I have a boiler system in my 1960 2 bedroom ranch. I love the way it warms the house, but my only problems/complaints are: 1.) When the heat starts up you can hear the copper fins "clicking" as the expand. This is because the previous owners have them all banged up and at some point I'll have to straighten them all up. 2.) You'll need a humidifier. My house gets extremely dry during winter months and we had to buy several small units and put them in the bedrooms. I wish i had a whole house unit to add humidity, but there is no way to do this using a hyrdonic system.

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Regarding the aesthetics of keeping your old radiators, it is only my personal opinion that they should be kept, however, you must decide for yourself. Keeping the old rads preserves the look and feel of your heritage home. It may also preserve or perhaps even enhance the resale value of a heritage home. The reason for taking them out might be if youâÂÂre gutting the place and while it will look like a heritage home on the outside, it would be completely modern on the inside. The technical reason to keep the old rads is that they are usually the large ornate heavy cast iron rads that require the lowest water temperatures of that genre and as such are the most efficient. Modern designs that will heat with even lower water temperatures are now also available. These designs are primarily but not exclusively for geothermal hydronic systems. The lower the required water temperature the less energy consumed. Mixing in-floor radiant and your old cast iron rads may be the best choice from energy efficiency, monetary and heritage preservation points of view. Find the hydronic heating specialist that is on the cutting edge of modern hydronic design and installation techniques. This should include controls as well. Your system will not only be efficient, it will be a work of art - you wonâÂÂt be sorry! IMO SR

Hot water or steam heat? If hot water, is it gravit or forced circulation? But, to answer your prime question, are radiators a good heating method? Emphatically, 100% YES. I grew up in a house with cast iron radiators and steam heat. Mom now lives in a house with cast iron radiators and hot water. Not quite as even as having baseboard heating units around the exterior walls, but those large iron masses radiate a wonderful glowing heat for a long time after the system shuts down. I live in a house with a heat pump, and while it keeps the house warmish, I really miss having those nice big radiators on which to park beside (or even on top of) when it's really cold out. There are some tricks to living to getting the best from your radiators, prime among them don't cover the tops and don't let the draps cover them, either. Radiators work by convection. If you cover them, it interfers with the convection cycle. My Mom and I fight about this all the time. She likes to use the radiators in the living room as shelves and they're normally pretty badly blocked off. Sigh. :-)