Warmth From The Floor
Devimat is a new, super-thin underfloor heating system that can be installed on just about any clean solid floor, including floorboards and old tiles. It can therefore be installed over your old floor, and because it ... [... more]
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Four Common Problems With Heating Systems
Controls: The good news is there aren't that many controls in a steam heating system. You have a thermostat somewhere up there in the space you're heating. You have a pressuretrol on the boiler. It's there to make the air vents work. You also ... [... more]
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How That Steam Boiler Got To Be So Big
When the wealthier people who lived in single-family homes made the leap from fireplaces to central heating systems they chose either steam or gravity hot water heat because that was the best that was available. They also chose coal as a fuel ... [... more]
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Can Alternative Materials Match The Diversity Of Copper?
Not likely, as copper tube systems are suitable for use in domestic, commercial and industrial hot and cold water supply, fire services, gas, steam, medical, air lines, heating systems, air conditioning and refrigeration. The one material does ... [... more]
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Does The Color Of A Radiator Matter?
The purpose of a heating system is to maintain the rooms in a house at some temperature higher than that prevailing out of doors. The heat that is developed by burning fuel is transferred to the rooms by means of the radiators. A radiator neither ... [... more]
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After The War Is Over
"If we think in terms of human comfort, successful heating becomes inseparable from (a) housing or building construction; (b) the heating system as a whole; (c) the operation and maintenance of the heating facilities. Basically, we must remember ... [... more]
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Sizing Circulators For Hot Water Heating Systems
It gives the results for the usual forced-circulation system as well as for a gravity conversion. Besides using the chart to select circulators for a new system or boiler replacement, a technician can take this chart into the field to help ... [... more]
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Four Common Problems With Heating Systems
When I'm troubleshooting steam, I always look for this first. Air will always be my Number One suspect. I walk the piping and ask myself this key question: "If I were air, could I get out?" And if I don't see a way out, neither will the air. If ... [... more]
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Regupol Underlay
Regupol can also go under linoleum and parquet flooring. It is suitable for floor heating systems, is mildew- and moisture-proof, and can withstand temperatures from -40 to 110 degrees Celcius. It has no associated ... [... more]
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Comfort Is Perception
Back when I was working for the manufacturers rep company we moved into this big new office on the Isle of Long that was split up into Dilbert-like cubbies. The place had a two-pipe, direct-return hydronic hot water heating system, running on ... [... more]
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