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It is insanely expensive to keep the place warm. Zone 2 is both bedrooms plus bathroom 1. The thermostat is on the bedroom 1 wall right by the window, heated by sun and the boiler (on the other side of that wall) all day; it does not kick in unless it’s set at ~80 or above and there is no middle ground with it. Bathroom 1 is always cold. It gets no sun and very little light, the slate tiles absorb/generate the cold from the slab, and the new “dummy” cover/cap we got for the heater still needs to be installed. Zone 1 is everything else. The studio and laundry room stay toasty because they have generous heating elements for the square footage. Bathroom 2 has no heater but the pipe passes behind the tub; it’s neither toasty nor freezing. The main space only has heaters along the back side (also where the floor-to-ceiling, single-pane, leaky windows are) so the kitchen never warms up; the back side can be heated comfortably but requires a ton of energy to do so (and doesn’t retain it.) As soon as we can afford it, we’ll replace the boiler with a new, highly efficient gas model and the H20 tank with a tankless version. This involves: shopping around for the products; digging the trench from the gas meter around the west side and ½ way around the back to the boiler room; disconnecting the boiler from the oil tank and pipes and removing the tank and boiler (not exactly sure of all the steps yet , or who does what); then having Rich lay the pipe and install the equipment.