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I wouldn't think that whole unit would cost $6000, I saw one online a couple years ago for $4000 and it included the controls. I though heat pumps and geo would work great with radiant heat
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$6K!!! That sounds like a rip. An entire, top of the line, Buderus 200KBTU gas boiler is only $3K. What the hell are you replacing?
The unit is called a Munchkin. I don't have all the specs right now, but rest assured I don't put out that kind of money without doing a lot of research and getting several opinions.
This is the unit I have:
http://www.radiantheatproducts.com/images/Munchkin%20boiler%20commercial%20pic%202.jpg
I wouldn't think that whole unit would cost $6000, I saw one online a couple years ago for $4000 and it included the controls. I though heat pumps and geo would work great with radiant heat
I also just looked online and entire Munchkin boilers are in the neighborhood of $4K. And it sounds like you only need to replace the coil, not the entire boiler? To use that tired old phrase, "Wow, just wow."
They are certainly fancy boilers, though. Lot's of stainless. Very high efficiency. My Buderus has only an 85 or 90% rating (can't remember which).
Best of luck on your heating plant project. I know a little bit about how you feel. I bought a new house and the 10 year old Weil McLain puked all over the floor two months later on Thanksgiving day when it was 20 degrees out. That's why I now have a Buderus. I could have replaced just the cast iron boiler for $1.5K, but for that much money I wanted a new, good quality boiler and so paid the $3K for the Buderus. And then a month later when it got properly cold out the plant couldn't heat the house because the heating coil in the air handler (hydronic system) had too small of a ton-rating. I have no idea how the previous owners actually stayed warm, but I think the antique cast iron cookstove in the kitchen was what you would call a clue
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. Basically the people that installed the plant were idiots and the people living there before us were idiots for not properly fixing it their first winter there. However it works great now and the cookstove has gone from EDH (every day heating
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) to SHTF or for-fun only. It is really neat, though, the darn thing will actually heat the entire house.