Hello All,
During our last winter snow storm which we had a few weeks ago. The Winter Cyclone I believe they called it, we lost power around my neighborhood for a almost 2 hours (Northern Westchester). After the power finally came back on some pressure built up in the pipes and the check valve release a whole bunch of water onto the floor. Long story short, the small tank on top of the furnace was bad, the pressure gate was bad and the check valve went bad.
I called my oil provider and had them come over to fix the issue. They replace that small tank, pressure gauge, and check release valve. The tech fired up the furnace, I put the heat on and all was well. I have heat up and down stairs. Checked the water and it was coming out nice and warm.
Now the problem is that I no longer have hot water. I have luke warm water all throughout the house. Shower, bathrooms, kitchen. I also notice the boiler room is not as warm as it used to be before the power outage.
Once in a while the water in the shower will come out much warmer for about a minute, but then it goes luke warm again.
Plumbing is not my thing, I don't know much about it, so I don't tinker with anything boiler or plumbing. This has been like this for about two weeks now. The shower water barely comes out warm now. But once in a while I will get a minute or so of nice very warm water.
I do have an annual maintenance contract with my oil company.
Before I call them back, I was wondering if anyone can possibly give me some ideas as to why this is now. As I mentioned before, the heat works perfectly fine throughout the house. It's just the barely warm water now...
Your help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!!!
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