I have a Well McLain Gold GV boiler for my baseboard hot water heating system in my house. My house and heating is only about 2 years old. Last night, I lost all water in the house because my well pump either stopped working or got clogged. I noticed once I lost water and water pressure in the house that this piece connected to the water line coming from my boiler started dripping water. The water was dripping out of this little 4 foot piece of pvc pipe connected to this this thing called a "Backflow Preventer with intermediate Atmos. Vent" I never noticed water dripping out of this piece of pipe before. Now I have my well water back working normally and water is still dripping out of this piece of pipe by the boiler. I do not know why it is and if this is normal or not. Right now I just have a bucket under the end of this piece of pipe to collect the water dripping out. Can anybody help me out with what this may be? if this is normal and it should stop soon, etc? Thanks

Hi, We have a single-pipe steam radiator system in our house (we also supplement heat with pellets). I have a situation with one radiator that is curious. Our garage is heated and has a radiator that hangs horiziontally (it is very large, probably 12 feet). I noticed that they was no control valve on it, and occasionally you can see steam coming from the valve hole. So I bought a variable control steam value and installed it and put it on a medium setting (standard one from the home despot which has a screw and red indicator on top to show you heat output). What happens next is that the whole radiator no longer gets any heat, and the other radiators in the house start to push out a lot more steam (making hissing noises that normally don’t happen). When I remove the valve (from the now cold radiator compared to all the other warm ones) much steam is released, and the radiator warms up again. It’s almost like this radiator acts as one place to relieve access steam pressure in the system, but any attempt to control it makes it turn off. I tried to then remove the valve screw to keep it as open as possible, but the same results occured (cold radiator, lots of steam from other radiator valves). Any help would be appreciated on this. I’d like to get some temp control on this radiator, because it gets super hot which is wasted in our garage.... Thanks everyone for your help. ML