Comments on: The AFG Beckett Burner Review

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By: WeT HeaD

WeT HeaD — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:14:25 +0000

In reply to Laura. Hi, Laura. First of all, it sounds like your sink water pipe and the one for bathtub are two separate lines. If they are shared via one source copper pipe, there should be no difference. One thing you can check is to turn on the hot water system and go down to your basement to watch what the burner does. If you see the flame starts to run off and boiler kicks off itself, then it is doing what it's supposed to do. Do the same thing on the bathtub hot water and examine.

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 23:29:18 +0000

Why does my bath water take forever to heat up (5-10 min) and the sink water in bathroom is fine? What should the gage be set at for the temperature on my boiler? I have a Beckett AFG

By: William - Homeowner

William - Homeowner — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:00:11 +0000

Can anyone help with this problem?

I have the following unit: MAKE: Burnham MODEL: Beckett
SERIAL #: 951030-4502 MODEL: “AFG” Series Oil Burner
BOILER #: 27112735 DOE HTG CAP MBG = 121
Steam Square Feet: 379 Steam MBH = 91 Water MBH = 105

I recently changed to a new local oil company. The new Tech performed an annual maintenance check-up earlier this year. This is not a new unit so it’s been serviced by other local techs. No problems were discovered but ever since his first maintenance check-up – the furnance has an additional muffled rumbling engine noise. Could the new Tech have done something that wasn’t correct? The added sound is like truck engines driving by. No metal clanking just a louder but muffled engine sound. Instead of sounding like a quiet residential furnance – it sounds more like a commercial furnace with greater capacity. I’ve asked him to return several times to remove the engine rumbling sound but he has not been unable to detect a problem. ANY SUGGESTIONS? William -HOMEOWNER

By: Ralph

Ralph — Fri, 14 May 2010 21:18:05 +0000

My Beckett Oil Burner starts and then stops continually and then finally kicks on. Also even when both the two zone thermostats are set to off the baseboards still get warm or hot and we have little or no hot water. I thoroughly cleaned it and replaced the power exhaust vent, I also added a mixer valve because the water in the kitchen was scalding hot. What should the temperature setting on the burner be? I really would appreciate an answer as the burner guy said every thing was fine when the power vent was rusted and rotted out but wouldn’t start it cause he said it was out of code because of the direct vent exhaust.

By: John Fasanello

John Fasanello — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:20:03 +0000

Our AFG burner (installed Oct. 1997) has been extremely noisy of late. Serviceman saw that there was no soot this fall, so did not clean the furnace. Then the device began to run very loud, so he replaced the fuel filter & pump screen, did a CO2 blowback of oil to the tank, cleaned the nozzle, readjusted electrode and porcelain (? can’t read clearly), flushed the assembly…on Jan 11.

Now, a week later, the roaring noise is back. And lots of soot! Any suggestions?

By: John

John — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:45:47 +0000

Thanks for the quick response,

I will call the person servicing it – A long Holiday weekend out of town would be the WORST time for something to go wrong with our heating system.
As far as what it may be? As I stated previously, we have always found it to be lounder than what you would think – even others have commented on it, and I have asked the technician about it (thus the smaller nozzle this past spring). Now, it sounds different, and maybe even a little louder. I notice something different at the end of the cycle as the burner is shutting down (or after it shuts off).

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:45:09 +0000

In reply to John.

Hi John,

Does it sound like the fan blower motor bearings have gone bad?

I would call whoever is serving it in a week and ask if they can come sooner just to make sure it gets fixed before whatever is making the noise breaks and then you wind up with no heat,

Just my thoughts, Let me know if you need any other help or have more questions,

Either way – Happy Holidays!!

Joseph

By: John

John — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:42:20 +0000

I have a Beckett AFG and it is just REALLY loud. I have it serviced in the spring and this past spring they tried downfiring the nozzle to reduce the noise and at the time it seemed better…
Now, However, it seems only louder and seems to run more. We are having it serviced in a week – not sure what we will do. We built the house 5 years ago and it has always driven us CRAZY.
Any ideas??

By: Phillip Russo

Phillip Russo — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:03:10 +0000

Do you know how long the 1/16 pipe plug would be and dose it have a tappered end. I tried the standard 1/16 pipe plug with the 5/32 allen wrench but it only went in 1 turn.
thanks
phil