RicM from HVACTV.com thanks you all

Ric Murray

All:

I would like to thank you all for your help and advice during my recent travails with central heat. I promised to report the outcome, and here it is. After an epic battle between the forces of good and evil a white knight who prefers to remain nameless stepped forward and installed a state of the art Hydro-Air system. A Vitodens 200 boiler with outdoor reset that appears to be smarter than I am, a Vitocell 100 hot water tank, and a First fan coil unit. The boiler is completely silent and with the fan coil set on the lowest speed the only sound is a very slight, breathy sound of air in the duct work. The oversized hot air furnaces were at least 7 times noiseier, between the roar of the (oversized) heat exhanger, the booming of the ductwork as the pulses of scorched air caused the metal ducts to pop as they expended and contracted, and the whistle of the air moving about 3 times faster while the furnace cycled about 3-4 times to the Vitodens 1. Not cheap I'll tell you, but love seldom is, and I have found the system I have been looking for for 8 years. Now if can talk Karen into letting me rip down the ceiling downstairs and put in a radiant loop under the kitchen and bath I will be in wet heat Nirvana! Thanks again to all!

Ric