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HEATING SYSTEM sa AIR CLEANER sa AIR DUCT sa CHIMNEY sa COAL-BURNING STOVE sa ELECTRIC HEATING sa ENERGY MANAGEMENT sa FIREPLACE sa GEOTHERMAL ENERGY sa HEAT EXCHANGER sa HEAT PUMP sa HUMIDIFIER sa HUMIDITY CONTROL sa KEROSENE HEATER sa OIL BURNER sa RADIANT HEATING sa SOLAR HEATING sa THERMOSTAT sa VENTILATION sa WOOD STOVE sa WORKSHOP HEATING x FURNACE xx HOUSE Four easy ways to make sure your furnace delivers the heat it should. How to cut home heating costs by adding heat storage materials. Storage ideas include water storage, masonry, and chemical compounds. Furnace physical. Four-step heating system checkup. Home heating: How to get more from less. Guide to understanding and maintaining your heating system. What to do with your furnace to keep fuel costs down. Keep your furnace efficient. Tips on maintaining and upgrading your heating system. Heating your home the high-efficiency way. A cost comparison among various fuels and furnace efficiencies. Home heating dollar savers. Things you can do to make your forced air heating system work better. Hydronic or hot water heating system tune-up. Fall tune-up tips for your oil or gas furnace. Heat exchange. Find out which heating system is best for your house. Looks at oil, gas, electric, wood, etc. Low-cost furnace planning. Tips on where to locate a forced air furnace, air returns, filters, duct work, etc. in order to mimimize installation and operating costs. Heating and cooling. Improving the efficiency of your existing furnace. Space-heat choices for a new one-story addition. Excerpt from the book "A Consumer's Guide to Home Improvement, Renovation & Repair." Before you build. Step 2. Adding a zoned heating and cooling system for climate control in every room. Fuel Miser. Build a super-efficient furnace controller which works in conjunction with a thermostat to operate the burner at duty cycle increments of 10% up to 100%. Fan-speed control for your warm-air furnace. The air is continuously circulated, but the blower motor speed is determined by the temperature of the furnace plenum. Gas and oil fired furnace maintenance. How to reduce your fuel bills. Maintenance tips for gas furnaces and water heaters. Mid-winter maintenance tips for furnace, thermostat and hot water heater. Repairs and adjustments that the homeowner can make on a gas furnace. Basic maintenance a homeowner can do on a warm air furnace. Covers oiling the motor and fan, replacing a dust filter and cleaning the furnace humidifier. What you should know about the forced warm air furnace. A description of the basic maintenance that the homeowner can do. A list of things to check before calling a serviceman when the furnace fails. A look at small heaters that can be used to heat a workshop in an unheated garage or outbuilding. A look at wood-burning and multi-fuel furnaces. Tips on furnace shopping, picking the right size unit, special features to check, and installing the unit. Tips: What to do when the furnace quits, when a radiator isn't heating, or when a boiler makes rumbling noises. How to locate the source of furnace noises and eliminate them. Guidelines for furnace inspection and maintenance. New gas heating furnaces reduce fuel use by 25%. A look at what is available and how they work. Best ways to warm up your favorite rooms. How to chose a heating alternative that fits your needs. Looks at wood stoves, space heaters, solar heat, and kerosene heaters. Simple furnace maintenance tips. Tips on balancing your forced-air heating system. Quick fixes. What to do if the furnace won't start. How to get your conventional gas-fired forced-air furnace ready for winter. Choosing a new central heating system. Some tips. Add-on heat. What is available in permanently installed space heaters. Tips on selection and installation. How a house works. Heating systems, humidity and air movement. Chasing the winter chills. (1) Adjusting a thermostat. (2) Stopping a window draft. (3) Adjusting dampers in duct system. Warm bathroom floors. Advice on selecting and installing three systems (radiant floor heat, cove heater, kickspace heater) to bring extra heat into a bathroom. Tips on bleeding trapped air in a hot water heating system. Central heating systems. Describes the features of a forced-air heating system and explains strengths and weaknesses of high-efficiency systems. How a house works. Solutions to three room addition pitfalls. (1) Extending a home's heating and cooling system into the addition. (2) Good window orientation. (3) Cathedral ceiling framing