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shirecorn · 2 years
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GOD I wish the minimum wage was a living wage.
I'm not flipping burgers, I'm cleaning litterboxes and doing basic vet care like checking weights, administering medicine, bathing, using IVs, keeping records, making lists, doing photography, and way way more. But the point is even if I was just cleaning litterboxes... I love the work. I wish I could pay rent. Shouldn't I be able to clean litterboxes and feed cats who were rescued from the streets and do that fulfilling wonderful work without wondering where I'm going to live?
Shouldn't someone be able to flip burgers, make art, clean up trash, care for the oceans, teach your children, or rescue animals without being forced to choose between their job and their bills?
What if I don't WANT to climb the ladder and use my degree and search for high stress high pay jobs in order to live? What if I want the high stress job of seeing a kitten crashing below survivable temperature and bringing them back from the brink of death, knowing that I'm the only thing standing between this homeless, unwanted kitten and an early grave?
Shouldn't that be enough? Shouldn't I be able to afford food and rent by doing that?
I don't want to work at a vet office that can give me steady pay increases. I want to work here, with cats who have no owners, nursing them back to health and helping pick their forever home. I want the infrastructure to support me in doing that. I want the laws to say I can and have programs in place to make it so my shelter CAN support me. I want rent to reflect wages. I want wages to reflect rent.
I want to help the world and be able to survive doing it. I want to thrive doing it. I want that for everyone.
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AAA Reports 4% Increase in Labor Day Weekend Bookings; Motel 6 and Studio 6 Offer Discounts
As summer 2023 comes to a close, AAA Travel has reported a 4% increase in Labor Day weekend travel bookings compared to the previous year. This uptick in travel demand is seen as the grand finale of an exceptionally busy summer travel season.
Debbie Haas, Vice President of Travel for AAA — The Auto Club Group, stated, “Labor Day weekend will be the big sendoff to what has been an extremely busy summer travel season.”
While AAA did not release its usual forecast for the number of travelers expected during the weekend, they did provide the top five domestic destinations for this Labor Day: Seattle, Orlando, Anchorage, New York, and Las Vegas.
Seattle’s tourism, in particular, has received a boost from strong demand for Alaska cruises. Florida destinations remain popular due to their beaches, theme parks, and cruise ports. AAA data shows that domestic cruise bookings over Labor Day weekend have increased by 19% compared to 2022.
In terms of gas prices, while the national average for a gallon of regular gas was $3.78 on Labor Day 2022, it stood at $3.83 on August 24, 2023, representing a 24-cent increase from the previous month. However, AAA anticipates that gas prices should remain steady or even decrease heading into Labor Day weekend, barring any major disruptions like a Gulf of Mexico storm.
AAA also shared insights from a survey of its travel advisors, highlighting key topics and trends for this summer: - 59% of AAA travel advisors have noticed increased interest in travel insurance over the last 60 days. - 83% of advisors reported that the most common concern among travelers in the last 60 days was the fear of getting stranded due to delayed or canceled flights. - 64% of advisors noted that travelers who booked extended vacations (at least 14 nights) did so mainly to have more time to explore destinations. - There is significant traveler interest in ocean and river cruises, as well as all-inclusive and guided tour vacations.
To coincide with Labor Day weekend, economy lodging brands Motel 6 and Studio 6 are offering stay discounts for My6 members. My6 is the free rewards program from Motel 6 and Studio 6, and loyalty members will receive a 12% price reduction on all reservations made during the holiday weekend from September 1 to 4.
Julie Arrowsmith, President and Interim CEO of G6 Hospitality, the parent company of Motel 6 and Studio 6, expressed gratitude for the workforce and extended special Labor Day travel discounts as a gesture of appreciation. My6 rewards members also enjoy a minimum 6% discount on stays at over 1,400 Motel 6 and Studio 6 locations throughout the year, along with various benefits across travel, streaming platforms, food, and entertainment.
