I’m looking at a conversion of a 4 unit apartment building c. 1914 to condos. Presently there is one boiler and one thermostat for the whole building. I am familiar with an object found in British flats called a combination or “combi” boiler. It provides the hot water for the radiators as well as for the bathrooms and kitchen and laundry. It is small enough to go in the “airing cupboard” – i.e. it is inside the condo itself, not in the basement. I think something like this might be a good solution for our building, as each unit has a good sized hall closets. Problem is, I don’t know what they are called over here – can you help? Also, anyone with experience of using them over here? Any potential problems with using them with the original cast-iron radiators?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m looking at a conversion of a 4 unit apartment building c. 1914 to condos. Presently there is one boiler and one thermostat for the whole building. I am familiar with an object found in British flats called a combination or “combi” boiler. It provides the hot water for the radiators as well as for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-5671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heating"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2006\/06\/4-unit-building\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"4 unit building – individual boiler in each unit?","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2006\/06\/4-unit-building\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2006\/06\/4-unit-building\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Heating","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"anon"}],"creator":["anon"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2006-06-28T16:06:22Z","datePublished":"2006-06-28T16:06:22Z","dateModified":"2008-07-28T16:27:09Z"},"rendered":"