This is not a wood fired boiler, but I am asking for help as I think we have a problem....was hoping my fellow burners could shed some light.
Boiler kicked on this morning for the heat, and just seemed to run on and on and on....went downstairs to check it out, and the temp was reading 270 degrees, and the pressure was reading 30 psi. (Burnham boiler, forced hot water)
Was thinking that this was not normal, so I shut off the furnace....just didn't want the thing to keep running and had a very quesy feeling.
There are 2 guages on the boiler....temp goes from 0 - 320 and the pressure goes from 0 to 75.
There is a little red arrow on the pressure gauge and seems to be set at 25, so the pressure was over the red mark...was about 30 or 31 when I shut it off. I have lived here 6 years and don't think it has ever been over the red marker.
Also, last night before going to bed and doing the dishes, the water seemed to be very very hot...was coming out of the tap around 160 or so....so I turned the mixing valve on the boiler. This mornings its about 140.
Again, sorry this is not a wood fired furnace....just tough on a Sun morning at 5:30am and wanted to get some help before the furnace blows up as I am afraid to turn it back on if its not going to shut off.
Edit: Just noticed a few drops of oil on the floor next to the boiler. Looks to be an open copper pipe on the side of the boiler that runs vertically then makes a 90 to the top of the boiler at what looks to be a pressure valve of some sort.
Boiler kicked on this morning for the heat, and just seemed to run on and on and on....went downstairs to check it out, and the temp was reading 270 degrees, and the pressure was reading 30 psi. (Burnham boiler, forced hot water)
Was thinking that this was not normal, so I shut off the furnace....just didn't want the thing to keep running and had a very quesy feeling.
There are 2 guages on the boiler....temp goes from 0 - 320 and the pressure goes from 0 to 75.
There is a little red arrow on the pressure gauge and seems to be set at 25, so the pressure was over the red mark...was about 30 or 31 when I shut it off. I have lived here 6 years and don't think it has ever been over the red marker.
Also, last night before going to bed and doing the dishes, the water seemed to be very very hot...was coming out of the tap around 160 or so....so I turned the mixing valve on the boiler. This mornings its about 140.
Again, sorry this is not a wood fired furnace....just tough on a Sun morning at 5:30am and wanted to get some help before the furnace blows up as I am afraid to turn it back on if its not going to shut off.
Edit: Just noticed a few drops of oil on the floor next to the boiler. Looks to be an open copper pipe on the side of the boiler that runs vertically then makes a 90 to the top of the boiler at what looks to be a pressure valve of some sort.