In July, Motel 6 and Studio 6 partnered with the Humane Society of the United States for the ‘More Than a Pet’ campaign, which focuses on addressing the pet poverty crisis, providing financial support to pet owners in need, improving access to pet care and supplies, and ultimately keeping families and pets together. Source: https://www.asianhospitality.com/aaa-labor-day-weekend-bookings-rise-4-percent/
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Michael Savage New Canaan The New Era of Muscle Cars
Muscle mass autos have actually developed a great deal for many years. The days of ground pounding monsters getting 6 or 8 mpg are gone, and also a new age of muscular tissue autos, and also muscle vehicle performance components has arrived. The muscle mass automobiles nowadays are a lot more powerful, much more trustworthy, and also obtain better fuel economic climate. As well as the ones that are modded, now that's a different tale.
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Back then, if you had an enriched muscle mass cars and truck, the power was unbelievable, but it had not been extremely streetable. Nowadays you can make some small alterations that will improve power significantly as well as offer you that little of extra power, without making it less streetable. Obviously there's lots of points today that can be done to the modern-day muscle cars and trucks that will certainly boost power significantly and also make them run harsh. The distinction today is that there are choices. On a lot of the muscle mass cars and trucks today, a simple cool air consumption, receiver, and also exhaust system will certainly go a long method. a minimum of 60 additional horsepower without running rough, as well as several more miles per gallon on gas economy. Which indicates you can in fact drive it. I lately met up with a turbo battery charger company below in your area that has actually an unique set up for their turbo chargers. The company is STS Turbo. The are called remote mount turbo chargers. Also described as rear mount turbo chargers. The cars and truck that I experienced this system on was a 2003 corvette Z06. The turbos entered location of the mufflers, as well as the air filters installed back by the rear tires. You then have charger pipes that bring the air back up to the intake of the engine. This corvette, running a modest boost level was attaining 580 hp at the back wheels. that was on a stock electric motor, no other alterations had actually been made to make it hold the added power.
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  This corvette got tons of power, and also if the electric motor were to be constructed to hold the additional power, the boost could be turned up higher as well as the car can have accomplished about 750 horse power at the rear tires, and that's with the base turbos that came with the package. Among the various other amazing points though was that the twin turbo set up included a considerable amount of fuel economic situation when it was driven conservatively. Several of the people running the sts twin turbo kits are getting mid to high 30's in the miles per gallon. A muscle mass vehicle that gets incredible gas mileage and also has crazy power. STS makes their remote place turbo sets for the Mustangs, Corvettes, Camaros, and also all the hemi cars, as well as several various other automobile applications. Times actually have changed.
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Mike Savage New Canaan The New Era of Muscle Cars
Muscular tissue autos have actually developed a lot throughout the years. The days of ground pounding monsters getting 6 or 8 mpg are gone, as well as a new age of muscle mass cars, and also muscular tissue automobile efficiency components has actually arrived. The muscular tissue vehicles nowadays are much more powerful, extra trustworthy, and also obtain far better fuel economic situation. And also the ones that are modded, since's a different tale.
Back in the day, if you had an enriched muscle vehicle, the power was amazing, but it wasn't extremely streetable. Nowadays you can make some small adjustments that will certainly boost power significantly and offer you that little bit of added power, without making it less streetable. Of course there's lots of points today that can be done to the contemporary muscle cars and trucks that will improve power dramatically and also make them run rough. The distinction today is that there are alternatives. On most of the muscle mass vehicles today, a straightforward chilly air intake, tuner, as well as exhaust system will certainly go a long way. a minimum of 60 added horsepower without running harsh, and a number of much more miles per gallon on fuel economic situation.
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Which implies you can actually drive it. I just recently met a turbo charger company right here in your area that has actually a special established for their turbo battery chargers. The company is STS Turbo. The are called remote install turbo chargers. Also referred to as back place turbo chargers. The automobile that I experienced this system on was a 2003 corvette Z06. The turbos entered location of the mufflers, as well as the air filters placed back by the rear tires. You then have battery charger pipelines that carry the air back up to the intake of the engine. This corvette, running a moderate boost level was accomplishing 580 hp at the rear wheels. that got on a stock electric motor, nothing else alterations had actually been made to make it hold the added power.