methods. Tuning up a noisy furnace. How to adjust the belt and lubricate blower motor and fan shaft bearings. Warm up a cold room. Causes and cures to the problem of uneven heat distribution. Tips on installing hot water pipes over a compacted-rock floor. Radiant-floor heating. An overview of the updated version of an ancient system. Tips on applying a wood floor over a radiant-slab floor. Tips on installing radiant-heating pipes under a tile floor and heating the water using a wood stove. Warm floors. A well-designed, radiant-floor heating system. An AirCore floor. Heat from a solar room is pushed through the hollow cores of concrete blocks to heat a room. The concrete blocks serve as the floor of a room addition. Blowing hot air. A heating designer looks at conventional forced-air heating systems. Mixing forced-air and boiler heat. This system provides air conditioning, radiant-floor heat and domestic hot water. Limited design and installation information is included. A primer on heating systems. How to match the system to your climate, your house, and your needs. Heating choices for a separate workshop building. Looks at kerosene, wood, radiant floor, radiant ceiling, and propane. Basic considerations when replacing a furnace, central air conditioner or water heater. How to heat an addition to your house. Information on tying on to an existing system and a look at installing a separate heating unit. Electric heaters, heating-cooling units, gas heaters, oil fired space heaters, wood and coal stoves, chimney heat reclaimers and solar heating options are explored. How to balance your heating system to improve comfort in each room. Thirty-one ways to make a cold room comfortable. Tips on keeping cold air out, on improving heat supply and how to bring in new heat. A look at heating with propane. Venting gas-fired heaters. Some tips on the use of both vented and unvented gas-fired space heaters. When to replace your furnace. What is available in new furnaces, how much fuel will they save, costs, etc. Best ways to heat an addition. Advice from a professional heating engineer. Hot tips on home heating systems. A buyer's guide to the best in central heating equipment. Three updated alternatives to replace or add to your present home heating system. (1) Radiant floors. (2) Ground-source heat-pump system. (3) Thermal-mass heat storage. Home heating options. How to evaluate and upgrade your system's performance. Advice on the best way to heat an addition to a home that has a forced-air heating system. Fine-tuning your heating system. How to clean and adjust your furnace, distribution system, and control system. How to tune-up your heating system yourself. How to install a replacement furnace. Some tips. Know your home's heating system. Part 1. A look inside hot-air furnaces. Know your home's heating system. Part 2. Hot-water and steam systems. Tips on reducing noise caused by a forced-air furnace. Be your own house contractor. SPECIAL GUIDE to the PBS television series "Hometime". (1) How to work with designers, choose contractors and coordinate schedules. (2) Foundation options. (3) Framing fundamentals. (4) Mechanical systems (plumbing, heating, electrical). (5) Finishing the shell (roofing, siding, windows). (6) Energy efficiency. (7) Interior finishing. (8) Choosing & installing cabinets. Cold-weather comfort. Cures for cold spots, drafts, sub-par heating systems and other household disorders. Winter comfort guide. A comparison of what different home heating fuels really cost. How to give your furnace or fireplace the combustion air it needs. A look at through-wall heating/cooling systems that can heat a room addition. How to check a boiler or water heater to make sure all safety devices are working. A look at what's available in dual-fuel furnaces. Eight sure ways to trim your fuel bills. Looks at fireplace inserts, portable heaters, wood & coal stoves, recovering waste heat, stopping air leaks, and insulating. How to heat an addition to your home. How to fine tune your heating plant. Adjustments you can make to get more heat with less fuel. Tune up your heating system. Installing an auxiliary gas heater in a basement. Fourteen tips for cutting heating bills. Tips on how to cut your home heating bills in half. How to choose an auxiliary heat source for a workshop. Some of the new furnaces available and a chart comparing the system efficiency of several models. Tips on adding extra heating devices to warm up cold rooms. A heating system for your fun home. How to install your own furnace in a vacation home. Tips on