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February 21, 2009
My Boiler: a Sports Car Engine!
I swear my new boiler looks like this miniature version of a sports car. Or a space ship. It's the most high tech thing I've ever seen. I had New York Solar Systems install it. You can see Chester from NY Solar in the picture. They suggested I go with a Buderus boiler. It is so efficient you can put your hand over the exhaust vent and it's barely hot. Try putting your hand over the exhaust of an old boiler without getting third degree burns.
Buderus is really simple to operate. It's just this little space age pop out drawer with two knobs. But you do want somebody who knows what they are doing to install it otherwise you might not maximize the efficiency. And NY Solar really did a great job. It claims to be in the high 90 percentile of efficiency.
This post is basically a plug for Buderus and NY Solar Systems because I am so impressed by both. It is hard to find a good honest plumber so I'm raving about the one I've found. Their number is 516 318 1172.
I know this is totally in my heat but the hot water feels better coming from the new boiler!
Comments
buderus is one of the best boilers around..i dont see a seperate zone for hot water , but i assume that it is there...how is the subfloor pex working for heat...i have never been crazy about nonreflected pex under wood subfloors, but that looks like the system that you set up
Posted by: eman1234 at February 21, 2009 8:49 PM
btw.. why is there not a single local contractor on your job?...where is the "green" premise of shopping locally?
Posted by: eman1234 at February 21, 2009 9:10 PM
Gennaro, do you have a better picture?
The boiler looks like the GB142.
Is there a reason the contractor chose not to use tubing with an oxygen barrier or reflecting plates like eman mentioned?
All modern literature recommends not doing a staple-up job without them.
Why did you use a solar company from Chester, NY to install a gas-fired boiler in Brooklyn?
Posted by: Master Plvmber at February 21, 2009 10:48 PM
This appeared on the post about grinding the stainless sink:
New York Solar Systems LLC is a Brooklyn Company that specializes in high efficiency heating systems and solar thermal installations for domestic water and space heating. We are not from Chester, N.Y. In Genaro's house we only installed the boiler not the radiant heat.
Posted by: bernieklinger at February 21, 2009 11:55 PM
Posted by: kelly at February 22, 2009 9:09 AM
There are enough nit pickers on Brownstoner to delouse a whole colony of Baboons. The pex is oxygen barrier, there are a whole bunch of people working on the building and obviously they are local, the radiant floor isn't fully installed etc, etc.
Posted by: gennaro at February 22, 2009 4:48 PM
Also enough self-promoting snake-oil salesmen—not you, of course—to bring a carnie back from the dead. If you don't want people commenting on your posts, maybe best to resist posting.
Posted by: vinca at February 22, 2009 5:27 PM
vinca! nice to see you again. you are like obsessed with me. i love it.
lest we forget why i posted: buderus and NY solar. I recommend both if you ever want a new boiler and somebody qualified to install it.
Posted by: gennaro at February 22, 2009 9:06 PM
you should have aluminum plates in that staple up
Posted by: werner at February 22, 2009 9:42 PM
People were reading without paying attention (a guy's name is Chester, now Brooklyn plumbers are up in arms about not going local. You probably shouldn't give a plug for anyone who doesn't have a 718 area code :-)
Who installed the radiant heat?
Posted by: Bklnite at February 23, 2009 11:52 AM
The radiant heat was installed under the floor because the ceiling space in the floor above is low so we didn't have any space to put it above the subfloor. Eco Brooklyn installed it. But it isn't done yet. As you can see there are no fins, although we might go with another high mass alternative to fins for cost reasons.
Posted by: gennaro at February 23, 2009 1:38 PM
This looks very nice. If I may ask an ignorant question:
does your heating system use plastic piles?
I have original 1910 hot-water heating system. It is based on the threaded pipes, which hang 2' down from the basement ceiling and take pretty much whole basement. I wanted to replace these pipes with something very close to the ceiling. Somebody suggested to use copper pipes, but I am not clear about copper pipe to iron radiator electrolysis. Plastic pipes looks like something ideal in my situation.
Posted by: bobjohn at February 23, 2009 3:06 PM
I apologize if I misunderstood, but it seems to me the post was edited. Even the contractor commented on it.
Posted by: Master Plvmber at February 23, 2009 4:47 PM
You can edit a forum post?
Posted by: gennaro at February 23, 2009 6:05 PM
To bobjohn.
You can use "m"copper to reroute the piping in the ceiling and use di-electric unions on the piping to avoid electrolysis from ocurring .In most hot water systems,the lack of oxygen in the water protects the piping from internal rusts,hence the existence of the original piping and the brackish,dark color of the boiler water
Posted by: birchwoodc at February 24, 2009 7:30 PM
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