| Radiant underfloor heating is one of the greatest | | | | mixing device will probably work very well if |
| ways to heat your home or business. One of the | | | | installed correctly. The installed correctly part is |
| best methods to use is water for radiant heating. | | | | the problem. Through the years I have had to fix |
| If the only fuel you have available happens to be | | | | many heating systems that did not work properly |
| fuel oil than you still have a good opportunity to | | | | because they were installed incorrectly. All the |
| get a great heating system by using an oil fired | | | | correct parts were there but the installer ran out |
| hot water boiler. | | | | of knowledge when it came time to put the |
| Oil fired hot water boilers are a great way to | | | | pieces to the puzzle together. |
| power you underfloor hot water heating system. | | | | Your oil boiler will work fine with your radiant heat |
| The trick to getting the boiler to work the best | | | | system if you just remember a few things. Keep |
| with your system is to know how to tie it to the | | | | your boiler water temperature over 140F. Use a |
| radiant heating part of your system. Because of | | | | mixing device to lower your water temperatures |
| the way many oil boilers need to run there are a | | | | to the temperature needed to heat the space. |
| few things that you need to remember when | | | | There are a few condensing oil boilers on the |
| using an oil fired boiler with radiant heat. | | | | market, these are very costly and it will be to |
| Most oil boilers need to run at higher | | | | your benefit to use a cheaper boiler and mix the |
| temperatures then you need for most underfloor | | | | water. Get the highest non-condensing oil boiler |
| heating systems. Because of this you will need to | | | | that you can find. Make sure that you have hired |
| install a mixing device between your boiler and the | | | | a competent installer that has experience installing |
| heating system. This mixing device can be as | | | | radiant heating system powered by oil. |
| simple as a three way mixing valve that will mix | | | | By following a few simple rules you can have a |
| the cooler return water with the supply water or | | | | very good heating system that uses oil efficient |
| as sophisticated as a variable speed circulator that | | | | and does a very good job of making you |
| will control the injection of the hot water into the | | | | comfortable all winter long. |
| heating system. The bottom line is that any | | | | |