Are you finishing the winter with a boiler that is on its last legs, or building a new home that needs a heating system?
Then you may want to consider a new boiler installation for your North Salt Lake City home. There a few steps every homeowner needs to take prior to boiler installation, and one of the most important is correctly sizing your boiler for your home. There are some common rules-of-thumb that people go by to size a heater for their home, but rules of thumb are usually pretty genera and may leave you with an inadequately sized system. The experts at Design Comfort can help you properly size your new boiler, install it, then maintain and repair it as needed, so if you are ready for a new boiler system, call us today!
Correct Sizing
To correctly size any heating system, including your boiler, a heat load calculation needs to be performed. This calculation takes into account a number of factors, including:
- The orientation of your home
- Floorplan
- Number of rooms and floors
- Type of insulation, windows and doors
- Level of insulation
- Daytime heat gain
- Number of occupants
- Square footage of your home
What Happens with a Wrong-Sized Boiler?
When you have a wrong-sized boiler, more problems can develop than just having an uncomfortable home. If your boiler is too big for your home, you run the risk of experiencing overheating your home, which can lead to short cycling as the system turns on and off constantly. Short-cycling can prematurely age your system and components, which can lead to malfunction and breakdown.
Conversely, a boiler that is too small for your home will run constantly as it tries to achieve the set temperature on your thermostat. Constantly operating will also prematurely age your system, and it will cause your boiler to use a great deal of fuel, which can get extremely costly.
If you are ready for a new boiler installation in North Salt Lake City, call the people you can trust: Design Comfort.
