Hot water baseboard crud

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Hot water baseboard crud

Author: Dos522 (CT)

While moving around in my bathroom, I happened to mistakenly kick the hot water baseboard. The end cap fell off and I noticed that at the elbow joint where the pipe comes through the floor and into the baseboard there was this rust colored crud all over it. I scrapped some off and it's kind of pasty. I also noticed a whole in the wall that the previous owner covered up with the end cap. As this is my first home, purchased a year ago, I am still trying to learn its little quirks. Does anybody have an idea what could be causing this and if it's part of a bigger problem?

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Re: Hot water baseboard crud
Author: george 7941 (Canada) Is this crud wet or dry? If dry, probably nothing to worry about. Any signs of moisture anywhere?
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Author: packy (MA) also, covering a hole in the wall with the end cap is not uncommon. when it gets warm outside, you could have a heating technician come by and have a look at the water in the heating system. it shouldn't be rusty colored. they can drain the system, flush a cleaner thru it and fill it with clean water with a boiler treatment/conditioner added to it.
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Re: Hot water baseboard crud
Author: Dos522 (CT) Here's a picture of what I'm seeing.
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Re: Hot water baseboard crud
Author: Dos522 (CT) George, The "crud" is dryish, but I have notice a rust colored liquid on the inside of the baseboard cover.
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Re: Hot water baseboard crud
Author: bernabeu (SC) 'seems' to be a 'crappy' solder joint which 'may' be 'weeping' after heating season get it redone by a 'real' plumber ============================================== "Measure Twice & Cut Once" - Retired U.A. Local 1 & 638
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Re: Hot water baseboard crud
Author: packy (MA) i see a viega press sleeve attached to fostapex under all that crud. it could be a poor crimp joint or it could be poor solder joint. in either case it will need to be addressed come warm weather. also, as i said in my previous post, have a heating tech look at the reason you are getting rusty crud from the heat. that is not normal..
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Re: Hot water baseboard crud
Author: Paul48 (CT) In the meantime....Don't play with it.
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Thank you!
Author: Dos522 (CT) Thank you all for your comments and insight. I will let it be for now, but when it warms up outside I'll have someone come out and take a look. Edited 1 times.
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Re: Hot water baseboard crud
Author: Paul48 (CT) If the bathroom is perpetually cold, that would be the time to upgrade the emitter to something with a higher output.
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