The decarbonization of heating hot water (HHW) systems is an important and necessary step in the building industry’s effort to combat climate change. Existing heating hot water systems can be ...

Practical experience has demonstrated that conversion from electrical to hot water space heating and domestic hot water (DHW) can be expected to reduce the energy cost for heating by more than 20% in ...

WITH THE DAWNING of the New Year, I hope this column finds you and yours in good health and looking forward to a prosperous 2004. I’ve decided to look into my crystal ball and tell you what I see ...

There are many options to consider when designing or replacing the domestic hot water systems for a structure or development. But what to use? Tanks or tankless and do I use one for each individual ...

When Terry McIlveen built his home in Maine in 1997, he made the unusual choice to install radiant floor heating. “People thought I was nuts,” he says. However, since that time, radiant floor heat has ...

Geraldine has over a decade of experience writing within the home improvement sector. Additionally, she has unique first-hand renovation experience as the previous owner of a house-flipping business.

Last month I wrote about early steam heating and how experimentation led to discovery, which led to new products or piping techniques. This time I will be writing about the early days of gravity hot ...

The decision to convert from steam to hot-water heat was an easy one for Steve LaFlamme, president and CEO of Oneida Real Estate Services. In all, LaFlamme has chosen to replace steam with hot-water ...

Worried that your water heater needs replacing? Hot water heating systems are essential to modern living, but they're complicated and don't last forever. You can look for a few tell-tale signs that it ...

• Hot-water usage: Since the more hot water you use the more money you save with a solar heating system, large households will save a lot more by going solar. For example, a family of four will save a ...

Conventional district heating systems are generally designed around the load. However, an alternate approach would be to design around potential heat sources, including the waste heat from power ...