 not leaking now but I mean you come over here and look at this nightmare of wiring and you look at this rat's nest this is ridiculous nothing's labeled you got insulation missing wire just twisted together I mean this is just how it hasn't shorted out it's beyond me this is jumps from in switch in switch it's that broke off soon as I moved it and I'm redoing this crap because this is just ridiculous this video is brought to you in part by true tech tools quality tools essential support all right guys we got us a boiler here that's residential let's go see what's going on hi there how's it going it said the boiler went out on you yeah now the upstairs uh-huh if I click it it comes seems to click and it'll come on but this one here it's like the zones are the temperatures came up because we've got here's right okay got you yeah because it was down to 59 yeah they're a little bit of warmth in the radiator but yeah a little bit okay I see what you got yeah so if we look here there's a rubber gasket right there and that should be up tight to that and it's not it's leaking exhaust fumes in there yeah and that's causing moisture in here which is causing all this other nasty corrosion and stuff in here which can cause some issues which ain't probably why it wasn't running but definitely ain't right don't know why it sunk down like that or if it was like it from the factory or what but you can feel the hot gas yeah so we got that apart rubber gasket supposed to fit tight against this piece if it's down in there which it's got a little bit of a connection there we need to pick up a new seal or we can silicone it one of the other till we get the seal so that's the rubber that goes down in there it fits but it ain't as tight as it should be then I just go on down in the hole I'll put some silicone around it for now I've had helicopters and so I went ahead clean this igniter it needs replaced it looks horrible this up here I get some silicone just encompassing that it's not leaking now but I mean you come over here and look at this nightmare of wiring and you look at this rats nest this is ridiculous nothing's labeled you got insulation missing wire just twisted together I mean this is just how it hasn't shorted out it's beyond me this is jumps from the end switch in switch it's that broke off soon as I moved it and I'm redoing this crap because this is just ridiculous and what's bad is you don't know if this is the problem or any of the other 15 problems because I mean this is what tells the boiler to run is these in switches thermostats get powered by them they just send a signal over to boiler to run then circular pumps and stuff run off of the call for the heat and then it's own valves open to let the water through these are your thermostats this here yeah see you got one terminal missing on that middle one I don't even know what the valve controls yeah that just broke off that's great so that's probably half of that problem there it just literally broke right off this has got to be the first floor because they used green and red I don't know why people don't use crimp connectors yeah like that's loose jeez what a joke I do not show anything in history that we've been here before not this location it's kind of hard not to fix all these problems and not obviously show that there's some problems especially when somebody was out here December which could have been another company I'm pretty sure it was it's the transformer coming in I mean look at this wiring how do you feel so that's a good job let's get rid of this garbage just get rid of it you know when it's too short together the boiler should come on and there goes the boiler and see whoever skimmed this or strips these wires you can see they they they cut into the wiring on that all right we got this all unwired got this garbage out of here and just got to finish re doing this wiring here the 24 volts stays on the outside terminal to thermostat fits on the second third one kind of like that right there and then the end switch is just go to the boiler any of one of them closes and it sends power to the boiler over there it's not rocket science it's just obviously for some people now we won't connect both terminals just yet because we don't want it to short out where we're wearing it up okay get a little bit of this out let's even clean this up I think these do a lot better job connecting to the terminals than the wires themselves normally is are not good for solid core wire but they'll be all right it's a lot better than that garbage they did so go and get these end switches done first that's a lot more secure than the garbage that I just seen a minute ago I'm just going with the crimp-ons I think they're better and you can see why these only thing I don't like about these they do not strip thermostat wire that's why you're seeing me use it sometimes without the teeth so I got this done we got this all up and redone so you get the it's it still looks like hell but it's crimped in there you've got the transformer coming in on green and blue so blue is one side of it going to the thermostat and coming back and attaching there so your coil is over here and the other ones right here but you're making your junction on a dummy terminal off to the right right now if we close one of these valves like this it should get gone well no because thermostat wiring hooked up yet let's look up this last one here there goes the boiler so that one there's calling you can see there's no resistance there this one here's calling no resistance there and that one there's calling with no resistance there that was not happening before we only had like one or two that was calling so they weren't very good connections but yeah if they're all to the open position and the end switches should all be closed so it come in here with our meter we can verify that and check across each circuit closed and then technically they're in parallel but whatever yeah they've got air in this thing obviously you can hear hear it I don't feel any hot air leaking out which is good the seal was there just slightly a little bit of a gap so that little silver silicone actually sealed it now the gap that's between the rubber and the metal that's not such a big deal because the piece that's right there actually goes deep down into it and so we're good on that now you've got one bleed here and you got an auto or a spiral vent here which is open so you would think that this would get the air out that are just super high velocity yeah we're cranking some we're cranking some now and there's their fill valve which they put a anti-siphon there pressures a little low or barely 10 we're watching for a minute see what it goes up to you who knows if they got the tank set up right look at the garden who's over here it's always a bad sign they left that hooked up no real good reason for that you can see they ran it over there so they've tried power bleeding it was what they was fairly trying to do which is where you force the boiler the water through the boiler and up to it stop and then like a garden hose up to it bleed it all out stop it go to the next section do it on and on from what I'm seeing here's your valve see valve it off here pressurize it the water goes wherever it's got to go and it's going to come down through eventually pushing it back to here it the saint really the greatest way of doing it that's probably why they didn't get all the air out of it because that's in parallel I think I'll do is I may just go around to some of the radiators and bleed it might be the easiest way to do it just add a little fast fill there and it already brought it up to about 12 and a half so I'm gonna adjust that screw just a turn or so see where that puts us out so it's be set for 12 generally this close lock that up start seeing if our valves are coming back hot because what we got here is this pump here feel which way it is that's sucking it in there so it's coming out through here that's