Just a quick up date. Today is the three anniversary since I started the Garn back up after the last leak repair. We had another pretty mild winter other than two week in January. Burned about 10 cords again last year and plan on burning threw the summer again for domestic hot water. I hope everyone has a enjoyable and safe summer.
Garn Leaking water again.
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Good luck Martin, I let my boiler go out over the weekend, since we were up at the in-laws and my folks went down to my sisters, now big deal there, still had decent hot water yesterday afternoon, just not as scorching as my wife likes for her bath, she had to settle for a shower, I fired it up again last night about 630, storage was at 117, by 10 when I went to bed it was up to 150, I was pretty happy with that!
Every thing with the Garn had been good until today. Have folks coming in from out of state to stay with us so I thought I better fire the Garn up and bring the temp in the tank up so I had plenty of domestic hot water. Opened the door on the Garn barn to find water on the floor. It is leaking out the air intake pipe in the back. I will let the temp pull down some more and then pump the water out of it and try to figure out what weld failed this time. Hope its fixable. Didn't need to have issues with it. Better now than in the middle of winter.
Time for a update and time to close this thread out. Drained the Garn , dried it out and scraped it down real good and vacuum it out. Cut a inspection hole in the left side of the Garn to get a good look at the fire box on that side. Opened the air collar by the loading door up to inspect that area. The Garn has a lot of issues. The welding on the air collar is all broken loose. The blower box needs more plating put on it. The whole front needs to be cut off and lots of new metal put it. Will start next week to remove it from the Garn barn. Most of the enclosure its in will have to come down to remove it. I am probably not going to try to rebuild it and install it again. Cost of a proper rebuild of it will be too much and not doing a complete rebuild would be like the last two repairs. It will be fine till you have another leak in another area. I installed it in the summer of 2009 and started it up in Nov 09 and had two major repairs to get to July 2024. I have thirty grand in the whole system and now its time to do something else for heat. Back running my twenty one year old direct vent propane water heater for my domestic water. Wish I would have bought that Switzer boiler back in 2009.
Well, I haven’t found any leaks in the Switzer, so that part is better. I haven’t started it for the year yet. I’m going to do a bit of volunteer work in Georgia all of next week (tree clean up after Helene), but maybe the week after I’ll get to firing it.
Be safe and have a good trip. Those folks have had a bad time. Makes my boiler issues look like nothing.
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