Gas and Oil Home Heating Furnaces - No heat in attic room

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yoly04
12-23-04, 10:29 AM
I have an older furnaces from the 1950's.We heat with oil. Two family house all the heater are working except the attic bedroom. We replaced the thermostat, we bleed the line and there was hot water but still no heat. Everything seems to be running fine and the water boiler is at the correct temp :confused: what else should we do?


Ed Imeduc
12-23-04, 10:51 AM
Need info here . Just what do you have there. You say oil furnace then you say you bleed the lines is this hot water?
Does burner run ok? what is the temp and psi if this is a water boiler. Come back in this same post and some one can try and help you.

ED ;)

relayed
12-23-04, 11:03 AM
my GUESS would be that there is a valve in the ducting, a handle as it were, that is pointed in an an-attical direction. In more words, look around and on the heater ducting, near the furnace, for little levers that control the baffles of thine ducts. This advice presupposes that you can see your ducting. Look for the duct that most likely heads to the attic. Hope for one of these levers to be accessible. Tweak it/them until you have attic flow. Otherwise you may be looking at a clog in the ducts (doubtful) or maybe the vent you see is a return vent in which case there should be another somewhere in the room that may be blocked by, say, a bookcase.

-applying the shotgun logic effect since 1967


mattison
12-23-04, 11:12 AM
If he's bleeding he don't have ducts.

What's the psi reading on the boiler?