
What is hydronic heating?
It
is a method of heating that uses hot water or steam instead
of air. With hydronic heat, you get two types of heat delivery:
radiant heat and convected heat. Radiant heat warms you directly,
just like the sun's rays. Convected heat is carried by warm
air circulating in a room.
Hydronic heat lets you choose from several different devices
that use these two heating processes. Hot water from a Burnham
boiler can be piped to radiant tubing hidden in the floor, to
slim baseboard radiators, or to stand-alone radiators. Hot water
can also be circulated through a coil in your central air-conditioning
unit to heat other living spaces with warm air. Plus, hydronic
heating produces more hot water for cooking, washing, hot tubs,
swimming pools, and even radiant sidewalks and driveways to
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Upgrading
Old Equipment
Many homes still rely on boilers and furnaces to provide
heat. In addition to the reliability issues inherent with older
equipment, these systems are significantly less energy efficient
than the ones available today. For example, many old boilers
are rated at only 50-55% AFUE, Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency,
a standard government efficiency rating. In these homes, 45-50
cents of every heating dollar is wasted by system inefficiencies.
Compare this to new boiler efficiencies of 84-87%. A new boiler
can cut energy costs by 1/3, paying for itself in fuel savings
in the first two to three years. And in homes converting from
electric to hot water heat, fuel costs can be cut by over 50%.
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Burnham
provides a combination of residential and
commerical quality products. All Burnham boiler
castings are produced in its own domestic foundry to
ensure quality and availability - a claim no other boiler manufacturer
can make.
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Utica
Boilers products are designed, tested, and assembled to ensure that
you get the very best in home heating and cooling comfort, and value.
Each one meets or exceeds all recognized safety, performance efficiency
standards |
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