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This corvette grabbed tons of power, as well as if the electric motor were to be built to hold the added power, the increase could be turned up greater and also the cars and truck can have achieved regarding 750 steed power at the back tires, and that's with the base turbos that came with the set. One of the various other unbelievable things though was that the twin turbo established included a substantial quantity of gas economy when it was driven cautiously. Several of individuals running the sts twin turbo sets are obtaining mid to high 30's in the miles per gallon. A muscle automobile that obtains incredible gas mileage and also has crazy power. STS makes their remote mount turbo sets for the Mustangs, Corvettes, Camaros, and all the hemi cars and trucks, along with many various other vehicle applications. Times really have actually altered.
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thekreativejourney · 2 years
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2022 USA Issues
Gas? Formual shortage? Food? Housing Market? etc. 
How are we supposed to live with all the challenges we are facing when minimum wage is still $7.25? I do make way over minimum wage but I still don’t make enough to live on my own. But there are a lot of ppl out there that cannot afford anything making $7.25. I feel like the government wants us to fail. You want to ban abortions but there is a huge formual shortage! You want to ban abaortions but people are still making $7.25 an hour when rent is $1450 plus for a decent 1 bedroom 1 bathroom! 
If I were living on my own right now I would be digging my own grave because the price of things are so high. I began looking into better vehicles on gas mileage to help save. I even considered an electric car, but I don’t have my own house to buy my own car charger. My apartment complex charges about 200 more just to have my own garage. The housing market is so crazy right now, I can’t even think to afford my own home. My boyfriend and I both have are own bills. So I am still responsible for paying for gas, car not, car insurance, and my own phone bill. I still have to work to pay those. Of course our household bills are split, but how much money does that leave in my pockets? This question is the answer as to why most kids are job hopping. A job could pay $13.75 an hour and its still not enough to maintain regular bills. So they find another job paying $17.20 an hour and guess what? Just because they get paid more does not mean they can afford to live on their own. 
There was an aritcle I read a while ago, that stated just for 1 person to afford to live in Charleston, SC they would need to make at least $32/hour. And that is based off the cost of living in Charleston. So imagine if everyone was paid based on the cost of living? That would make a differnece. But we still would deal with the rise of gas prices. Which its near $6/gallon in most states. 
The price of groceries have also increased. Usually, I can go to the store and get 10 itiems an spend roughly $22. Now, those same items could cost me $50. How can anyone afford to live nowadays?
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“We Are Closed”
Thank you Biden. I’m so glad that you find the need to smother small businesses in favor of multinational corporations. I’m so glad you think that just printing money (Much like all democrat politicians seem to) is the answer to every problem. I’m so thankful that you getting elected has resulted in our economy crumbling around us, where gas prices will reach $6-15$ a gallon. Where Milk will cost $8 for a half gallon. Where bread will cost $6 for the off brand. 
Now for those still reading let me make something clear. Biden was to worst case scenario to be elected. Trump contrary to popular belief was not a fascist. Fascists don’t get “voted out”. Fascist also rule with absolute authority. And the media lied about him and smeared him relentlessly. Does that mean I liked him? No it doesn’t. But the economy boomed under him. Now all that’s going on is us waiting for hyper inflation. 
So to the TITLE of this post. “We Are Closed” is trending 3 in the US on Twitter. And most of the tag is a bunch of entitled Americans, whom think everything should be a right for them. Our parents and grandparents often times had to work 2-3 jobs just to make it. And did that suck for them? Yes it did. But here is what you need to understand. Small town jobs exist. Small city chains exist. Mom and Pop shops exist. And a lot of you are out there saying they should not be allowed to exist. And let me explain why you are a moron. 
