Gas and Oil Home Heating Furnaces - Oil Burner - Hot Water Settings / Hot Room

my oil burner is located on the lower level of my house in our laundry room. The room is always very warm year round. Wondering if a draft is contributing to it being kicked on more frequently and whether the hot water settings (we have a coil, no heater) should be lowered...the unit is less than a year old....any feedback is greatly appreciated...thanks!!

Sorry to say that is one mix I dont like anywhere
With the drier in there it is pulling air out of the room and blowing it out side. So that can be a pull on the burner. Also all the lint around there when you wash clothes. The oil burner when on pulls a lot of air from the room into the burner. So you should have that burner cleaned more than one time a year. From all the lint it can get in it. So it can burn right.
Most of the time a boiler is set to 160o on and 180o off

ED ;)

ed,

does the burner go on when it senses a cold draft??? I know it goes on when we run warm/hot water. If so, I will look to seal a draft under the laundry room door....thanks for the advice!!!

You have to see what makes the burner come on. It sure is not the draft there. Boilers most of the time work on the temp in the boilers. That is why when you use hot water the boiler will turn on. The tstat will just turn the pumps on. I have seen where the tstat would turn on the boiler. But its best to have the boiler come on about 160o and off at 180o.

ED ;)

DO NOT SEAL THAT DOOR. If anything take the stinking door off the hinges. Boilers in laudry rooms are bad enough without starving the burner for air. The only way I would put a boiler in a laudry room is if the burner drew it's combustion air from outdoors. If you seal that door, I will guarantee your boiler will plug with soot in short order if it does not draw air from outdoors.

What makes your boiler come on is the water temperature in it. It has a jacket on it that more than likely creates a chimney effect inside it and allows the air to move over it like a giant radiator. Unlike the radiator in the living room, you can't turn that one off. I could go on about boilers like yours for hours on end. It is just about the least efficient way to make domestic hot water today but since the AFUE efficiency ratings don't address that part, the efficiency sticker on the boiler probably says 85-86%. As Grady says, don't starve that boiler for air. You can add an outside combustion air boot but if you do, don't put the intake louver next to your dryer vent outlet. You could add a Beckett Heat Manager. I have used several of them and they do reduce burner run time and fuel consumption. Otherwise, you will have to live with the shortcomings of a less than optimum boiler design.

Ken