Posted by Harold Kestenholz - Hydronic Network on August 31, 2000 at 15:58:49:
In Reply to: what's the best oil fired steam boiler to buy posted by Charles Hunt on August 31, 2000 at 13:14:02:
If you ask around you will come to a very definite conclusion as to which boiler is the best. The answer is always that: It is the boiler that a friend in the business thinks is the best. From long experience, I find that the best boiler is the one that the person who is installing it has had the most long-term success with. The particular brand name of which one that is, changes as often as the number of installing businesses in the town. Every major boiler manufacturer now has over half a century of confronting design problems. The boilers come from supply houses in the local area who will stop selling boilers that make a bad reputation for themselves, so ask around for which boilers have been sold by whom for the longest time.