1st where is my zone valve? I have an old Burnham gas baseboard heater2nd What do I do?My last resort is calling a proffesional.
USA If you do not know where your valve is, you could not have tested it. How do you know it is not functioning? It might be that the electric signal required to operate the valve is not getting to the valve. Most zone valves can be opened and closed manually, if you want the heat constantly on or off. If you do not know where the valve is, or what to do with it, I strongly recommend you contact a licensed professional HVAC contractor.
do mean you have an area in house that the heat isnt working in? if so try by passing the thermostat zone valve is that same as circulator pump its valve in the line to radiator usually near boiler has wires onit that go to thermostat should be a circulator pump for each thermostat
if your sure its not the thermostat than the zone valve should be near the boiler in the copper line. Most valves have a flat lever that slides when it is powered up to open. You can open manually by sliding the lever
First: Wat make you tinkling that the zone is bad? Every zone cooperate with 2 other essential parts: thermostat and power supply, In 90% of my carea, people firs go with their thinking to zone, but only 10% was realy zone. The first thing to check is termostat and power. you could do this very simply by removing termostat wire and tickling them together several times, if they have spark, than the most prabably is just thermostat broken
You may have only one circulate pump on the boiler. If you want to check the zone valve there is a small handle on the valve you can lift up and this will open the valve manually. It will be found on the (usually) green valve on the return end of the copper pipe. It should have a red and white wire attached. If this is opened manually and you get heat you can replace the top half of the valve by twisting it off and exchanging it with a new one. I think they are around $35.00 bucks or so at Home depot. You can keep it open without and fear. This means you will only have a one zone boiler and all baseboard s will get heat instaed of being zoned
