Welcome! Here are the website rules, as well as some tips for using this forum.
Need to contact us? Visit https://heatinghelp.com/contact-us/.
Click here to Find a Contractor in your area.

Heat loss by usage?

124»

Comments

  • Tim McElwain
    Tim McElwain Member Posts: 4,644
    Robert I enjoyed your article it brought back memory's of my old instructor at the gas company. Back in those days Manual J as such did not exist but we had similar ways to determine heat loss.

    My instructor would typically take the customers old gas bills or oil bills and with a degree day analysis come up with a pretty close number for predicted heat loss.

    I my area Rhode Island most of the oil and gas boilers were always oversized. So it was important when doing a replacement to come up with an accurate heat loss.

    Thanks for the memories!
  • Gordy
    Gordy Member Posts: 9,546
    edited April 2016
    I hate it when ma, and pa fight. Usage is a direct result on what is being burned. How you configure the data to compensate for boiler over sizing, and emitter over, or under sizing is another matter. Which leads to a heat loss. I see it as checks, and balances.

    If ci is the replacement not so much of an issue. If a mod/con is of choice the devil is in the details.

Categories