Sorry if I put this in the wrong place. I have an older house (30 years old) and one of my hot water baseboards started leaking. I took the cover off and noticed that the water appears to be coming from where the petcock is mounted to the copper pipe (it appears to be a bolt on type petcock). I am pretty handy around the house, but have never had a baseboard heater problem. Can someone please walk me through fixing it. Thanks for all of your help.
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Do you mean it is a saddle valve that wraps around the pipe, or is it in a elbow at the end of the radiator coming out the top of the elbow. We put
vent els in the end of radiators to bleed the air out. The bleeder screws into
the vent els. If you have to change the bleeder that screws in, you would have to turn off gas to boiler, turn thermostat up and let the water temp. cool down. if you can turn off that loop then you won't lose to much water when
you put a new one in. Turn off water feed and take a little water out of the boiler
drain valve to take the pressure off the system if you can't turn off that loop -
you would have to use the same process i just talked about to take the pressure off and have the new one there ready to put in. after you cool it down and turn off the feed water you can open that valve that is leaking and let the water out. You can try to turn the bolts down on the old valve and maybe it will stop leaking. later PaulComment
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