When a customer in suburban Philadelphia called Jason Golden, owner of J. Golden Plumbing Heating Cooling in Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania, for a plumbing and heating retrofit, Golden had a solution that delighted the customer in a couple ways.
“The customer had a 30-year-old chimney-vent gas boiler with an electric water heater serving as a hot water backup,” says Golden, who’s been in the trade for 22 years and running his own shop for five. “We were brought in to see what we could do to modernize the system. He also had an issue where his chimney was becoming old and needed some work, as well as the water heater being due for replacement. And they were also looking to free up some storage space down in the mechanical room, so we kind of killed a bunch of birds with one stone by going with a wall-hung combi-boiler. And that allowed us to eliminate extensive chimney work and the electric water heater, as well.”