Boiler Brand

Ken D.

We have been installing New Yorker steel boilers for over 25 years. Gas and oil. Very well made. The welds are a thing of beauty. Never had any problems, in fact, a very reliable unit. We used all the front line burners on them. The FR series, which we sell most of, have combustion efficiencies up to 85% with all kinds of recovery. For an excellent, basic, and trouble free boiler, you can't go wrong with them.

Brian_39

Boiler Brand

Does anyone have any information about the New Yorker brand boiler? I had one contractor tell me they made a very reliable boiler, another contractor told me they were low grade pieces of junk. Does anyone have guidance?

John_82

The New Yorker is a competetively priced Burnham product. It is their price sensative market product. It is an old fashioned boiler. No bells or whistles.

Jaitch

I concour

The New Yorker boiler is a steel boiler. You decide. In my estimates I give a good, better, best option, and the New Yorker is my good option.
Value priced, no bells & whistles, MAY have a shorter life expectancy than a cast boiler (depending on the how, where, when and why it's run), and is a dry base boiler.
The good about it is that it is built by a division of Burnham.
I certainly can't knock it, I've installed plenty.
it really all depends on what you want out of the finished product.

Boilerpro_3

New Yorker also makes cast iron

They are what I use when people are not willing or unable to pay for the good, better or best options. The nat gas chimney vent models are a solid, basic unit. I have seen little reason for going to other models of this same type, unless venting issues (lqwer draft hood) are a concern. My upgrades from this are power vented cast iron, then Triangle Tube Prestige, and then Veissmann. I have not installed a V yet, but I just moved my good better best options up a notch due to the need for greater efficiency.
The basic chimney vent boilers can also have a place as later stages in a staged installation, with higher efficiency models supplying the baseload. In this type of installation, the later stages almost never fire, so efficiency is not much of an issue.

Boilerpro

Boilerpro

Phil_6

NYer

I don't know about "low grade piece of junk" We install them now and then to save a couple of bucks when needed. No problems I can think of. They come from Burnham.

Phil_6

steel

I haven't installed one in ages, but every one that I ever took out was 40-50 years old, so I guess they last a while.