{"id":673,"date":"2012-10-01T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polarbearairconditioning.com\/blog\/?p=673"},"modified":"2012-09-28T14:05:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T18:05:05","slug":"washington-dc-heating-question-what-exactly-are-high-efficiency-boilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polarbearairconditioning.com\/blog\/heating\/washington-dc-heating-question-what-exactly-are-high-efficiency-boilers\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington DC Heating Question: What Exactly Are High Efficiency Boilers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

You have already read plenty about how energy costs are rising. You know plenty well that heating your Washington DC\u00a0home<\/a> is a substantial expense, and that the cost of running a boiler is constantly on the rise.<\/p>\n

But as technology has gotten better, so have boilers<\/a> become more efficient at providing heat. It stands to reason that a more efficient boiler is one that costs less to run…but what does “efficient” really mean in the context of boilers? What makes a boiler “high efficiency”?<\/p>\n

\u00a0What Is a High Efficiency Boiler?<\/h3>\n

All boilers are rated according to a standardized system of rating efficiency, called the Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency (AFUE). Essentially, this rating tells you how much heat energy is produced by a boiler compared to how much energy it draws. The higher a boiler’s AFUE rating, the more efficient it is.<\/p>\n

For a boiler to be called high efficiency, it must carry an AFUE of at least 90%. For basis of comparison, older systems carry an AFUE of about 70%, while mid-efficiency systems run at about 82%.<\/p>\n

In addition, a high efficiency system has a second heat exchanger for capturing and condensing flue gases, as well as a closed combustion system.<\/p>\n

These three things — an AFUE of 90% or above, condensing flue gases and closed combustion – define a high efficiency boiler.<\/p>\n

The initial investment in a high efficiency boiler can be costly, but the savings over time in heating bills make it well worth the expense.<\/p>\n

If you would like a high efficiency boiler installed in your Washington DC\u00a0home<\/a>, give Polar Bear<\/a>\u00a0a call today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But as technology has gotten better, so have boilers become more efficient at providing heat. It stands to reason that a more efficient boiler is one that costs less to run…but what does “efficient” really mean in the context of boilers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[133,103,129,209,132],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarbearairconditioning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarbearairconditioning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarbearairconditioning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarbearairconditioning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarbearairconditioning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarbearairconditioning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarbearairconditioning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarbearairconditioning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarbearairconditioning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarbearairconditioning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}