Forum Archive: Posts by: iranyc

Here’s a photo of my boiler. The pipe that’s putting water on the floor is the left-most one, with the green tag. it runs down in front of the boiler and empties onto the floor. Water is still coming out intermittently.

As a boiler ignoramus, i don’t know if this is a problem or not: this morning there is a small amount of water coming from a pipe that runs down from the top of the boiler nearly to the floor and is not capped. The floor was wet so i put a bucket to catch the water, but is this a problem that needs to be fixed or a normal adjustment that the boiler is making? the pipe doesn’t lead to anything, so it looks like it’s meant to be an exhaust of some sort. PS, our radiators are hot water, not steam.

It’s our first winter in our Park Slope one-family and when the weather got cold enough for the boiler to get cranking, we began hearing a brief accelerating/decelerating dripping noise in the ceiling of our bedroom every time the heat goes on. Lasts maybe 30 seconds and happens every couple of hours. There are two connected radiators directly above the noise, but no visible signs of a leak. I assume it could be in the wall or in the floor, but could the sound be from something else entirely? i bled all the radiators, which seem full of water, not air. The risers are on the opposite wall from the sound.