I have oil heat in my house..with baseboards in each room. I have separate thermometers ..one upstairs and one downstairs..Two rooms upstairs are not getting any heat, as the baseboards are cold. What is the problem and can it be fixed by a novice or should i call heating person or oil burner person?
2006-12-05 13:16:56 · 7 answers · asked by just wondering 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Take a look at the boiler. You have a system to deliver the hot water to the baseboard. In an older house there is one pump and there are electric valves that control which zone gets hot water. More recently each zone has its own pump.
It could be a bad thermostat - open it up, find the two wires that are for heat (most of these hot water basebaord systems have only 2 wires- if more, try red and white). Take the wires off the thermostat screws and twist them together. You get heat the thermostat need to be replaced.
Still no heat? Does the pump kick on when you short the thermostat wires? You have the other zone to compare, so you should be able to get a feel for what the pump sounds like when on. Often the recirc pumps have a little fuse box right near the pump - have you a blown recirc fuse?
If you have one pump and zone valves is there a dead zone valve? Get a meter and see what the votage is across the terminals on the good zone valve when on and when off. SHort and open the thermostat on the bad zone and see if the voltage follows the same pattern on the dead zone. yes? bad valve? no? bad thermostat or bad wiring or bad zone controller. You just have to follow the signal from the thermostat and find where it stops.
2006-12-05 15:18:46 · answer #1 · answered by Mike 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would call in the pro's. It sounds like you have one thermostat controlling upstairs and one for downstairs. If that is the case then you may have a bad thermostat upstairs or a bad wire to the furnace. Either way, if you are not comfortable messing around with it, I would call in the heating guys.
2006-12-05 21:22:21 · answer #2 · answered by Bman 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
one burner and two thermostats. Burner can only answer one at a time. Set the lower thermostat to off, turn the upper one to high. You don't say how many rooms are upstairs, but I assume two.
2006-12-05 21:21:07 · answer #3 · answered by T C 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Neither.
It's the pump that lifts the hot water to the second floor.
Call the heating guy.
2006-12-06 01:12:13 · answer #4 · answered by James H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
switch the thermostats, and see if the problem doesn't reverse to the other floor. If it does, you know you have a bad thermostat.
If you buy replacements, go with the programmable digital ones. They'll save you energy!
2006-12-05 21:28:48 · answer #5 · answered by Lion J 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not enough info is the oil forced air, what do the thermostats control? one for the electric one for the oil? have you checked the fuse/breakers for the electric heat ?
2006-12-05 21:41:29 · answer #6 · answered by Dave 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
take a pick.... bad thermastat, bad zone valve, not big enough of a pump
bad thermastat? you can do it urself... open it up... and touch both the wires together... if you get heat... then just pick up a new thermastat
everything else... u gonna need a boiler/plumber to fix...
2006-12-05 23:53:52 · answer #7 · answered by WongFeiHung 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