Vermont Oil-Fired Boiler Service
Furnaces heat and distribute air; boilers heat and distribute water. Oil-fired boilers offer several advantages over furnaces:
- Boilers provide hot water as well as space heating.
- Boilers provide very even heat.
- Thanks to new technology, homeowners with boilers can now install a central air conditioning system more easily than in the past.
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In a hot water (hydronic) boiler system, heated water from the boiler is pumped by a circulator through radiators, radiant floor tubing or baseboards. Homes with hot water heating are often divided into separate heating areas known as zones. This provides efficient, comfortable, trouble-free, inexpensive heating.
High efficiency, condensing oilheat boilers are now available. This equipment can be as high as 92% efficient, thanks to a second heat exchanger that recovers heat from flue gases.
Boiler Efficiency
Efficiency is measured by Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency (AFUE) ratio, determined by a testing procedure from the U.S. Department of Energy. All furnaces and boilers manufactured since 1980 come with a label showing AFUE. The AFUE ratio measures equipment performance over an entire season. This is different from combustion efficiency which measures how well oil burners convert oil into heat. Our service technicians test combustion efficiency as part of annual tune-ups.
Older boilers are much less efficient than newer equipment. Boilers that are 30 years old are about 65% efficient; new boilers have efficiency ratings of 80% - 92%.