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What’s the Difference Between a Boiler and a Furnace?

What’s the Difference Between a Boiler and a Furnace?

Whether it's the dead of winter or the tail end of fall, your comfort in the cold ought to cross your mind. The air you breathe and the water you thrive on rely on two common appliances you might be taking for granted at this very moment: Your boiler and furnace.

The furnace and the boiler are essential in the household you cannot do without. If you ever face any issues with your furnace or boiler, A-Plus Quality offers 24/7 HVAC repair service in the Greater Toronto Area. Although both a boiler and furnace provide similar results, they are two different systems that function differently and have some contrasting elements. 

To break it down simply: Boilers put fire to water and furnaces put fire to air. That is, they are heating appliances that tackle every possible heating need your household requires in the general sense. Having a boiler in the Greater Toronto Area ensures that your water and home stays, and having a furnace in in the Greater Toronto Area ensures that the air in your home stays warm. 

A boiler can provide many purposes, such as water heating and central heating. While a furnace’s purpose is to provide central heat. Another difference between the two, is that a furnace requires duct work while a boiler does not. Here’s some main contrasting points between the two:

Furnace:
- Purpose is to heat air
- Distributes heated air through ducts
- Can run on natural gas, oil, propane or electricity
- Less expensive

Boiler:
- Purpose is to heat a fluid
- Distributes the heated fluid through pipes
- Can run on natural gas, oil, propane, or wood. 
- More energy efficient 

In order to decide whether a furnace in the, Greater Toronto Area, or boiler, in the Greater Toronto Area, is best for your home, contact us today to speak to an A-Plus Quality representative. At A-Plus Quality, we will help guide you each step of the way: from making the right decision all the way up to installation. 

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  • Water is Leaking on my Furnace

    Water falling on to the furnace can harm your heating unit by affecting the control boards and other components enclosed in the furnace. There can be many causes to the water overflow, but the most common cases in the summer is the ice build up inside the evaporator coil due to low refrigerant level. Water build up can also be due to the evaporator coil having a crack on the base, if this is the case contact us by booking an appointment or call us today to have a technician come have a look at your unit and repair this issue before it causes excessive damage.  

  • What is a mini-split?

    By definition, and simply put, a “Split System” is a heating and air conditioning system which has two main components, the indoor unit and outdoor unit. In short, the indoor unit absorbs heat energy in the cooling mode, and the outdoor unit rejects the very heat absorbed by the indoor unit. And the cycle is repeated until the set temperature is met. Although the indoor and outdoor units are located in physically different, hence “split” locations, they are connected and operate as, one system; continuously circulating refrigerant liquid and vapor by means of interconnecting, dehydrated copper refrigerant lines, commonly referred to as a “Line Set”.

  • What is a heat pump?

    Heat pumps use electricity to move heat from a cool space to a warm space, making the cool space cooler and the warm space warmer. During the heating season, heat pumps move heat from the cool outdoors into your warm house and during the cooling season, heat pumps move heat from your cool house into the warm outdoors. Because they move heat rather than generate heat, heat pumps can provide equivalent space conditioning at as little as one quarter of the cost of operating conventional heating or cooling appliances.

  • Why should I maintain my Furnace or AC?

    An annual maintenance will extend the lifetime of your heating and cooling unit. The technician will diagnose and repair any problem with the unit before it fails, so you won't need to worry about any problems when the weather gets very hot in the summer or extremely cold in the winter.

  • Furnace is blowing cold air in Winter?

    This can be due to Ignition lockout, sometimes could be resolved by resetting the power  and if this does not resolve the issue you should contact a certified gas technician from A-Plus Quality to get this problem resolved!

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