the pipe outside my house where the excess liquid from the boiler drains out of was spitting out a brown substance so i went upstairs to examine and saw the tray around the boiler was like halfway full of a thick brown gelatinous liquid, i did not touch it but it had the color and look of maple syrup, but of course much less thicker, what is it? whats going on with my boiler?
hmmm.... Is this an oil fired boiler (diesel oil?) or gas? Probably wouldn't hurt to touch the goo, .... it could be a glycol solution used to prevent freezing of the pipes should you loose heat... mixed with a bit of rust in the system and has turned it brown.... sounds like a leak of some kind.... be adventureous and put your finger in the brown goo... rub it... smell it.. it if smells like diesel fuel then you have a fuel leak... if it is slimmy and doesn't have much of a smell other than a stale/rotten smell than possibly glycol leak.... if it is just gooie, wet like water with no real slime it could be just boiler water. It could have a pin hole in the casting and it is just plain old boiler water leaking out... which is usually brown ugly but not gelatinous..... so that is odd... if it is fuel oil... that isn't good but sounds like is not or you would have probably smelled it... and the boiler is located upstairs which is also odd as they are usually located in basement so makes me concerned as to what your realy talking about... but will go for the boiler less any other info about age, make, fuel source etc..that is located up stairs. As for the fluid loss, There is a low water cut off on the system. If the water level drop so far it will shut down the system to protect the boiler = no heat. Regardless sounds like you need to contact boiler people...
