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Another boiler swap in West Roxbury

Our Green Touch  niche has finished another boiler swap in West Roxbury. This dated boiler was better at creating dangerous carbon-monoxide and high utility bills then heating the house.

The MassSave Heat Loan program and the GasNetworks Rebates made the immediate out of pocket expense on this project under $500.00.

The project took 5 days to complete and there was no loss of heat throughout the process.  The only impact to the actual heated space was when we installed the new NEST learning thermostat. We install the NEST stock on all our heating system upgrades. The client choose to install the smaller of the two back plates supplied by NEST.

The boiler we installed was a 95% efficient Buderus which created hot water for both the heating and domestic hot water. We installed a 45 Gallon Superstor Ultra water tank to expand the domestic hot water capacity.

We pride ourselves on efficiently installing efficient systems. We start by installing a wall with plywood to create a solid surface to install the boiler, valves, piping, electric, etc. This makes for an easy and clean install. Further maintenance is made easy with clean and labeled installation.

Green Touch : West Roxbury

West Roxbury is the location of one of our latest heating conversion and weatherization projects. We chose to use blown-in cellulose on the sidewalls and sloped and flat roof cavities and open cell foam in the knee wall space and open roof cavities.The MassSave program covers cellulose and rigid foam work, it does not cover any spray foam; in heating conversion and weatherization projects.
These projects fall under our small projects division “Green Touch”. The intention of this project is to lower the dependence on fossil fuels.

Our modus operandi ?
We used the MassSave program for the free energy audit and heat loan.
The client first scheduled the energy audit to make them eligible for the 75% rebate (up to $2,000).
The client chose to use the Gas Networks rebate instead of National Grid’s boiler options, choosing to replace their current oil-fired boiler with a Buderus 97% efficient boiler.We removed the existing oil and tank with the help of Tanks-A-Lot, scrapped the old boiler and hot water heater.

The picture below on the left shows the old boiler and the picture on the right is the new Buderus boiler.

As always, stay tuned for updates !!