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How do you bring an old hot water heating system that uses cast iron radiators into the 21st century? Do like this client and call Alber Service Company for a 95% efficient Bradford-White Brute Combi boiler. This boiler replaces and old 65% efficient cast iron boiler so it is going to cut the heating bills by 30%. But it also produces domestic hot water for showering, dishes, laundry, etc. So the hot water heating bills will also drop by 30%.
And comfort is improved because it uses outdoor rest. This means the water to the radiators only gets as hot as needed to offset the current conditions outside. The old system would deliver 180-degree water even if it was 55-degrees outside. This resulted in the radiators getting too hot and the room temperature soaring above the thermostat set point. Not good!
Outdoor reset also adds savings to already 30% savings by minimizing back loss. Back loss describes what happens in back of the radiator when it is pushed up against a cold outside wall. By only heating the radiator as much as needed for the conditions at any given moment, the amount of heat driven through the wall to the outside is greatly reduced.
Oh, yeah. And it looks great! Like a little NASA science project.