gennady
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And, if you had children around, would you prefer a radiator that had a section that was 212+ degrees, or something that was maybe 120-degrees. Which one would you like to sit next to? Water verses steam also likely means you can actually use more of the room, and not get boiled. If you're putting in 212+ steam, and your load is low, like most of the season, how often does it need to cycle verses running more constantly at a much lower temperature. Commercial steam? Maybe a good solution, residential, not.
Why you discriminating against elderly people and cats? They can be burnt by hot radiator too. And what about a cup of tea? What if children are around cup of tea of 200F. They can get burnt too.
Steam is around for a quite a few years and i still have to hear about children burnt by hot radiator.
Regarding short cycling of the boilers, it has nothing to do with media, more with sizing of the boiler, and i had seen same amount of short cycling hot water boilers as steam ones. Of course modulating boilers work better, but they always over sized, zoned and installed without primary secondary piping. Few contractors know how to install and set up them.
Half of my business comes from fixing other people installations, and I see terrible nightmarish installations all the time.
My point is that properly installed and set up steam system is on par with properly set up and installed high efficiency hot water system. How i know? I had done this.
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