why they're coming to the vent going out to all the different piping arrangements wherever they are which looks like it goes to that big pipe there and then eventually it must split and you're stopping flow coming back each one of them is coming back hot now we got a little bit of a rattle here on this because the strap broke so I'm gonna get that away from that so it doesn't rattle cause of the guy to call back in actually why are tying keeping that away from it would work good it's not the way I'd rather to see it but at this point I'm gonna get the system running before we go jumping and getting parts and going stupid on stuff it's generic but it'll work you would think we'd be getting some hissing out of this thing or not getting crap I wonder if they even cleaned any of this out I bet they didn't they just reused it but you can tell they did some major surgery what they really did from what I'm seeing looks like they mainly just added a fill valve a new anti-siphon and possibly a ball valve over there there's so much going on here with this I'm gonna jeesh I don't want to touch it get blamed for a bunch of I mean you can see them there's there's yeah I mean look so yeah that's something we can always come back and quote because I feel the feeling we're gonna you're gonna dig in you're gonna dig in all right so what we're doing is where we added a valve here found it off there open it up there so it comes in hits the boiler comes out of the boiler hits that ball valve it has no other place to go that odd on that supply as it goes out through the house it comes back and hits these zone valves I'm opening up one zone valve at a time and since that's partially plugged there when I quit seeing bubbles I know that I've got it all out of there and then I switch over to the other one I let go of it it goes shut and then you open up the next one and you start bleeding that one and that's gonna force all the air through the system for the most part and what I found out was the spiral vent is actually bad so I'm getting a price on that which looks like it's now leaking which is great just what I wanted so yeah we're just basically bleeding out each individual section that way I've done a video on this before just called power bleeding is what we always called it and long as everything's in series it works great if it's in parallel then it's a lot more difficult for it to work but that's what I'm doing because all the bleeders I went up there went through room by room that I could get to which was quite a few I couldn't that you know several didn't work then the ones that didn't work was the ones that I couldn't get into so you can only do so much in this right here is the best way if it works if the piping set up before that and I'm not seeing anything air wise out of that one so we'll let that one shut come back to this middle one so I'm pretty sure the middle one here is the one that had most of the air in it and then we'll do the other one closest to me which is right there and that should hopefully I mean it was getting warm yep see there was a little bubble there you go just pull that over and lock it you can see the water coming through and it's cold so that means we're pushed all the hot water out but by having it in there like that you can see if there's any air bubbles coming through I think when whoever did this work a month or two ago probably got all the air in the system so let's go ahead and close that one and we'll go ahead and open this one see if we get anything on that one yep there we go don't you heard something seeing see the little air bubbles there I'm hearing something else coming yeah you can hear it making funny noises now I got one at a time if you open up more than one at a time it won't work but up there's more so like I said just comes into one header goes out tripping over everything one inch and a quarter pipe and it starts jumping that's what they got yeah we're still getting some as soon as I think it was quiet we know we got it then we'll switch back to the other ones to make sure we didn't get no back flow and then hopefully we'll wrap it up because this was working pretty good if we do decide to replace the guts on the spiral vent which I obviously recommend because they're probably the better vents out there then we'll get that rubber seal for that thing to the same time which in theory it's fine but it's still just not the way I want to be known for doing work so and I need to order some igniters for that because they were pretty pretty eight up now since we have pressure on the boiler nine pounds area while we're still draining it I'm gonna kick this on so that it runs the circulators because that technically is coming back over to here and that should push anything up here to this one here as long as it still works which I haven't heard that's out of it yet all right I think we're pretty good so let's go ahead and close that up let's see how she does go open that so open that valve these are all still open and should be up to thirteen pounds area so that adjustment I did thirteen point seven fourteen that's good enough for me could hook the power back up and see what happens all right so what I took that apart we're cleaning that up doesn't look too bad you can blow through that in there so going to finish clean that float up and wipe the bowl out and then that way I make sure that thing is working because it didn't sound like it was bled some water up here and it rose and so it's it's open and it's not leaking so I'm happy with that I'm gonna bleed it one more time cuz when I kicked it on the pumps started sloshing a little bit which you know you can only do so much that's why I wanted to make sure that one's working like I said this one here and no it's not working and it's leaking which sucks so yeah go figure right we have to run some Teflon tape or something on that but not sure it's a bad thing about taking things apart you ain't got the freaking parts we're finally starting to get some warmth here we're at 97 degrees and just kicked on everything's kind of started and been running got the cover on to make sure everything fires with the cover on you can feel it starting like I said get warm going out so now I'm kind of just checking to see which one comes back hottest or comes back hot first come just a little curious there's another bleeder up there that should have probably been replaced it's funny they took all that apart and re-doped everything but they didn't replace the parts it's just so stupid now I do have one of those manually kicked open because thermostat must have satisfied they they were all getting pretty close but I do get a call back from the supply house they do have that just gotta get permission for that that's gonna drip very much I can do about it it'll be fine but yeah we're gonna have to get that replaced it really don't seem like that's an option so these two right here seem to have gotten gotten it both about the same maybe this one a little bit quicker but that's good it means we're coming back warm on those two at least this one here must be the slab because one of them has a slab it goes out and they're worried that maybe one of them's leak and possibly I don't know why they thought that maybe just because of they had another problem at one of their other buildings but yeah but that's what we ran into main problem we had was the wiring was not making good contact with these own vows they weren't giving a call to the boiler every time some of the zones were opening they had air in the system they had no way to really bleed it the auto bleeder over there was gummed up this one here probably could use a good cleaning but now that I've got the air out I'm not messing with it now didn't see it till just now and that pretty much it's gonna probably wrap it up other than coming back to replace that spiral vent which is like I said bad if you guys enjoyed 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