Small Business Running Expenses etc:
Rent for Building (The better the location the more the rent)
Property Taxes
Cost for Resources (Groceries, Silverware, Raw Material for products your business makes, cleaning supplies etc)
Cost for licenses to operate (Several in some cases)
Cost for any and all Inspections needed to open and continue running
Cost for any repairs and renovations
Insurance on your business and anything it possesses and sales
Costs for Security Measures
Salaries to your employees 
Costs for Advertising
Things they don’t tell you about running a small business
You still have all of your own bills to pay (Rent, property tax, food, health insurance, family, car Insurance, gas, city/state/federal tax, etc)
You will probably need a loan to even open a business
You will likely be paying off that loan for years and will be in debt most of if not the entire time
If you are competing with fast food chains or multinational store chains you will either fail in the first 2 years or you will barely keep your head above the water. 
In short, I get miffed when entitled little shits complain that they should not work because unemployment is paying them more. YEAH BECAUSE BIDEN IS A MORON. He is the one extending the unemployment bonus. And do you know why I hate everyone saying, “Well if your business can’t afford to pay living wage then you have a shit business model and shouldn’t be running a business anyways.” BECAUSE IT’S STUPID. So basically what you are advocating for is for Walmart, Target, and Amazon to get much MUCH bigger than they already did during lockdowns. Meaning their top brass line their pockets a LOT MORE. Meanwhile we devolve down to a system to only allows multinational businesses to exist, creating monopolies. “Hur dur you can always start a new business you just have to pay your employees $50 an hr hurdur”. You. Are. A. MORON! Do you think Walmart went global in a day? A month? A year? NO. It took years to decades for them to become what they are today. 
Also let’s go over the myth of “Minimum living wage” as a broad standard.  How much are the taxes where you live? City, State, Federal? Ok how much is the house you live in? The apartment? The condo? The colonial mansion? Notice a trend there? No two people at the same job are gonna have the exact same bills. Maybe I’m a single male, no kids, living in a condo. I don’t get sick often and I eat very little. What do my bills look like? OK, now I’m a Single mother of 2 living in a 2 bedroom apartment, my family eats a lot, the kids are constantly sick, they go through clothing very quickly and add school to that. 
Do you see what I’m getting at? Businesses can’t just PAY what ever the highest possible denominator is because they would go bankrupt. Minimum living wage as a broad scale is a fallacy. Each person has a minimum living wage but they can’t just pay each person that either because people will grip when they are getting paid less than other people. And it’s discriminatory, and it also incentivizes the workers to live in the most extravagant places possible. So consider this for a second. When businesses have to raise minimum wage they often cut hrs or layoff workers/cut down their work force. To that end the decision you meet is this: A: Pay 20 people $10-$12 and hr or B: Pay 5 people $15-$16 an hr (and layoff 15 people)
Because that IS the option. 20 people with money even if it’s not the most they could have. Or 5 getting paid “living wage” and 15 with no money and no jobs. *And before the commies or socialists come in talking mad shit, NO, your systems don’t work. They can not ever work outside of 50 people or less, with near iron fisted rule. So kindly screw off.*
Oh and another fun fact you don’t seem to realize. Walmart actually will force retirement on to people after 15-20 years because they don’t want to pay out the amount of money those individuals make. I’ve personally seen it happen. Meanwhile the top 20% of the business and it’s shareholders are getting more and more rich because of entitled little shits who just don’t want to work. Then you all have the nerve to shit on businesses that are likely to DO their best to take care of their employees, mostly because it’s still small scale and you get the best out of your workers when you take care of them. (Not to say it will always happen but more often than not it does)
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Rideshare Drivers Are Getting a Little Help With Soaring Gas Prices
