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Boiler Repair and Installation For Your Home!

Steve Basso Plumbing, Heating & A/C is your one-stop shop for boiler installation, repair and maintenance. Did you know that most old burners operate at as little as 50% efficiency, and the average New Haven and Fairfield County home burner in place today operates at only 60% efficiency? New boilers installed by our company offer an 85% efficiency rating, which can often pay for the cost of the new one in just 2 years from money saved on fuel.

Boilers are available in two efficiency ranges: Around 80 percent for standard conventional boilers, and percentages in the 90s for energy-efficient condensing units. The dividing line between these efficiency ranges is based on the boilers ability to withstand condensing flue gases. Condensing flue gases, which occur in high-efficiency boilers, require special design considerations to tolerate the corrosive effects of the condensate.  Boiler efficiency is defined as how much of the heating value of the fuel is being converted to useful heat.

Condensing boilers absorb more heat from combustion gases, allowing the water vapor to condense and therefore providing increased efficiency. Any hydrocarbon fuel burned in a boiler, whether it is propane, natural gas, or fuel oil, produces water vapor during the combustion process. Conventional boilers are non-condensing boilers with materials that cannot tolerate the corrosive properties of condensing flue or stack gases.

Conventional boilers operate around 80 percent efficiency, compared to over 90 percent efficiency for condensing efficient boilers. Other factors also influence boiler efficiency, including boiler shell losses, piping losses, and cycling losses.

Boiler Brands

Steve Basso recommends and installs Viessmann boilers because of their superior design, technology and functionality. They are very energy efficient and built to last. Viessmann boilers are perfect for running radiant heating systems, and with built-in controls, there are no extra controls needed to run low temp and high temp systems together.

Energy Kinetics provides the best pressure vessel and the best warranty in the industry: A lifetime limited warranty and a 10 year labor allowance for residential pressure vessels. The warranty may even be transferred to a new owner within the first five years of the installation.

Burnham offers the industry's widest range of hot water or steam, cast iron or steel, oil, gas, propane, or solid fuel residential boilers.

If you are looking for a New Haven and Fairfield County boiler repair contractor, please call us today at (203) 335-0224 or (203) 852-7144 or complete our online request form for an in-home consultation.