The boiler was a much better heater
My family used to have a boiler plan & it was great.
The big outdated boiler could heat the entire condo without a hitch. It would take myabel more than nine hours to make the entire condo a nicely even temperature. The boiler also could be hooked up to a lot of things. All of us used the boiler to heat our family’s water source. All of us also could have used the boiler as a pool heater, for a sizzling tub, towel rack warmer or even a snowmelt system. All of us just kept a basic heating function but. After the boiler finally died my mother upgraded it with a gas fireplace. That wasn’t even a close substitution. A gas fireplace is pitiful when it comes to heating power. Also, the fireplace had to stand in the middle of our residing room rather than the basement. So that meant both of us lost a whole bunch of space for a not appealing oil furnace. My mother tried to get a nice looking a single. It had a wooden leg & mantal. There was a glass plate front showcases a faux wood fire. It just wasn’t that good of a piece of component though. You also had to be careful not to touch the glass front since it got so hot. It would be care about lava touching your skin if you brushed against it. The fireplace wasn’t even that nice at heating. All of us had to get a supplemental heating system in the living room & a heating plan for the upstairs as well. Nothing was as nice as the boiler system.