Rideshare Drivers Are Getting a Little Help With Soaring Gas Prices https://ift.tt/5RtFpLJ When it comes to gas prices, we’re in uncharted territory. According to AAA, the average price of gas in the United States reached $4.33 on March 11 – the highest in history. GasBuddy says the weekly rise of 49 cents per gallon in early March was the second highest week-to-week increase on record, second only to the week following the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe in 2005. Everyone’s feeling the pinch — especially rideshare drivers who depend on their cars to make a living. How the Ridesharing Industry Is Responding to High Fuel Prices With gas prices at nearly $6 per gallon in some parts of the country, Uber and Lyft have added temporary fuel surcharges to help their drivers. On March 16, Lyft announced it would be adding a 55-cent fuel surcharge on each ride that will go directly from riders to drivers. The driver will receive 100% of the surcharge. Lyft said the surcharge would be in effect for at least the next 60 days. Lyft’s move followed Uber’s announcement that riders will begin paying fuel surcharges of either 45 cents or 55 cents on each Uber trip, or 35 or 45 cents on each UberEats order, depending on their location. All of that money will go directly to drivers. Uber also said it would reassess the surcharge after 60 days. Uber gave one caveat: The surcharge will not apply to rides beginning in New York City or to UberEats deliveries within the city because of a 5.3% increase to the city’s minimum earning standards that Uber drivers received this month. Other Ways to Save on Gas Whether you’re a rideshare driver or not, there’s no better time to get creative on ways to save on gas. Save at the Pump Here are just a few of the many ways you can save at the pump: Use apps like GasBuddy or Waze to help you find the cheapest gas in your area. Skip the premium gas, which isn’t beneficial for most cars. Join a fuel rewards program or use a rewards credit card. Treat Your Car Well A well-maintained car won’t use as much gas. Keep your tires inflated properly. Underinflated tires can lower your gas mileage and cost you about 2 cents per gallon, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Lighten your car by removing anything you don’t use or need, like bicycle racks or sports equipment in the trunk. The heavier the car, the more gas it uses. Use the right oil. The U.S. DOE says using the wrong grade of oil can cost you 4 to 7 cents per gallon. Robert Bruce is a senior writer for The Penny Hoarder. This was originally published on The Penny Hoarder, which helps millions of readers worldwide earn and save money by sharing unique job opportunities, personal stories, freebies and more. The Inc. 5000 ranked The Penny Hoarder as the fastest-growing private media company in the U.S. in 2017. via The Penny Hoarder https://ift.tt/F1O7Y8K March 24, 2022 at 09:40AM
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Why Considering Gas Water Heater?
It doesn't matter if it's a woman in the household or a worker at an office or factory everyone needs hot water heater in the course of their everyday usage. It is regarded as the second biggest energy consumer in the world, following heating and cooling system. In the case of Gas Water Heaters, there are many options available. gasoline water heater you have a wide range of options available on the market such as electric gas, electric, gas (dual option) as well as solar powered models. Our online store stocks a variety of brands and models of a water geyser, so you can choose the one that best meets your needs.
It is a fact that every source of power offers advantages in its own unique method. But Gas Water Geysers are the most popular. natural gas geyser has a lot of reliability and more efficient time for heating water and also reduces the expense of energy bills. This is why approximately 80% of population in Pakistan prefer using gas geysers instead of electric.
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In general, because of an increase in demand the gas storage geysers are slightly more expensive than electric. But, the models that use heat pumps that are used in electric geysers are significantly more expensive than gas models.
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Are you planning to set up a gas-powered geyser? If so, here are a few points you need to be thinking about:
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There is a chance that your house built in the past has no gas pipe. The installation of a new line could cost you thousands of dollars. If you are considering a Gas Water Heater, it is important to be aware that it requires venting pipe lines and gas. Also, if you change onto an instant water heater is expensive as it will require more power.
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It is a fact that when you purchase gasoline water heater there is always the risk of gas leakage or even an explosion. With electric geysers, there are a minimum of dangers to consider. To prevent any mishaps it is essential to install a gas-powered geyser by a professional to comply with all safety requirements.