selecting heater, installing ductwork and prefabricated metal chimneys. Twelve ways (tips) to save on heating fuel. Now it may pay to switch furnaces. A look at new furnace developments with higher efficiencies. Guidelines for helping you compute whether to repair an old furnace or to replace it with a new one. Furnace fix-ups you can do. A guide to maintenance and simple repairs you can make to your furnace. Covers controls, fuel supply, air supply, the burner, combustion chamber and the heat carrier. How to cope with a cold house. How to dress so you're comfortable at lower temperatures and tips on blocking off air leaks. A look at radiant heating panels that can be installed in a ceiling. 50 ways to stay warm and pay less. Furnace and boiler checks you can make. A retrofit hydronic system. Tips on installing your own forced-hot-water baseboard heating system. Prepare for winter. Part 3. Getting your heating system ready for winter. How to install a direct-vent gas heater. How to measure your furnace's efficiency. Includes information on selecting a test kit to properly check your furnace. Planning the heating system for an addition to your house. Using your existing furnace and alternative systems are both considered. Reports on research for providing heat from decomposing organic matter. Includes construction details for a compost-pile heat source. A look at radiant heating systems. Includes a product review of radiant heaters available today. The tighter house. Part 8. Ways to improve your heating system. New heaters for low-energy homes. Tips on selecting and using small space heaters, such as direct-venting kerosene, direct-venting gas, unvented minifurnaces, etc. Energy products: don't get ripped off. Part 2. Heating and cooling products. How to fine-tune your gas furnace. Cost-effective home design. Money-saving advice on heating systems and insulation for energy-efficient residences. Nine do-it-yourself adjustments to make on a forced-air gas furnace that can improve its efficiency. Quieting a steam heating system. Curing thumps, gurgles and hisses. Heating the early American home. A look at a unique hot water heating system which employs forced air convection radiators in each room. Other heating tips also included. The energy-efficient old house. How to make energy-related improvements to an old house. Fine tuning a hot water heating system. Covers draining the system, refilling radiators, and care of the pump. Heating system alternatives for the older house. A look at the relative cost of gas, oil, electric and heat pump. Tuning up a steam heating system. A look at ten ways Japanese families keep warm during the winter without using large amounts of expensive fuels. A look at how masonry heaters work. A look at multifuel furnaces capable of heating an entire home using two or more dissimilar fuels. A look at the categories available and a comparison chart for the major brands. Two-speed automatic fan control for your furnace. Fan speed is determined by the heating load on the system. Add a triac variable-speed blower-motor control and continuous air circulation to your warm-air heating system. Complete cycling heating and venting system control circuit for any small enclosed space is used to activate fan motors to maintain a constant temperature level. Application to a two-story house is also discussed. Reduce heating costs with the Fuel Miser, a solid-state, optically isolated, duty-cycle furnace controller. Works with gas, oil or electric furnaces. Automatic blower control. Modernize your older warm-air furnace with this circuit which starts sending warm air 30-seconds after the furnace is activated (instead of waiting for the bonnet temperature to reach 100+ degrees). Installing zone heating. Wiring forced-air heating systems for continuous air circulation for more uniform heat distribution. Furnace repairs you can make when a oil or gas furnace stops working. Tips on seven ways to reduce energy consumption and cut fuel bills. Zoned heating, balanced comfort throughout your home. Improve furnace efficiency by installing zoned heat controls in your hot air or hot water system. Routine maintenance to keep your heating system operating efficiently. The ten worst heat thieves in your home and how to halt their waste. Furnace fix-ups that save fuel and money. A checklist of items to look at before calling the serviceman. Fifteen simple steps to make your furnace produce more heat this winter. Covers oil and gas fired units, both forced air and boiler style. How to install a multi-fuel boiler. Includes