For the love of Home Ownership

Easy to say and yes I am happy, actually I am ecstatic that I finally entered the home owner elite. Well it seems that way at the moment even though I know we are no more elite than anyone else. In actual fact nothing has really changed. I have to pay money to someone else every month for the privileged of staying in a house. I do not like where I am going with this. I love my new house, all mine now I need to make it my own. The mortgage and insurance are taken care of and I have my new carpets arriving next week so all is well.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

A History Of Household Heating And Contemporary Methods

By Mary Barbara Dickins

Central heating is very much thought of as a modern-day convenience. However it has been dated back to the ancient Greeks. A system of central heating provides heat to the interior of (or a portion of) a house or factory etc.

Central heating is believed to have been invented around the 350 BC mark to warm the Great Temples and the homes of the wealthy. Their systems worked by circulating warm air through flue systems in the floor. In todays systems, we can power blowers with electricity, therefore billions of homes around the world are heated by forced air systems.

A forced-air heating system pulls the air in a room through piping to a flame/furnace, where the air is warmed up and filtered. This heated breeze is then pushed back into the house via more piping. A lot of manufacturers will make multiple different sizes in each model. These systems come in different models, like "downflow," "upflow" and "horizontal" versions designed to accommodate a range of space limitations.

These systems are sometimes used with an AC (air conditioning) unit, air filter and a humidifier. The pipes themselves will normally be made from metal wrapped in insulating foam to keep in as much heat as possible.

Local heating differs from central heating as the heat is generated in one place, e.g. a furnace room. The heat then begins circulating, usually either by water thats being forced through piping, steam thats being pushed through pipe work or by air that is being forced through piping.

In many parts of northern Europe, where most people do not need air conditioning in their homes because of the fairly cold weather they have there anyway. Most new houses come with installed central heating. Areas like this will usually use district heating, oil-fired systems or gas heaters.

Steam heating systems powered by gas, oil, or coal can are used in parts of the US, Europe and Russia, more so in bigger buildings. Systems of electrical heating are less commonly found and are only used in areas of cheap electricity.

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