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Originally Posted by tkvpice  I have an old system in the house (1938) single pipe system with diverter tee's the old cast iron type main line is 1" reduces to 1/2" on the risers to the rads. when I purchased the house in 91 I replaced the boiler w/a raypack copper boiler I also replaced the rads with copper baseboard. everything worked fine. last year the boiler started leaking, I replaced with the same unit... |
It seems that you have iron pipe connected to a copper boiler and copper baseboards.
There could be a problem with galvanic corrosion caused by the dissimilar metals.
I don't have experience with copper boilers, but I think any boiler should be expected to last more than 20 years.
Doug