Winterized, eh?

[John Arnold]

Someone forgot to winterize the heating system.

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[Dwight Doane]

Thank you for sharing this. Nice educational photo , I always wondered what the inside looked like , also good for educating customers . how bad was the rest of the damage

[John Arnold]

...how bad was the rest of the damage

That's the $ 64,000 question. Didn't see any other damage, but there's no way to know without replacing that radiator and then pressure testing the system. Could be all kinds of hidden damage.

[Rod Butler]

Is that a cast iron radiator? Seems like an unlikely place for freeze damage to occur, I would expect that to be near the bottom of the unit.

Looks more like someone took a hammer to it.

Cool photo regardless!

[Mike Lamb]

Looks more like someone took a hammer to it.



Agreed.

[Marshall Brown]

We have seen several of these over the last few years in foreclosures. The top seems to be the weakest area, at least in my observation although I saw one when almost everything was broken. If the radiators are blowing out what do you think the boiler case looks like?

I have, and like, hydronic heating in my 113 year old Victorian. It's a minus 24F outside as I write this. If I lost heat I'd probably have the same thing in 24 hours or so. Scary!

[Mike Lamb]

We have seen several of these over the last few years in foreclosures.

Check out the carpet. If that blew up from ice expansion, where are the water marks?

[Garry Sorrells]

Check out the carpet. If that blew up from ice expansion, where are the water marks?


Then there is the question of where are the broken pieces?

[Dwight Doane]

Rod does make an interesting point (his comments are below)

So why would this bust at the top ? Simple , Ice floats so the ice would raise to the top and more ice would build on the crystal structure and expand - where are the pieces Doctor Watson ? don't know , Water marks if the system was not pressurized then the water would be limited and the ice might have evaporated before it could create water damage


"Rod Butler
Re: Winterized, eh?
Is that a cast iron radiator? Seems like an unlikely place for freeze damage to occur, I would expect that to be near the bottom of the unit.

Looks more like someone took a hammer to it.

Cool photo regardless!

[Jerry Peck]

The water marks are running down the side of the radiator, running down from that rusted top edge of the bottom of the opening - that indicates, at least to me, that there had been a long term crack in that casting and that piece finally broke the rest of the way off.

I doubt someone took a hammer to it, unless it was to see how long the crack was, and while pinging it to listen to the cracked cast iron ring (cast iron pipe has a different ring to it when it is cracked then when it is not cracked, I suspect cast iron radiators would also have a different ring when cracked).

If that was just damage caused by someone breaking it I doubt those water stains would be there and that top edge of the bottom of the hole would not be rusted like that.