Brownstone renovation - plumbing recs
We’re renovating a 4 story brownstone and are doing all of the plumbing from scratch. It will have 2 kitchens, 4.5 bathrooms and a variety of normal drains and such. I’m trying to get some point of view on what we should budget for good quality work and who we should turn to as go…
We’re renovating a 4 story brownstone and are doing all of the plumbing from scratch. It will have 2 kitchens, 4.5 bathrooms and a variety of normal drains and such. I’m trying to get some point of view on what we should budget for good quality work and who we should turn to as go to plumbers for this sort of job.
We currently have forced air but are considering putting in radiators – budget permitting.
Thank you,
David
I agree, if it is within your budget forced hydronic heating is the best way to heat your home. There are a variety of different types of High Efficiency Boilers that can be used and also many different types of radiation products. We are in the process of removing an existing Hot Air System in a Town House in Fort Greene and installing a new Forced Hydronic System using an HE Type Boiler with with free standing cast iron radiators. The owner is choosing to use the old style radiators in keeping with the style of the home. We are also using an Indirect Hot Water Heater to satisfy the home with its domestic hot water needs. It will operate as a seperate zone off the new boiler. We feel it is one of the best ways to make hot water and virtually maintenance free. Key to anything that you do though will be to have a heat loss calculation done on your home so the best equipment can be used to meet your heating needs.
There’s no debate……if it’s in the budget to convert to forced hydronic heating with either radiators, baseboard, radiant, flat panel baseboard, wall panel radiators, etc. with a high efficient boiler….DO IT!!! You will get the payback in efficiency and comfort. There are also tax credits and rebates out there to offset the cost. We’ve found a payback of 8 years or less for putting in these systems.
Thanks for the info folks.
We’re debating hot water heat (radiators), existing forced air system, combining with cooling (mitsubishi citi multi). If combined with the citi we’d either use their heatpump or push hot water to the air handlers.
Any opinions on any of this?
Thanks,
David
I second the vote for John Hlad….. in fact he left here today after giving me a price on yet another job hes going to do for me.
John Hlad is the only plumber id call ( i just wish he would go do some work on my country place upstate) lol
FadetoGrey….Thank you for the kind words and I’m happy that you’ve been so pleased with our work….Erik
David, You can be looking at around $40K – $50K for the Plumbing and around $30K – 40K to convert to hot water heating. Of course there are many factors that can vary those prices, but those are pretty solid budget numbers. Do you have a GC for the project yet or are you planning on hiring all of your own subs and GC’ing yourself? If you hire a GC, they might want to bring in their own subs.
Contact Aladdin Plumbing Corp. I own a Townhouse in Greenpoint and have used them for years for various projects and our go to plumber. Always on time, great job and fair price. Not the cheapest, but you don’t want the cheapest you want great quality workmen and good work. They aren’t far off when I’ve gotten mulitple estimateds on jobs.