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Need age of boiler Noel 01-18-2008
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Posted by Noel on January 18, 2008, 6:55 pm
How can one find out the age of such items? Its a Weil-McClaine boiler
and I think the model no is E 5 or 6. I see the tag but its in a
difficult position to be able to unscrew the 2 screws to get a better
reading. I think it was said that a boiler life time should be around
30 years. I think this unit is closer to 40 years already.

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Posted by ransley on January 18, 2008, 7:17 pm
> How can one find out the age of such items? Its a Weil-McClaine boiler
> and I think the model no is E 5 or 6. I see the tag but its in a
> difficult position to be able to unscrew the 2 screws to get a better
> reading. I think it was said that a boiler life time should be around
> 30 years. I think this unit is closer to 40 years already.

Why do you want to know, it might be only 70% effecient, todays
minimums are about 82% and you can go to 96.7% if you are smart. If
its that old and you live where heat is a big cost, get a net one now
and stop thinking about it. It will increase your homes value.

Posted by Edwin Pawlowski on January 18, 2008, 10:17 pm

Why do you want to know, it might be only 70% effecient, todays
minimums are about 82% and you can go to 96.7% if you are smart. If
its that old and you live where heat is a big cost, get a net one now
and stop thinking about it. It will increase your homes value.

Not as smart as people think. From an ecological point of view, saving oil
is a good thing. As a fiscal investment, for me to upgrade the boiler the
payback is about 12 years. I'm not in a hurry to upgrade.



Posted by Noel on January 19, 2008, 8:03 am
>
> Why do you want to know, it might be only 70% effecient, todays
> minimums are about 82% and you can go to 96.7% if you are smart. If
> its that old and you live where heat is a big cost, get a net one now
> and stop thinking about it. It will increase your homes value.
>

True, but as I see it, the value can be arrived upon the sale of the
home as an incentive..so either way it would 'increase' the sale of
the home. Pushing 80, 12 years to cash in on its payback is non
descriptive. With the latest fiasco on todays market, who knows how
long it would take to sell, and should I so call benefit while living
there? Interesting, no one as yet has answered the gist of my
op....how does one find the age of such boilers?





> Not as smart as people think. From an ecological point of view, saving oil
> is a good thing. As a fiscal investment, for me to upgrade the boiler the
> payback is about 12 years. I'm not in a hurry to upgrade.


Posted by Edwin Pawlowski on January 19, 2008, 9:28 am

>
> Interesting, no one as yet has answered the gist of my
> op....how does one find the age of such boilers?
>

The installer probably wrote the date on the instruction manual.

Some industrial/commercial boilers will have the date on the nameplate.
Other than that, not much you can do. The manufacturere can give you a time
period that particular model was made, but it can easily span 20+ years.




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