Heating Before & After Photos

How do you bring an old hot water heating system that uses cast iron radiators into the 21st century? Do like this client and call Alber Service Company for a 95% efficient Bradford-White Brute Combi boiler. This boiler replaces and old 65% efficient cast iron boiler so it is going to cut the heating bills by 30%. But it also produces domestic hot water for showering, dishes, laundry, etc. So the hot water heating bills will also drop by 30%.

And comfort is improved because it uses outdoor rest. This means the water to the radiators only gets as hot as needed to offset the current conditions outside. The old system would deliver 180-degree water even if it was 55-degrees outside. This resulted in the radiators getting too hot and the room temperature soaring above the thermostat set point. Not good!

Outdoor reset also adds savings to already 30% savings by minimizing back loss. Back loss describes what happens in back of the radiator when it is pushed up against a cold outside wall. By only heating the radiator as much as needed for the conditions at any given moment, the amount of heat driven through the wall to the outside is greatly reduced. 

Oh, yeah. And it looks great! Like a little NASA science project.

The furnace in this old house had run for 42-years! That's a remarkably long life for a furnace. It was a Trane furnace manufactured by American Standard in 1983. And while it had led a long and productive life, it had also wasted thousands of dollars gas because it was only 60% efficient. That's not good.

The client elected to replace it with another American Standard furnace but his one is 97% efficient. It has two other great features: it is a two-stage furnace and it has a variable speed blower. Two-stage means it can deliver 100% or 50% of its output depending on how cold it is outside. For 75% of the winter it will run at 50% and deliver nearly constant, gentle heat that really improves winter comfort. The variable speed blower uses 66% less electricity than the old furnace. That saves money n the summer as well as the winter since the blower is also used to deliver air conditioning.

You'll notice we turned the furnace 90% so it doesn't face the wall. Regular maintenance will be much easier now. And it's placed on plastic feet to lift it up off the concrete floor so the bottom doesn't rust. Attention to detail matters! We try to think of everything when proposing a new system.

This old house needed a new furnace badly. The chimney had collapsed and the inefficient furnace couldn't operate safely without it. Plus, the second floor was always hot in the summer because the blower in the furnace couldn't deliver proper air flow. The solution was an American Standard two-stage variable speed furnace. It is 97% efficient so it saves a boatload of money in the winter. And the blower uses 70% less electricity than the old blower while delivering adequate air flow for second floor cooling. It qualified the homeowner for rebates and 0% financing from his local utility. It also qualifies for a 2025 Federal Tax Credit of $600. Alber Service Company works with all utility incentive programs so it's easy to say, "YES", when we present you with the solution to your problems!

This homeowner wanted to get rid of his old oil-fired boiler. It was loud, sooty, and made the basement very hot because it was so poorly insulated and ran very hot. Since his office is in the basement, he wanted a system that was very quiet and very clean. After considering several options, the client selected a Bradford-White Brute Combi Boiler. This system heats both his house (he uses copper fin-tube baseboard) as well as his domestic hot water. It is 95% efficient and uses natural gas for heat which is much less expensive than heating oil. The system also melts the snow off his front steps and walkway!

WOW! What a difference!

After one of our BPI Certified Energy Experts performed an Energy Audit on this home in West Deptford NJ, it was evident to the home owners how they could achieve their goals of reducing fuel consumption and lowering the electric bill.

The home owners chose to replace their old furnace and air conditioner with a new high efficiency unit from Bryant. 

Air sealing and insulating the attic and garage with expanding polyurethane foam and then blowing in trusoft cellulose insulation was done to make a room above the garage more comfortable.

The energy saving improvements that we made to this home increased the energy efficiency by 21% and it qualified for $3,000 in Rebates from the state of NJ and 0% Financing.