Boilers at the End of Their Life
A great many Harrisburg homes still run hot-water or steam boilers feeding cast iron radiators. These systems are durable, and when they finally give out the answer is usually not to rip everything out.
In most cases the radiators and distribution piping stay and only the boiler is replaced, which keeps the work in the basement and the cost well below a forced-air conversion. We install New Yorker boilers and service circulators, zone valves and controls.
Boiler work is a deliberate specialty for us rather than something we subcontract. That matters in a city where a lot of contractors would rather sell you a furnace than diagnose a hydronic system properly.