirty. We did have a policy of changing the filters and nozzles on yearly cleanings. I was wondering if the newer fuels effect the sludge present in the tanks, that is with the detergents and low sulfer, will it effect sludge deposits already present there?
I've been servicing oil burners for 15 years you need to change the oil filter every time as a good rule of thumb a 2 to $5 expense will save you a call back with dirty filters no one ever gets them serviced every year it seems like they always like to get their money's worth out of you I think it's time HVAC text started getting our money's worth out of the customer
Nice job lets me asking somethings do you put a bridge wires or make short with something I can't see what's wires do you bridges or short why do you use that please can explain me ?
I know this is a boiler and not a Common rail diesel but for the price and the time it takes to change the filter I think it’s just worth doing regardless - because as you know filters can disintegrate and cause issues further down the line
Oh man!!! Good Job and good listener LOL Bad marriage person that needs to be eared!!! Those kind of clients that wont make you feel guilty to over charge them, OBNOXIOUS!!!!!!!!!
OMG that's why I work on machines LOL they don't conversation... Im a mechanic that likes to get in do some Good stuff perfect as I could make it.. leave with a smile to the customer...bang out as many calls as I can to help people with no heat
I agree Steve. Friggin know it alls. Yuppie type. Filters last a long time. Plus its a home owner deal. Who the hell calls out a licenced plumber to change their oil filter? Its called maintenance people.
boiler work is going to the dogs and trying to cat--up in cold weather...Mmmm thanks a lot...:) great stuff and the smart guy goes for cleaner air to breath...*v*
If it aint broke don't fix it. good to see the cleaning of the boiler, and I never knew about the baffles . I work on natural gas boilers and furnaces.
You mentioned in this video when you measured overfire draft that 1"wc suffice..but you had measured at boiler inspection window..shouldn't be measured at the inlet of barometric damper instead? Or that location would give you same reading?
That's a totally different measurement, the heat exchanger which he ran the brush through is a restriction before the exhaust, so he's making sure there's enough draft in the firebox, not after the heat exchanger in the chimney pipe, that draft should be .02
Steve I love all the videos. Our 40 year old Ford Oil burner went. The man who we use to repair it wants to install a Crown, what do you suggest. Please respond. Thanks.
you should change all filters while your there to prevent future probblems its not all about job security when you go back to charge the customer next time do it right the first time
HVAC student here ... on the filter issue .. I guess I'll just defer to what the supervisor says. I'm hearing that introducing percentages of biofuel into an old system will clog things up good. Too many variables with this customer playing with things, calling a different tech.
@@1fasteddie64 , not really because it was adjusted through the damper which equals the same thing as the dampers inside the boiler box ! It's not a big deal
It would be a good idea to seal the breach plate with gasket material. The top of the boiler vessel and the breach plate don't necessarily make a complete seal, therefore, air pulled in at the gaps can affect the co2 reading by making it inaccurate.
@@frankdinaro3220 its also creates a seal preventing dilution air before the regulator producing more accurate combustion analysis. I think this guy is an amateur doing what he has seen and been told in the past, not what he has researched and learned for himself. Too many dampers wtf?! Clearly doesn't understand as he makes up his own theories. Too much back pressure! Lol haaaaacccckkkkkk. Nate certified oil and hydronics.
