Buderus or Crown Boilers

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installers there have good things to say about them.

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[Ed Pawlowski]

Mark, I talked to a dealer about them today. He's putting in about 40 a year for the past few years. He also said that he does not know of anyone that has saved less than 25% on oil with one compared to a conventional boiler. Most were about 30%.

One dealer quoted $7400 for the Buderus with hot water tank, this guy quoted $7650 for the same type of setup with the System 2000.

I have to dig out the oil bills. I used 230 gallons from April to October, a total of 5 1/2 months, with little of it for heating. Total is about 850 gallons a year. I should be able to save over 200 gallons or $600 a year. Not a great payback, but still pretty good. Something to think about. Ed

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Its good you have the option and forsight to reseasrch everything, I guess usualy they go bad and leak and you are at the installers mercy of what he recomends or is in stock. I looked a little at the 2000 and I see it shuts down fire first to circulate heat but I wonder if other new stuff is not just as good, their advertisment seems a bit optimistic even stating they outdo condensing units. That condensing Buderus with a similar tank seems like its worth more research, I would think controlls are standard stuff. Either way you will find what right and save.