You can expect your boiler to heat your home or to heat the water you use in your home.
You may have one of these devices installed and functioning at your place of businesses.
You can find them in almost every business and residential structure in the United Kingdom and the biggest part of Europe.
What makes one boiler more popular than another one, possibly the manufacturer of the device? Different manufacturers earn reputations for producing equipment that is dependable and cost effective.
Some manufacturers earn the reputation of always producing good pieces and others earn reputations for selling products that are nothing but trouble.
A boiler may be fueled by heating oil, electricity, mains gas, or propane.
The biggest consideration in the type of fuel that the device you choose needs is the availability of that type of fuel.
Mains gas is typically not available to people who live in the rural regions, but people that live in the larger towns and cities can easily get this type of fuel.
Propane is more apt to be used in remote areas than the mains gas is and in cities the propane is rarely ever used to fuel a boiler.
Electricity is available for the majority of all homes that have these devices whether the home is located in a rural area or in a city.
Heating oil was at one time the most popular of all types of fuels used in these devices, but today heating oil is being replaced with other fuels that are less expensive and burn cleaner.
A commercial boiler is generally used in large plants and large complexes.
The only differences between the commercial versions of these devices and the residential versions are the size of the item and the amount of heated air or hot water they can supply.
Some of these devices are designed to heat the water that will be used by the occupants of the structure while other versions will heat the water used for the structure and will also heat the air to regulate the temperature.
It can be very convenient to have one appliance performing the job of two appliances.
This type of device will also save you money in the long run.
The antiquated version of these machines that had a holding tank placed in the attic of the building to hold the cold water supply is quickly being phased out of existence.
The newer versions of these devices are more capable of providing adequate amounts of hot water with less inconvenience and with less space needed to house them.
There are even versions of these items that need no tank to store the cold water or the heated water in.
These types of systems draw their cold water supply directly from the main water supply entering the building and they produce heated water when it is required in the different areas of the building.
There is not a tank of heated water waiting to be drained, and the maintenance on these systems is far easier to do.