Found: company that installs hydronic electric radiant plus cooling

Very interested to see how they would do this without a full renovation.
Installing Radiant without a renovation sounds like a headache alone but always love to hear their process!

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eg66 | 1 year and 3 months ago

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850 mph do you mind sharing who is doing your install? We are leaning more and more toward retaining steam radiators with a new boiler (or in a dream scenario hydronic radiators) + non hyperheat handlers for shoulder season, a/c, and some small, sunny rooms that don’t need a full radiator. Appreciate your intel it’s been helpful.

jrs84o | 1 year and 3 months ago

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I have NOT chosen my contractor yet. The guys who did my original install- 10 years ago – was Chris Stewart, who has unfortunately passed away.

I’m only at the planning stage for my new configuration now, and was working with an engineer who was researching my chimney flue situation. He is Ken Chen, at Kon Ho Lee Engineering in Bay Ridge 917-913-3688. They are not strictly HVAC people.. so may not be exactly who you need.

Guest User | 1 year and 3 months ago

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850… you generally have enough room to use your old chimney as a chase for your vent and fresh air for a HE boiler, especially if you are using polypro as your venting material

workisfun | 1 year and 3 months ago

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We have 7 Myson Decor flat panel radiators (hydronic), that I got from Utica Plumbing and Heating. Each one has its own loop to the HE combi boiler. We run them at 130*. Very happy with them. Various sizes and configurations.

jrs84o | 1 year and 3 months ago

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@GreenwoodGoblin Just my two cents… I know I’ve stressed this to a fault, but IMHO it’s absolutely the most important thing to understand before you choose a HVAC system:

Have someone come out and determine the heat envelope of your property.

If a brownstone does not have the proper insulation, there is no way to fix it inexpensively (and most likely without replacing windows) and you will end up burning double the spac’ed BTUs to feel comfortable.

We found this out the hard way.. we installed 40k BTU on each floor— but really need 100k BTU because of heat loss.

Aircon in summer is no problem as the air handlers remove the humidity easily cooling the rooms… we never operate the heat pumps in “cooling mode.”

My heat pumps run 10-12 hours a day on my Parlor level from Dec-Mar because we have very bad insulation AND they NEVER reach the set point… so all the added inverter technology simply goes to waste and the units burn about $10/day, 4 kwatts/hr electric.

That’s why I’m going with a 2stage Forced Air system which will simply blow gobs of hot air without any sophi sticated controls.

Upstairs, we only run the heat pumps 3-4 hours a day before we retire, as we prefer it a bit cooler while we sleep and simply turn the whole system off, which is not optimal as everything needs to heat back up in the room every evening.

In any case, I have not heard of anyone else using a two type Mechanical heating system here in Brooklyn, although I know it’s becoming a bit more common to put a heat pump on to a ducted gas or oil system for an added boost in the dead of winter or conversely, as you suggest, heat in the shoulder seasons.

annissa12 | 1 year and 3 months ago

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@GreenwoodGoblin You are more than welcome to come see the new electric radiant heat/cooling system when it’s finished (April?). I think what I’m doing is lots easier when everything’s being torn up but I think there are ways to do it without so much mess (ie slim wall-hung radiators rather than the fan-coil radiators hidden in floor vents). The brilliant Itai and Chester of BK Climate Solutions can talk you though it when you’re ready. Their website is under construction now but there’s a phone number on it. And my work # is 631-742-8045 if you want a tour. (The house is in the south Slope,)

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Annissa-
Looking to doing heat pump originated hydronic in my brownstone. Assuming you had a winter with it at this point? How did it go??