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Posted by shawn on October 18, 2006 at 22:41:47:
I have a question I am renovating a house and installing a oil fired boiler. My house is currently 1800 sqaure feet,totally renovated with new insulation,windows etc. I Am planning on a future addition of about another 800 square feet more or less. I went to the local plumbing supply house and asked what size boiler would be right for my home ,they told me a 3 section peerless model . I purchased it and a friend of mine tells me he thinks its too small. I did two online calculations and asked a plumber and the seem to say its ok. I used a calculator on Oil boiler warehouse site which says after my apprx. addition I would need to have 72259.9btu and I downloaded a heat loss program from slant fins site and it says 41,304btu/hr I think that I must be doing something wrong on that one seems kinda low but I am not even close to an expert. My new boilers rating varies from 75 to 131mbh DOE,65 to 114 IBR mbh. I would appreciate any help you can give me
thank you