Home heating with a natural gas hot water (hydronic) heating boiler offers the home-owner the ability to maximizing their energy dollar without sacrificing home comfort. Whether a standard-efficiency conventional boiler or a high efficiency condensing unit, natural gas boilers combine energy savings with outstanding home comfort. And, as with all natural gas appliances, you never have to remember to call for fuel refills since natural gas is always at your home or business regardless of the weather or road conditions.
Technological advances now allow many models of boilers to provide modulating firing and advanced controls which varies the heat output of the boiler to meet the actual heat requirement of your home – no longer do you face overheating of your living spaces because the radiators are too hot for the temperature you really want.
Modern high efficiency condensing boilers incorporate additional heat-transfer surfaces to extract the most heat possible from the natural gas, allowing less than 4% - 7% (depending on the model) to be lost out the venting. So much heat is extracted from the natural gas for use inside the home that many condensing boiler models are vented with approved plastic venting systems – either through a sidewall or vertically through the roof or a chimney cavity. Or, if a standard efficiency boiler is sufficient to meet your needs, many offer the ability to vent either into a lined chimney or out through the wall.
Combine the energy efficiency of a condensing natural gas heating boiler with an indirect water heater to achieve exceptional energy efficiency and performance for both home heating and domestic hot water heating.