For Home Owners

If you are a homeowner:

Most homeowners tend to ignore their heating system until it breaks. This is a common mistake but one that is generally encouraged by fuel supply companies.

Smart homeowners realize that fuel supply companies are in the business of selling fuel, not in the business of saving fuel. Whether you need an annual cleaning and tune up, an equipment repair or upgrade, Energy Application Associates, can help you.

Quickie boiler cleanings that are sold as part of fuel company’s service contracts are seldom through enough to assure that your boiler is operating at maximum efficiency. It only takes one turn of a screw to raise your fuel consumption 10% with no gain in comfort.

Care of Existing Heating Systems

• Study and evaluation of your existing heating system.
• Through maintenance services to keep your system operating at maximum efficiency.

Repair of Existing Heating Systems

• Repair or replacement of failed equipment. Including:
  
  • Boiler Replacement with state of the art equipment
  • Pump Replacement
• Diagnosis of recurring system failures

Equipment Upgrades

• Boiler upgrades for reduced fuel consumption
• Boiler upgrades to change oil fired boilers to gas fueled boilers.
• Inexpensive control upgrades that make failure diagnosis easier.
• Inexpensive add-on energy efficiency modules to reduce fuel consumption.
• Automatic system failure notification devices.
• Basement flooding warning systems.
• High performance thermostats that improve comfort, reduce fuel consumption, and can even allow remote system control.

These upgrades can make you more comfortable and reduce the amount of fuel you burn for heating. They will generally improve your home.

If you are a homeowner planning an addition or remodeling your house:

Any change in the design of your house, such as replacing a window with a door or adding a bay window to a kitchen changes the heat load of your heating system. Most people believe that adding more zones to their heating systems will save fuel. Actually, the adding more zones to an existing heating system will usually increase energy consumption!

Radiant floors have the potential to greatly reduce the energy requirements for heating, but many of the radiant floor heating systems that are installed use more fuel for heating than their predecessors did.

Once you have a plan for remodeling you need to review the heating requirements for the space, before you start construction. With luck the architects did their job and provided a heat load schedule for the revised house plan, if not you will need get one. This is a service we can provide if the architects fail to do so.

For further information on this requirement see the “For New Home Buyers” section of this website and look under “Having a custom home built?”
We are often called upon to solve a heating problem in a new addition the first winter after the remodel is finished. The time to modify your heating system is before the walls are painted and the floors are refinished. It is much less expensive to make the necessary changes to the heating system before starting construction.

Energy Application Associates is happy to offer homeowners the opportunity to integrate the necessary heating modifications with the remodeling plans before construction commences.

For Homeowners who want to do it themselves:

If you are the type of homeowner who wants to do everything yourself, we can provide you with the tools to do the job yourself or with your favorite plumber.

Our services can include everything from providing the specifications for the equipment needed for your job: right up to shipping you a complete ready to install Modular Hybrid Hydronic Heating Plant designed for your specific house.