One of our website visitors, Robert, sent us an e-mail complaining that we never talk about hot water baseboard heating systems (localized radiant heating). “All I ever read about is forced hot air ...
For years, Dana Morton says he put up with a "groaning" oil furnace in the cellar beneath his bedroom. Today, he says his high-efficiency Baxi Luna wall-hung boiler heating system is so quiet and ...
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Boilers vs. Furnaces: What’s the Difference?

Boilers and furnaces use fuel or electricity to heat a building, but they work differently. Here's what you need to know ...
Scott and Ruth Rice’s stone and stucco home in Upper Macungie Township has cathedral ceilings, palladium windows and nearly 4,300 square feet of living space, including the finished basement. Yet the ...
Sidearm water heaters were developed decades ago so that boilers could provide both space heating and domestic hot water. Generically, they are water-to-water heat exchangers that transfer heat from ...
Q. I have a 2,500-square-foot Colonial with hot water baseboard heat. My boiler is 25 years old and in good shape. Last spring, after paying $5.50 per gallon for heating oil, I had National Grid ...
Heat from the solar collectors is distributed through a radiant floor heating system using PEX tubing running through aluminium heat spreader plates. A hot water baseboard heating system is another ...
The problem with installing a boiler that matches the building’s heat loss at design-day conditions is that it is oversized for roughly 90% of the heating season We too often encounter modulating ...