Posted on 11/24/2010 5:39:37 AM PST by mark3681
Ever experienced radiant floor heat? It's the best, most efficient way to heat, bar none. It's like the Sun shining out of the floor. You heat the objects in the room, rather than the air and you are in contact with the heating surface, so lower room temps are very comfortable. Much lower boiler temps are used, i.e., non-condensing, because the supply temp only needs to be about 125F. It's easily adaptable to solar, outdoor fired wood boilers, LP, natural gas, fuel oil, whatever. I put it in my house when I built it about 15 years ago. I've since installed it in my hangar and greenhouse, too. Toasty! (and we spend about 1/4th the cost of what my neighbor pays to heat with forced air)
Some good advice: Call someone who knows they’re doing, pay a few bucks, save a lot head aches later.
And guess what..you mess with the boiler and it quits the landlord is going to say you broke it, you fix it.
It is much safer to have someone who knows what they are doing with a boiler system to come in and look at it...I pay about $79 a year for the tuneup, well worth any headaches in the middle of winter
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