A Look At Various Types Of Heating Systems To Warm Up Your Home

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Traditional furnaces are a prime example of what you can expect from typical home heating systems. Such furnaces draw their air from within a home and send this air into ducts which in turn bear the air to an area where the air is heated up before being sent back to heat up the home. The more modern furnaces however make use of blowers which help in recirculation of the heated up air back into the home. These furnaces can be fueled by electricity or by gas and oil as well as by wood and even by coal.

Electric heat pumps are another example of heating systems and these work through being able to shuffle heat from one part of the home to another. In addition, these can also work as air conditioners when the weather turns warm and you need to cool things down inside the home.

Such systems work with the help of heat pumps that remove warmth from the outdoor environment including from air, ground as well as surface water and even from the earth. Then the air will be warmed up by this system (if required) and will then be circulated throughout the home.

These systems also incorporate metal filters and vents that ...
... resemble what you see in forced air furnaces.

The radiant baseboard heat system is a third example of heating systems. As a matter of fact, baseboard heaters are nothing but long metallic units which have some electrical elements in them. Each such metal unit will have its controls that can have markings to show low and high temperatures, though these controls generally do not show the current room temperature.

Often baseboard heaters are used as the primary heating source for a home and also as supplemental suppliers of heat in rooms that are otherwise quite cool.

Radiant ceiling (floor heaters) is also good examples of heating systems and these work in the same way as the sun. These systems will heat up objects in the same manner as the sun heats up things and such systems also do not need to use any blowers.

The electric radiant elements have to be installed in the ceilings and/or floors of a home, and in a few cases, they can also be installed in walls.

Space heaters are portable and fueled by electricity or gas and even by kerosene. Gas based space heaters are quite common in certain areas, and are found as freestanding heating solutions or they can also be attached to walls.

Hydronic heating systems are another example of how you can heat up a home. These systems can be installed very easily in the ceiling of a home and they can also be installed beneath concrete in your driveway where they help keep that part of your home free from ice and snow. Such systems include a boiler that is used to warm up water in the system.

These are heating solutions that are a variant of radiant heating as they make use of heated water flowing through tubes beneath the floor.
Northern Gas Heating - the UK's local supplier of new Gas Central Heating systems including Condensing boilers.