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Contrary to electric one, Gas Water Heater are more expensive. propane water heater is more complex and has more components that require greater maintenance as well as repair. While working with gas, you must not overlook potential for an accident. If you're not familiar with the process dealing with gas appliances. You'll need an expert to manage the repair and maintenance requirements of the appliance.
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ryanqxbl867 · 3 years
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6 Online Communities About Gloves protect from Coronavirus You Should Join
Some Known Details About How To Find The Cleaning Supplies That Stop Virus?
Nonetheless, COVID-19 can be transferred from any kind of infected individual to surfaces made from a range of materialswhere it can remain feasible for hours to days. Cleaning of visibly dirty surface areas followed by disinfection is an ideal practice to stop the spread of COVID-19 as well as other viral breathing health problems in organizations, households, healthcare facilities, and neighborhood settings.
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In case of an outbreak, firms with preapproved items can make off-label insurance claims (for example, in technical literature, non-label-related internet sites and also social media) for usage against the episode infection. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has offered several sources to aid healthcare centers, area sites, businesses, as well as households in preventing the spread of the infection.
Use disposable handwear covers when cleansing as well as decontaminating surface areas. Gloves need to be discarded after each cleansing. If reusable handwear covers are used, those gloves must be devoted for cleansing and sanitation of surfaces for COVID-19 and also must not be utilized for various other objectives. Consult the maker's instructions for cleaning as well as sanitation items utilized.
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Unexpired house bleach will certainly be effective versus coronaviruses when properly weakened. Prepare a bleach solution by mixing 5 tbsps (1/3 mug) bleach per gallon of water or 4 tsps bleach per quart of water. The CDC's COVID-19 guidance certain to certain sectors is available.
Routine handwashing, consistent social distancing, putting on a mask in public, and regular disinfection of high-touch objects continue to be the most effective means to stop the spread of COVID-19, the breathing infection brought on by the unique coronavirus. However when it pertains to cleansing those high-touch challenge decrease the spread of COVID-19, which disinfectants are one of the most effective? What's the best means to utilize them? And what's the difference between cleansing as well as decontaminating? Right here are solutions to nine of the concerns I hear one of the most frequently as a manager in MD Anderson's Environmental Wellness and Security division.
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5 Qualities the Best People in the survival bars Industry Tend to Have
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Nonetheless, that doesn't imply we're experiencing personal emergency situations. It's times like these that remind us to be all set in situation of an all-natural catastrophe, a home fire, or perhaps an absence of fundamental energies. This is not the time to hoard supplies. It's a time to be prepared and keep an eye out for your area.
Commonly throughout an emergency, electricity, water, heat, a/c or telephone solution might not function. All citizens need to have some basic supplies accessible in order for a household to endure if an emergency happens. The emergency supply kit must be robust and also contain sufficient food, water, medicines as well as other consumables to last 7 to 10 days.
When disasters strike, it can take days to bring back energies and obtain relief initiatives in position. Ensure every one of your family's prompt demands are met by developing an emergency situation supply package with food, water, an emergency treatment set, and also other essentials. Right here's a complete list of materials to consist of in your emergency situation set: Water (one gallon per person daily.
Water filter strawsWater treatment tabletsDust or surgical masks (to shield against tornado particles)Plastic fridge freezer bags (to maintain points dry)Money (little costs and also adjustment)IDCopies of important records (insurance policy cards, water storage barrels click this site insurance coverage, birth certifications, savings account info)Emergency call numbersPaper, a pen, and a permanent markerA mobile phone as well chivarolipremier.com/emergency-preparedness/ as a chargerA backpack or knapsack to carry everything (one per relative).
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A tentA cookstove and also fuelCooking devices (a frying pan, spoon or spatula)Filteringed system water bottlesA solar battery charger (for billing your phone)A hatSunscreen Consist of food as well as extra water for your petsIf you have an infant, include diapers, wipes, formula, etc. Make certain to consider the demands of any senior citizens, expectant, or nursing moms or unique requirements people in your household.
