Separate thermostat for tenant

My two family brownstone (garden apartment and triplex) has one thermostat for the whole house. I’m thinking of installing a second thermostat for the garden apartment (will be rented out) so that they can control their own heat. Some have advised me that will be easier to just install a second boiler and hook up the apartment’s radiators to this new boiler. Any advice?

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EJR | 8 years and 6 months ago

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The advice to install a second boiler for the tenant’s apartment is probably correct, but there are a couple master plumbers who post often to this blog who can give you a much better answer than I can. I could be wrong, but this seems like of those things that sounds simple in theory, but is actually more difficult (i.e. expensive) in practice.