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Recommendations for replacement for a gas baseboard hot water combi system in the US.

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Multiman
Multiman Member Posts: 35
edited December 23 in Gas Heating

It's for a single floor of a three family, with baseboard hot water and domestic hot water. The baseboard system is set up with two separate zones, not separately controlled.

I can do a combi again, or separate it out into a gas hot water heater and a separate gas boiler for the baseboard hot water. I figure I will probably sell this house in at the most 5 years.

I'd like to keep the cost reasonable, and I'm hoping for something that will be trouble-free.

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  • kcopp
    kcopp Member Posts: 4,630

    go w/ a separate water heater. keep the current (weil CGt…if thats what it is) Rewire it. they have a new harness to do and you are set.

    ethicalpaul
  • kcopp
    kcopp Member Posts: 4,630

    Would probably be best to keep this whole conversation as 1 thread vs. 3.

  • Multiman
    Multiman Member Posts: 35

    The problem is the three way valve, now, apparently, which has failed yet again after only two months. And I can now see from the materials left on the shelf that the 3 way valve and the brain have each been replaced several times. The unit is discontinued, surely due to how problematic it was. This unit is only about 11 years old. I have single purpose gas boilers for baseboard heat that are still working perfectly after 30 years, so it's very frustrating.

    Just got a quote for a new Bradford White combi - 9K installed - pick me up off the floor. And when I asked about separating them out, the price was even higher.

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