Helping 30-Year-Old Apartments Still Bring The Heat
“We have 32 boiler rooms feeding 1,168 units with an average distance from the heater to the unit of 250 feet, much of it underground and around corners,” said Glenn Reynolds, property manager of the community. “Getting the right boiler and pump combination to move the heat swiftly and evenly has been a much bigger part of this job than I thought it would be when I signed on 10 years ago.”
Each boiler room sports a primary/secondary system with three 16-unit residential buildings on each loop. The total average line length served by each boiler room is 400 feet, a challenging application made more so by the age of the apartment buildings, Reynolds noted.