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Old 05-06-2024, 02:02 PM   #31300
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Originally Posted by EvoFire View Post
The joy's of owning a house.

Our gas heater MIGHT have just kicked the bucket, if not on it's last legs. It turned off in failsafe last night. We tried lighting it this morning and flames spewed out the sides of the firebox. Our handyman said we might be able to remedy it with a clean and tune up. But it's a 34 year old hydronic system and we probably only got a few years before the boiler needs to be swapped out anyways, the damn thing is hugely inefficient.
I'm really curious about this because we have a similar system. We have a hot water boiler with hydronic baseboards. The alternative would be to install heat pumps with mini split systems and you would get AC in the summer months, but is it really worth the cost versus replacing the boiler?

Did you do any sort of cost comparison?
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