Boilers and furnaces are both used for heating, both with their advantages and disadvantages. Below you can find information on these two systems, or you can go right to finding the system that suits you.
Boilers are water-based heating systems that create steam and pressure to be used for water or space heating. These systems can use a selection of energy sources, from natural gas to oil and electricity.
For space heating, copper pipe radiators are used to circulate the hot water into the room and heat up the space. With the use of thermostats, efficiency can be maximized by regulating when the flow of hot water to each room is shut off or opened up again.
Furnaces use a fuel such as natural gas, oil or electricity to heat up air in a building and circulate it back through the house again. These systems can be programmed to activate or shut off based on the programmed desired temperature of the user.
In addition to there being selection of furnace types, there are also dampers in the duct work to help regulate which rooms get heating, warming more frequently used rooms and less used rooms being less heated to same energy.
