When Can You Turn the Heat Off in New Brunswick?
Short answer: there isn’t a real pause here. New Brunswick’s heating season runs about ten months, and the only quiet stretch, July, sits low enough on…
When Can You Turn the Heat Off in Manitoba?
In Manitoba, July is the closest thing to a real pause. Winnipeg’s combined heating and cooling degree-day total for that month runs about 91, on the…
When Can You Turn the Heat Off in British Columbia?
Vancouver’s quietest month is August, when heating and cooling demand together add up to about 45 degree-days at Vancouver Int’l A, the reference station…
When Can You Turn the Heat Off in Alberta?
In Alberta, there’s no month when the furnace can be walked away from for good.
The Circulator: The Pump That Moves the Heat
A circulator pump is a small electric pump, usually about the size of a large fist, mounted on the boiler or on the near-boiler piping.
How Zoning Works, and Why One Room Stays Cold
One room stays cold while the rest of the house is fine because that room belongs to its own loop, and something specific to that loop, a stuck valve, a…
Boiler or Furnace: What Actually Differs
The short answer: a boiler heats water and sends it through pipes to radiators or baseboard units, while a furnace heats air and pushes it through ducts…
Boiler Types: Combi, System and Conventional
Every boiler sold in the United States fits into two separate categories at once: how it moves heat around the house (its layout) and what it burns to…
Sizing a Boiler: Why Bigger Is the Usual Mistake
Boiler sizing means matching the unit’s heat output to the actual heat loss of the house, calculated room by room, not to whatever BTU rating was stamped…
How to Bleed a Radiator, and When Not To
Bleed a hot-water radiator when the top stays cool while the bottom heats up.