Types of heating systems for your house.
Heating systems. There are different types of heating systems for houses. Depending on how big the house is and in what region you live you can choose different heating system, or maybe you have already bought a house and want to know more about the heating system it uses? I have already told you about advantages and disadvantages of split air- conditions. But air- condition is not the best idea to heat the house in cold regions. Let’s check better systems for better homes. Even the best heating systems can have their advantages and disadvantages. First of off let’s see how they work and they are used.
Forced air heating systems.
This system is the most common one. To make it work natural gas, propane, oil or electricity can be used. Advantages of forced air system are: cheap, air can be humidified, dehumidified, filtered. Disadvantages are: takes spaces, needs ductwork, make noise, needs regular maintenance and filtration.
Radiant heating systems.
Radiant system give the most comfortable and natural heating. Usually used for floor heating. Though it’s panels can be used in ceilings. Water is heated by a boiler that works as well as forced air systems with gas, propane, electricity or oil. If instead of boiler heating stove is used, wood or coal is fine. The most important advantage of this system is comfort. The house is heated well in all the rooms where radiator is. It can help saving money also – you can just close radiators at the rooms that are not used and close the doors. But. Though it helps saving money installation cost is pretty high. Another disadvantage is slow heating cycle. Does not need much maintenance but if something happens to it’s pipes will be difficult to reach them and to repair.
Hot water baseboard heating systems.
This type of heating is similar to radiant one. Boiler heats water and sends to baseboard units along the walls. As well as radiant heating system this one is also saves money on energy, does not make much noise, you can also change temperature in your house. Bad sides of hot water baseboard system are: it’s units should remain unobstructed and temperature increase is slow.
Steam radiant heating systems.
There are 1 pipe and 2 pipe systems with iron radiators. You can find these systems in old houses and now this system is almost forgotten. Still it has it’s advantages like quickly warming the house, comfortable, you can replay old units with new ones.
All these heating systems are used with boilers. Boilers use electricity, natural gas, oil or propane. Boilers heat water and send them by pipe to the rooms, hall, kitchen and bathrooms. Depending on how big your house is you can buy some small type of boiler, this will save both space and money, but do remember, that it much be big enough to heat the house well, otherwise there is no meaning of buying it.
In other articles I will tell you in details about each of this heating systems and their maintenance and repair.
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