Kyle Eckert
radiators: positive or negative?
Hello all,In your experience when selling an older home rehab, do you find it a positive or negative to have a radiators as the heating source?Follow up: If you are installing whole-home AC anyway, do you leave the ...
Jeff K.
Boiler vs hot air furnace
Hi BP friends. I had a heating question and was hoping to get collective wisdom on the following:I just bought a 2 unit house with 2 bedrooms each floor. Total house is about 1450 sq ft.Boiler to first floor (accordin...
My Nameish
Missing radiators in older Chicago bedrooms?
Hi, all. I have just started looking at properties and seen several early 1900's places (condos, duplexes, all on South side, in largely original condition) that are heated by radiators, but that have no radiators in ...
Cheng Bin Zhang
Steam Radiator Slow to Heat Up
Hi There,We recently closed on a property in MA that uses steam boilers for heating. We included new boilers into our calculation. However, after the installation, one specific steam radiator is incredibly slow to h...
Joe P.
One radiator doesn't work, but the rest do?
Hi all, hoping someone can help me. My upstairs unit heat is working great, except in one room (middle bedroom).No heat was coming out of it when I got the property, but my heating guy flushed the system, bled the rad...
Chris Johnson
Flipping a house with radiator heating
I'm sure a lot of people have ran into this before.. I'm looking at a property tomorrow for a flip, and the heating in it is the old style radiators. How do you update a house to look modern and keep the radiators? ...
Joey Nakayama
To separate utilities, or not to separate utilities...
My situation:
I own a triplex in Chicago, live on the first floor and rent out the upper two.
Cooking gas is separated for each unit, but a single hot water boiler heats the entire building. This last (...
Sean Relyea
Baseboard Heat Plus Radiators = Problem
Hi all,I recently purchased a 3 unit building that had undergone a full rehab. Most things turned out okay, but the heating systems were a worry during the closing process and that concern has proven justified. Each u...
Nick Gee
STEAM HEAT A DEAL BREAKER ??
SO MY WIFE AND I ARE LOOKING AT AN OLDER HOUSE TO RENOVATE AND POSSIBLY STAY IN... HOWEVER THE HEATING IS STEAM HEAT WITH THE OLD CAST IRON RADIATORS THROUGH OUT THE HOUSE.... FIRST TIME COMING ACROSS THIS HEATING SYS...
Don Colagrossi
Cost of eliminating radiators
Well, after 3 months I finally got into a house in was the high bidder for at a short sale auction. The closing is in August.Question, the entire house has radiators (working condition) and no duct work. Any estim...