Hints About Heating

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ISBN 13 : 9781332234196
Total Pages : 94 pages
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Download or read book Hints About Heating, Vol. 1 written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Hints About Heating, Vol. 1: Containing Valuable Suggestions Respecting Hot-Air Furnace Work, Together With Tables of Dimensions, Capacities, Etc;, Prepared With Especial Reference to the Paragon Hot Air Furnace Steam heating, whether direct or indirect, although well adapted to the requirements of large public institutions, is less suited to ordinary buildings. It is costly; it requires skill and good judgment in its management; and it calls for constant attention. Hot water apparatus, while more safe and more easily managed than steam, is more expensive. Indirect steam or hot water heating, moreover, is exceedingly costly; and the use of direct radiation relies upon heating, over and over again, the air that is already in the room. It must certainly be conceded, that a more healthful method of house warming is one which furnishes a constant supply of fresh, pure air, taken from the outside atmosphere and thoroughly warmed before entering the room. This is exactly what is accomplished by a well constructed Hot Air Furnace. The combination of heating by hot air and by hot water also, from the same source of heat, obviates the disadvantages which attend heating by direct radiation alone. This mode of heating will be treated of later. Upon the grounds of superior healthfulness, safety, economy in first cost, ease of management and inexpensiveness of repairs, a good Hot Air Furnace is to be preferred to all other forms of heating apparatus, whenever its use is feasible. No objections have ever been urged against Hot Air Furnaces that cannot easily be shown to originate either in defective construction or in improper management. For the latter, no furnace can justly be blamed. As to the former, it can only be said that furnaces that are defective in construction can always be obtained by those who are unwilling to pay for a good one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.