Most people have a regular furnace, but our family has a boiler.
I know many people who have boilers.
Boilers are less work because they require very little maintenance. A boiler will last forty to fifty years, where a regular furnace will only last about twenty. Our boiler was almost forty-five years old, and I was sure it would soon need to be replaced, but I didn’t think it would break as quickly as it did. I got up in the morning to water that was so hot it was boiling. I couldn’t put enough cold water into the mix to get into the shower. I turned off the water and burned my hand. I called the HVAC company and told them my boiler was overworking and my water was boiling. He said he would send someone to the house. When the HVAC technician arrived, he went over the boiler. He said the thermostat was stuck, but he wasn’t sure he had a thermostat to fit the boiler, since it was so old. He would need to go back to the HVAC company and check for a similar thermostat, or he may need to order one. Two hours later, the HVAC technician called and said they didn’t have a thermostat for the boiler, and he would need to order one. It was going to take at lest three days to get the thermostat for the boiler. I was hoping I would soon need a new boiler, but I didn’t want it to happen this way. The HVAC technician was going to order a new thermostat, but I was going to go without hot water while waiting for the boiler to be repaired.