High Efficiency Condensing Oil Boilers

Upgrading your oil boiler to a high efficiency condensing type is a great way to make financial and CO² savings for your house. Boilers need to be changed every 15 years or so, even with regular maintenance as they have moving parts, a natural lifespan and in the past 15 years, many engineering updates have been made. We use Firebird oil boilers as they have a great name and knowledge of boiler applications in Ireland. Firebird were acyually the first company to SEDBUK "A" rate a condensing oil boiler. SEI are offering grants of €800 to everyone upgrading to a high efficiency boiler. and having the compulsary after works BER cert issued. To recieve this grant, you need to install the high efficiency boiler, upgrade your central heating controls and have a BER cert isued for your home after the works are complete. We can easily preform all this for you in  two days. To read about the grants, click here.

Firebird Boilers is one of Ireland's and the UK's leading manufacturers of quality high efficient oil fired boilers. The company has built its reputation over many years for reliability and excellent levels of after sales service. Efforts to safeguard the environment by reducing domestic levels of energy consumption has led the company to design the unique range of ENVIROMAX HIGH EFFICIENCY CONDENSING BOILERS.

Zoned Heating System

There is a lot of talk these days about a zoned heating system. You may be wondering how this "zoned" heating system differs from a standard heating system. You need to think of a typical standard heating system as one circuit, or "zone", with one controller, one set of pipes all linked and a pump; and when the system is turned "on" all the pipes gets hot water sent to them and all the radiators heat and the hot water cylinder heats to whatever temperature the boiler is heating to.

If your heating system is "zoned" we separate the piping to the cylinder and the radiators into 2 separate circuits, or "zones". Therefore, you can heat the radiator zone OR the hot water cylinder zone separately, or both at the same time. This is especially convenient in the summer when you do not wish to heat your radiators but still require hot water.

Along with being able to control if one is zone is on and the other zone is off, you will also have the ability to heat the water in the cylinder to a preset temperature, at which point that zone (the cylinder) will shut down to prevent overheating or wasting energy. You will also be able to control the temperature of the rooms in the house with a wall temperature stat/sensor. If both the hot water and rooms are hot enough, the boiler shuts down and stops consuming oil. When the rooms or water become cold again, the boiler will start again if the controller/timer also requires heating.

THE ENVIROMAX RANGE of domestic oil fired boilers are highly efficient condensing boilers and are all independently certified to sedbuk Band A. The incredible efficiency of the boiler enabled Firebird to lead the way by having the first registered SEDBUK Band A rated Condensing oil fired Combination boiler. The incredible efficiency of the condensing boiler is due to the development of a single boiler unit with its three unique heat exchanger units. This additional surface area aided by the unique patented baffle design, increases the amount of heat extracted from the combustion process and thus reduces the heat wasted to the atmosphere. So much heat is extracted from the combustion gases that their water vapour element condenses into liquid form, releasing the latent heat that was used to create the vapour in the first place.

It is this heat gain that gives the condensing boiler its significant advantage over a non-condensing boiler and results in it using less fuel and having lower running costs. Because of their increased efficiency the Firebird Enviromax Range emit less carbon dioxide than non-condensing boilers, which will contribute to efforts to reduce global warming.

For a quote for a high efficiency boiler installed onto your existing or new house, please feel free to contact us here for some advice. There are many factors in selecting a correctly sized boiler for your home and we will gladly do this for you.

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