My boiler is well over twenty years old, my spouse and I purchased our house almost twenty years ago and the boiler wasn’t brand new! I have been very diligent about replacing air filters every month and scheduling professional tune-ups every fall, the boiler has been beautifully reliable, but we’ve dealt with only a couple of minor repairs over the last two decades.
It continues to supply dependable heating every winter.
However, the system is well-past its expected lifespan. The boiler can’t last forever, then eventually it’s going to malfunction and not be worth fixing. The boiler will most likely fail when it’s working the hardest, right in the middle of the winter. I don’t want to be in a rush to get a new boiler installed while in a December blizzard. When the temperature drops into the negative digits, my friend and I can’t go without heat. There’s the very real problem of water pipes frigid and bursting. I would prefer to be proactive and schedule heater upgrade while in the summer, plus, there are new boilers that offer much higher efficiency levels, then a new heater will particularly reduce our yearly energy bills. Those savings will help to hastily salvage the initial cost. I would like to take advantage of some current features, such as adjustable-speed technology, zone control and Wi-Fi connectivity, but our boiler is a two-period model that is only capable of running at high or low speeds. The best models now automatically adjust output in one percent increments someplace between forty and one hundred percent capacity, by operating at lower speeds or longer cycles, the boiler uses less energy, makes less noises and eliminates temperature swings.