information on boiler maintenance. Five ways to get more heat from a furnace. Space heaters. How to choose from among 31 types. How to get more heat from a space heater. Tips on efficient operation of wood, kerosene, coal, electric, oil, and gas space heaters. Homebuilt, outdoor furnace burns wood or combustible trash to heat a home and provide domestic hot water. Built of concrete blocks, the unit uses sand to store heat. Est. cost: $500 to $1600. Preseason checklist to get heating equipment ready for winter. Looks at gas and oil furnaces, heat pump, fireplace, portable heaters, etc. Auxiliary space heaters. Suggestions for their proper use. Tip: Use plastic dropcloths to reduce the volume of air to heat in a garage or workshop. Tips on calculating the payback period for a new furnace (based on the manufacturer's "Energyguide" ratings). Purchase a fuel-efficient gas- or oil-furnace. How to consider the efficiency rating of the unit, the cost of energy and the purchase price when making a choice. Step-by-step tuneup techniques for a forced-air gas furnace. Routine heating and cooling system tuneup techniques. A new firebox liner that you can install yourself to improve furnace efficiency. Tune up your heating system to peak efficiency. Tips for oil and gas furnaces. Replace a one-speed blower on hot air furnaces with a two-speed model. By having the blower run all of the time (high speed when heating and low speed otherwise) you will keep the air circulating and reduce fuel needed to heat your home. How to get top performance from your home heating system. Includes cleaning and adjusting thermostat, a look at some accessory equipment and zoned systems. The Lockbox House. Part 14. Radiant panel heaters installed. How to figure the best places to cut heat loss in your house. Figures, formulas and a case history shows how to save the most heat for the least investment of time and money. A look a some of the less obvious places to install insulation in order to save heat. Outside venting - will it help your furnace burn less fuel? Two designs for venting and comments by an expert. A look at combination furnaces that burn either gas or oil and a solid fuel (wood, coal or both). How they work, a look at creosote danger, and a chart of the heating potential for various woods. Also includes names and addresses of manufacturers of combination home-heating equipment. Outside venting of your furnace room or fireplace might provide needed fresh air to improve the efficiency of combustion. Some tips. High-efficiency home heating systems. Part 2. Gas-fired systems. An expert helps you choose and install heating-system add-ons. Looks at thermostats, humidifiers, dampers, fresh-air intake, etc. New ways to cut energy costs. Covers weatherstripping, insulation, energy-efficient glazing, heating system modifications and ways to cut water-heating costs. The new high-efficiency furnaces. How they work and what is available. Heating system blues. Cure common comfort problems (hot spots, cold drafts, etc.). Gas furnace tune-up. 8 steps to a trouble-free heating season. Tips on retrofitting an existing house with under-the-floor radiant heat. The ideas shown are appropriate for first floor use where the subfloor is accessable from the basement. A primer on gas forced-air heating systems. Troubleshooting your furnace, testing for leaks in heat exchangers, improving your furnace's efficiency, etc. A rule of thumb for estimating fuel savings from lower thermostat settings at night. A look at European radiant hydronic heating panels and radiant-floor heating options. Check out your heating system to insure safe, efficient, economical heating. How to prepare your furnace for winter. Appliance advice from the pros. 48 maintenance tips that will help your household appliances run better and last longer. A buyer's guide to portable heaters. A look at the different types that are available and a chart comparing 17 different models. Tip on keeping your heating plant in order. Simple adjustment and cleaning to prepare your furnace for winter. Tune up your house for winter. Tips on adding insulation, caulking, glazing, weatherstripping, roof repairs, cleaning furnace, etc. Finding the "comfort zone" in home heating and cooling. Tips on finding the correct combination of clothing, temperature, humidity, etc. to produce the most comfortable indoor environment. Home heating. Part 1. Fundamentals and high-efficiency furnaces. Home heating. Part 2. High-efficiency furnaces and boilers. | |||||||||
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