I have a New Yorker oil boiler from the mid 80's (hose built in 1985) on a hot water system with a Beckett burner, I can get the model number at home later. It was recently cleaned and I have a few questions about it. I had been using my oil company to do my yearly services since I bought my house 3 years ago (never had a house or boiler before so I didn't know what needed to be done and just watched them do whatever they did). But their oil prices were getting ridiculous so I left them ($3.35 a gallon now while everyone else is around $2.05) and just had a local guy come in to do a service.
He took the top off the boiler and vacuumed it all out (something the oil company never did in the last 3 years since I've owned it because i was watching them) and there was a bit of soot piled up there. Then when he took the top off the boiler had like 20 vertical tubes in a grid pattern that extended down into the firebox, about 8 of these tube had spiral baffles in them, but not all, and they were randomly laid out which ones had them (not in a pattern or symmetrical or anything). The service guy said it was pretty dirty and could also tell it hadn't been cleaned in there in some time and he pulled the baffles out of the tubes that had them and brushed out all of the tubes before reinstalling the baffles in the ones that had them, the tubes that don't have the baffles are just a straight tube from the firebox up to the top of the boiler. Finally he cleaned and vacuumed the firebox, replaced the nozzles and changed the oil filter and gaskets. He didn't do an efficiency test which next year I think is something I'm going to want.
My question is should all these tubes have had the baffles in them? Had some been removed or misplaced over the years? They looked just like these
http://www.albrohvac.com/ProductInfo.aspx?code=SB114X16&type=0&eq=&desc=SPIRAL-BOILER-BAFFLE-1-1/4"-X-16"&key=it
http://www.albrohvac.com/ProductInfo.aspx?code=SB114X16&type=0&eq=&desc=SPIRAL-BOILER-BAFFLE-1-1/4"-X-16"&key=it
Should I get matching baffles to place in the tubes that don't have them?
The oil company last year was telling me my efficiency of the boiler was under 60% and that he didn't know exactly what is was because his equipment couldn't read any lower and was trying to sell me a new boiler but I passed. My friend who recommended this guy said when they switched from the oil company to him he reduced their jet by 3 sizes and their efficiency increased, and I heard the same from my sister's boyfriend who used the oil company but then switched to someone else and learned the oil company had installed a larger size jet than the factory recommended.
It seems that this oil company has just been making everyone's equipment run less efficiently, I am more curious about the baffles though as it looks different than most pictures I've seen online and googling boiler spiral baffles only brings up the site I linked to above. I'm just wondering if this boiler should have them in all the tubes and since they don't have them all the hot air is just going straight up the top of the boiler?
BTW if anyone wants to know the name of the oil company that was doing this to everyone it's Petro.
He took the top off the boiler and vacuumed it all out (something the oil company never did in the last 3 years since I've owned it because i was watching them) and there was a bit of soot piled up there. Then when he took the top off the boiler had like 20 vertical tubes in a grid pattern that extended down into the firebox, about 8 of these tube had spiral baffles in them, but not all, and they were randomly laid out which ones had them (not in a pattern or symmetrical or anything). The service guy said it was pretty dirty and could also tell it hadn't been cleaned in there in some time and he pulled the baffles out of the tubes that had them and brushed out all of the tubes before reinstalling the baffles in the ones that had them, the tubes that don't have the baffles are just a straight tube from the firebox up to the top of the boiler. Finally he cleaned and vacuumed the firebox, replaced the nozzles and changed the oil filter and gaskets. He didn't do an efficiency test which next year I think is something I'm going to want.
My question is should all these tubes have had the baffles in them? Had some been removed or misplaced over the years? They looked just like these
http://www.albrohvac.com/ProductInfo.aspx?code=SB114X16&type=0&eq=&desc=SPIRAL-BOILER-BAFFLE-1-1/4"-X-16"&key=it
http://www.albrohvac.com/ProductInfo.aspx?code=SB114X16&type=0&eq=&desc=SPIRAL-BOILER-BAFFLE-1-1/4"-X-16"&key=it
Should I get matching baffles to place in the tubes that don't have them?
The oil company last year was telling me my efficiency of the boiler was under 60% and that he didn't know exactly what is was because his equipment couldn't read any lower and was trying to sell me a new boiler but I passed. My friend who recommended this guy said when they switched from the oil company to him he reduced their jet by 3 sizes and their efficiency increased, and I heard the same from my sister's boyfriend who used the oil company but then switched to someone else and learned the oil company had installed a larger size jet than the factory recommended.
It seems that this oil company has just been making everyone's equipment run less efficiently, I am more curious about the baffles though as it looks different than most pictures I've seen online and googling boiler spiral baffles only brings up the site I linked to above. I'm just wondering if this boiler should have them in all the tubes and since they don't have them all the hot air is just going straight up the top of the boiler?
BTW if anyone wants to know the name of the oil company that was doing this to everyone it's Petro.