Buffer tanks help regulate heating in apartment complex
Problem: A large apartment complex in Willimantic, Connecticut, had modulating boilers installed as a means to control their high energy costs. After a year of operation, the property management company noticed higher than usual component failures on the new equipment. Upon investigation, despite the best intentions, the new boilers simply could not modulate down to a rate low enough to heat one or two apartments without serious short cycling. With each apartment maintaining their own temperature control, this problem was not going away on it’s own.
Solution: Dustin Wilson of 860 Plumbing and Heating proposed the
