Boilers

Boilers use water’s ability to collect, carry, and transfer heat in order to warm your home. Boilers function by heating water to the point where it boils (hence the name), and then pump it throughout your home. As the water travels through the pipes in your walls or through heat sources like radiators, the heat is transferred into the air, keeping your home warm.

Boiler systems immediately face a few added challenges compared to furnaces. For one, boilers are considerably more complex, and installing one in a home that isn’t already equipped with a boiler can be a costly endeavor. Likewise, the fact that they involve a network of pipes carrying water or even steam that’s under high pressure does carry some added risk—even a pinhole leak could cause serious damage to your home or burn injuries to anyone who may come in contact with the extremely hot water.

However, they have their benefits too. Boilers are significantly more efficient than furnaces, often using only a tiny portion of the energy to keep your home warm.

Because water is able to contain and transfer such an incredibly high amount of heat, boilers don’t have to cycle nearly as often as furnaces do, which means better heating without the hassle of constantly running a furnace. Also, boiler systems can be effectively run through many different places in your home. Radiators are often positioned on ground level near the floor, which means more even heating in any room from top to bottom. Plus some boilers have heating grids installed in floors, which gives you added warmth and heat from your feet all the way up.

Contact DiRocco Plumbing & Heating Services for all your boiler installation and repair needs today.