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Default are newer furnaces more efficient?

On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 03:45:35 -0500, micky
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On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 02:00:57 -0600, Vic Smith
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In this thread, an oil-fueled device that heats water as does the " 2001
Burnham V8(oil burner hot water)" that thekmanrocks says he has


That is a boiler, not a furnace.


Most houses using hydronic heating have
boilers.


Sorry, I don't know what hydronic means and it's not a word the poster I
was replying to used. .


A heating system that heaters water and circulates it using baseboard
or radiators is a hydroid system.
Hydro = water, liquid, fluid.