Electrified Cast Iron Radiators!?! Anyone have any experience with these?

@smokychimp – we feel exactly the same way! It was good to have a sounding board like this forum in order to hear so many takes on it. I’m sure it has its place somewhere, but Brooklyn isn’t a good fit.

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Guest User | 6 years and 7 months ago

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Hi, we are also looking at ecorad to convert our HW radiators to electric. Did you upgrade your radiators with them? Thank you!

Guest User | 6 years and 7 months ago

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Hi, we are also looking at ecorad to convert our HW radiators to electric. Did you upgrade your radiators with them? Thank you!

Guest User | 6 years and 7 months ago

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We did NOT upgrade the radiators. We had a heck of a time getting reliable information from them and we heard a couple of horror stories about the rads leaking and ruining floors (although, to be fair, only a very few). Also, the cost of electrical work needed to make things work as promised started piling up. We ended up getting a reliable modern boiler and breaking our domestic hot water out into dual hot water heaters (all water had been running through a 40+ year old combi boiler) – we’ve been quite happy with it so far, though I would still love to have a zoned system. Perhaps somewhere down the line we’ll make that happen. Please share your experiences should you decide to go that route.

lkrshacmzcy | 6 years and 7 months ago

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We have followed some of these closely but rarely get any true feedback; would be awesome if you could updates us on your decision and how it works out!

lkrshacmzcy | 6 years and 7 months ago

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We have followed some of these closely but rarely get any true feedback; would be awesome if you could updates us on your decision and how it works out!

Smokychimp | 6 years and 7 months ago

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JHCovert you should be very, very careful about making a decision like this based on a company’s online marketing brochure. Your mechanical engineer may be right that the heating efficiency of the electrical energy would be 100%, but i’m very surprised he/she gave you this answer without more context.

A modern high-efficiency gas fired radiator system would just barely be behind the electrical in efficiency, somewhere around 90% rated efficiency. So gas to electrical efficiency is not much of a factor.

Instead the major factor is the cost of the energy itself. Electricity is approximately $37 per MBtu, whereas natural gas is approximately $10/MBtu. So even factoring in the slight efficiency improvement of the electrical heat, you’d be paying greater than three times more for any given use of your heater if it’s electric versus gas. That $100 gas bill is $330 instead if you’re electric.

Smokychimp | 6 years and 7 months ago

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So glad to hear you went with the conventional approach, that was a bullet dodged.