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2 mils home

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I was invited to fund rasing party at this 2 mils dollars multi stories, 2 bedrooms home in near north Chicago, admiring the tooo archy details and expenive plamsa tvs, arts, furnitures, bathrooms,etc..
Nosy around thinking since seeing the forced air ducts in the cielings and heavy curtains for floor to upper to upper floor windows... Thinking the american way, hot heads,cold feets system. I found the mechical room and to my surprise, radiant floor heat! 3 zones, own thermostat, realy, 4 ways mixing valve, the work...but with huge 75 gals DV water heater on at all times just for heating alone... Another 75 gals water heater for plumbing without hot water return line on this 4 story home..
Asked the homeowner how he liked the comfort of the rfh since his floor are exposed concrete... He said he turned it off because it was TOO expenive to runs! Told him if it was properly designed, it would be the cheapest and most comfortable heat and will need the furnce for supplenant(sp) heat due to massive windows... Told him, change over to wall hung conds boiler will see a world of differnce in heating bills as well the comfort... Also told him that will needs to know how well the insualtions in concrete, esp in garage, etc. He'll think about it....costs a lot of money....looking over his shoulder, one of 4 plamsa tv set... Sigh...

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  • Mike C_3
    Mike C_3 Member Posts: 62
    Great oportunity!!

    Looks like if you play it right you can get a new tv!!

    Mike C.

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  • Constantin
    Constantin Member Posts: 3,796
    That's too funny...

    ... a gourmet heat emitter, a gourmet temp control system, and a fast-food heater. Yeah, the latter might be cheap on install, but the operational costs sure add up over time... and once it gets that far, the homeowners blame what they can see, not the decisions they, or their heating contractor, made in the heat of battle.

    In this case, the good news is that the overall system sounds healthy. A boiler better suited for RFH would be a relatively inexpensive swap to undertake.
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