Or increase the quantity or quality of the insulation is probably the most direct way to reduce heating and cooling transfer through the building exterior envelope. Reserve studies can easily be structured to test the feasibility of added insulation in the common areas in condominium associations. Foam insulation in high R-value is to see increased use in new construction. Retrofitting existing buildings in the specific case. Cold air infiltration through windows, doors and roof and wall penetration can be as high as 30 percent of the total heat loss of the condominium / HOA units. Sealing these sites will pay off and cost little.
Replacing leaky windows with narrow thermal units effective they could mean a significant initial investment, but it will pay off in the long run. Community manager recently described to me some simple steps to insulate the food pipe running from the boiler in the open on their buildings. BTU's, which used to be zipping out of the tube walls in the open now going into the buildings' baseboard radiation. He predicts a significant drop in fuel consumption. If you are looking condominium community in this direction, it will have to pay a professional to explore your options and payoffs before any job.
For individual plants in a homeowner units there are some basic lines of defense against wasting fuel. Annual servicing is required - akin to changing the oil in your car. "Consumer" Your heating oil is the oil burner. Rich some money for his care and maintenance. Your oil burner assembly of the fuel pump, fan, fuel hoses and nozzles with electric transformer at the top, all set in front of the boiler or furnace. The pump delivers fuel to the correct pressure, which when mixed with air, spraying a fine mist allows you to burn most efficiently when the spark ignites the transformer, sprays out of nozzles. Generated heat is transferred to the heat exchanger, in which case the boiler is a nest of chambers, or a bottle of water, like air chamber of warm air into the furnace.
As part of the annual check-ups, your technician for heating will change the oil filter, check the nozzle, the vacuum in the combustion chamber, and check flame detection (security) control. Ask him to make a stack of checks for CO2, stack temperature and the overall effectiveness of every other year. If the fuel is natural gas or propane, the range of control efficiency of the smaller and, to some extent, easier. Complete combustion of gas is important if you allocate all of their BTU's.
Incomplete combustion can also generate carbon dioxide and other potentially harmful products. Another result of incomplete combustion of lower temperatures in your exhaust pipe, which will reduce production and efficiency. Heating technicians will check the work of their flames head for complete combustion, as well as downstream safety valve operation. If you are contemplating putting in a reserve study in the near future, consider including as many of these recommendations as may seem appropriate.
Robert J. Burns is a principal with Burns Associates-Engineers. The company offers a capital reserve fund studies and development studies for condominium associations and transitional Hoa. Engineering consultancy services for building and web services offered. Mr. Burns is a licensed professional engineer and CAI credentialed reservist.
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