{"id":1075,"date":"2021-12-06T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2021-12-03T20:24:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T01:24:35","slug":"lets-talk-boilers-new-heating-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/heating-service\/lets-talk-boilers-new-heating-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Talk Boilers as a New Heating Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/boiler-residential-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"boiler-residential\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/boiler-residential-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/boiler-residential.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>When you\u2019re considering getting a new heating system for your home, you\u2019ll probably be looking into a forced-air heater of some kind: an electric furnace, a gas furnace, a heat pump. These heaters all raise the temperature of the air and then send that air through ductwork to the rooms. If your home already has ductwork, then you\u2019ll almost certainly will be looking into a forced-air heater.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The other major option is a boiler. Boilers don\u2019t use ducts, instead sending heated water to terminal points (often baseboard heaters or in-floor elements, although some use traditional radiators) to radiate heat indoors. You may be interested in a boiler system if you are building a new home or doing major renovations on one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So let\u2019s talk about getting a boiler for a home, if that\u2019s a possibility. Boilers have several tremendous benefits that make them worth considering if you\u2019re in a situation where they\u2019re a viable choice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3><b>Boilers have high energy efficiency<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Water is a more energy-efficient medium for heat transfer than air. That\u2019s a fancy way of saying it takes less energy to move heat from water than from air. You can demonstrate this for yourself by placing your hand in both a stream of hot air and a pan of hot water. Which gives you more heat, faster? The water, of course. This principle applies to heating a home: a boiler consumes less energy to provide a house with the same level of heat that a forced-air system does, and can save large amounts of money over its service life.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Boilers make for less dusty and pollutant-filled air<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furnaces and heat pumps blow air through ductwork, and this stirs around dust and other particles in the house. Plenty of particulates are inside the ducts already, so each time the heater comes on, these particles get blasted out into the air. Boilers don\u2019t move air at all\u2014they radiate heat rather than blow it around\u2014and this contributes to a less dusty house with cleaner, healthier air.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Boilers have longer service lives than most heating systems<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because boilers have few mechanical parts, they don\u2019t suffer from the same levels of wear and tear as other heating systems. You can expect a gas-powered boiler to last for more than 20 years if it has regular maintenance, which is anywhere from 5 to 10 years longer than other types of heating systems. They also have fewer repair needs because of this lack of mechanical strain.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Boilers create more even, cozier heating<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Radiating heat rather than blowing it around makes heating spread more evenly through a space. A boiler can help a home avoid cold spots this way. Also\u2014and this is more subjective\u2014many people find the heat from boilers to feel <em>cozier<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em>than that from forced-air systems. It\u2019s like the warmth of the sun on a summer day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019re curious about <\/span><a href=\"\/heating\/boilers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">boilers in Brighton, MI<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, call our experts today. We\u2019ll make your home happy!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>First Choice Heating &amp; Cooling. <\/b><a href=\"\/contact\/schedule-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>If your home had a voice, it would call \u2026 First Choice!<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boilers have several tremendous benefits that make them worth considering if you\u2019re in a situation where they\u2019re a viable choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[104,103],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heating-service","tag-boilers","tag-heating-system-installation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}