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I have an oil furnance, with hot water base boards. It seams as though some rooms are colder than others. When feeling the baseboard they seam cold as well. How would you fix this, are the lines cloged?
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could be air locked or the circulators are not on...or the valves are not open. You need to look at your system and identify how many zones you have and see if that zone is being turned on by it's thermostat. Did you suddenly lose heat or did you just finally ask us?
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*Not so happy: A room might be too cold if the same water has run through other rooms first and is not as hot. But if those bseboards aren't even warm, AJ is right. Houston, we have a problem.Turn on all your thermostats. Go to your utility room. All the outgoing lines should be hot. If one is not, its valve may not opening. The valve may have died or there is a problem with the relays that control it. If you are comfortable and competent, check for voltage (usually 24 volts, could be 120 volts). Voltage at the valve means a bad valve. No voltage means a bad relay or bad thermostat. Or, if that zone has a separate pump, that pump may be fried. Check the pump's voltage (usually 120 volts AC, concievable 24 or 220 volts).Purging air from the lines, if that is problem, could solve it. But you ought to understand what all the valves, backflow preventers, pressure reducing valves, etc do before twiddling the handles. And that would leave the question of how the air get in there to be resolved.I say feel the pipes to determine where the flow of hot water stops. Then, if you are comfortable with a voltmeter, get the valves and pumps to further isolate the problem. -David