Nikki's Home Guide

A boiler is very beneficial and necessary during the cold weather. Who wouldn’t want to feel all cozy when the weather is calling for it anyway? But all of these would be fruitless if your boiler is not working. In these cases, you could either call for emergency plumbers to fix your problems or you could do the boiler repairs for yourself whatever the problem it may be. Whatever the case though, it is important to start with the different components of a boiler to understand more what you can do to fix it.

There are different kinds of boilers that could be found in the market and it would depend on your needs and your preference on what type to choose. One of the said boilers is the hydronic system of forced-water boiler. Compared to the system of forced air furnace, this system is more complicated because they have more parts. This means that to do boiler repairs, you have to know more about the different parts of this kind of system.

There are two parts of the boiler- the hot water supply side and the hot water return side. For the hot water supply side, there is the air vent, aquastat, combination pressure or the temperature gage also known as the tridicator, expansion tank, flow control valve, gas valve and burners, pressure reducing valve, pressure relief valve and water feed valve.

Air vent filters out from the hydronic system the unwanted air. Aquastat on the other hand is the regulator of the temperature of the boilers while the tridicator shows the pressure and temperature of the water. The different valves- flow control, pressure reducing, pressure relief, gas and water feed- helps to make the entire thing work. Boiler repairs would be more difficult if the problems lie in one of these valves. If this is the case, you would need the help of emergency plumbers.

For the hot water return side, there are only two parts to consider which are the circulator and the drain valve. The circulator helps in the circulation of water in the system through an electric pump. The drain valve on the other hand helps to clean the broiler by draining it.