Place every little thing in a plastic bin (or water-proof container) to ensure your supplies stay completely dry. Store your package in a great, dry area that is easily obtainable. See to it everybody in your house recognizes where it is. FEMA advises that in an emergency, you can utilize must utilize 16 drops of bleach to decontaminate one gallon of water.
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FEMA advises revolving the food as well as water in your emergency supply set every 6 months. It's also essential to stay up to date with the expiration dates on drug and batteries, and also to swap out clothing both seasonally and also as children expand. Fire extinguishers require to be checked regularly, also. Set a pointer in your calendar, so you do not fail to remember to make the required updates.
Web page Web content Catastrophes can happen at any type of time and anywhere, as well as you may not have much time to respond. Take these 4 actions towards preparedness. - Talk to household and pals about the kinds of emergencies that can occur. - Have a kit for your residence, lorry, and also your area of work.
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- Learn first-aid and MOUTH-TO-MOUTH RESUSCITATION (cardio lung resuscitation). Know just how to shelter-in-place and how to shut off utilities (power, gas, water) to your house. - Volunteer in your community as a CERT (Resident Emergency Response Team) member, a firefighter, or an emergency situation medical professional. There are basic actions you can take to guarantee you are prepared in your home, in your vehicle, and at the office.
Since Springtime of 2020, the CDC has recommended people include additional items in their sets to assist prevent the spread of coronavirus or other viruses and the flu. Consider including the adhering to products to your emergency situation supply kit based upon your specific demands: Towel face treatments (for everybody ages 2 and over), soap, hand sanitizer, decontaminating wipes to sanitize surfacesPrescription medicationsNon-prescription medicines such as pain reducers, anti-diarrhea medicine, antacids or laxativesPrescription eyeglasses and also get in touch with lens solutionInfant formula, containers, baby diapers, wipes as well as baby diaper rash creamPet food and added water for your petCash or vacationer's checksImportant family members documents such as copies of insurance coverage, identification as well as savings account records saved digitally or in a water-proof, mobile containerSleeping bag or warm covering for each personComplete modification of apparel suitable for your climate and also sturdy shoesFire extinguisherMatches in a water-proof containerFeminine supplies as well as individual hygiene itemsMess packages, paper mugs, plates, paper towels as well as plastic utensilsPaper and also pencilBooks, games, problems or other tasks for children Download the Calamity Kit brochure for a very easy to utilize list of things suggested for your kit(s).
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You may require them if your family is constrained at home or left. Keep the products you would certainly more than likely need during an evacuation in an easy-to-carry container (Go Bag), such as an outdoor camping backpack or a duffle bag.
What kinds of disasters maintain you awake in the evening????? You can anticipate that your residents share your anxieties, as do your workers. While no public safety office can completely predict a widescale, or hyperlocal calamity, every public safety officer must prepare for one. While preparations must consist of the production and also upkeep of, the growth of a, and the implementation of, dig much deeper as well as assume beyond community-wide safety and concentrate on the threats and security actions that you need to require to safeguard your own office.
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After you successfully execute these pointers, share them on your and also urge company leaders in your neighborhood to make comparable prep work. If your workplace is every under strike or damaged in an unforeseen quake or twister, it might take some time for emergency situation -responders to reach you. Up until they do, you and also your co-workers will certainly require accessibility to the following fundamental safety and security supplies: A big flashlight and added batteries.
A respirator and box of surgical masks or dirt masks. Water purification tablets. Canned items as well as a manual can opener, as well as packaged foods. Emergency situation survival food provision bars are ideal for storage space and consumption. A number of Mylar emergency situation blankets. Mineral water along with emergency situation water packages. Prepare for one gallon of water each daily for a minimum of three days for both alcohol consumption as well as hygiene.
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Pioneer Plumbing has built a reputation of honesty with our long time returning customers. We’ve found that “doing the right thing” in all aspects of our company has brought us to where we are today, and will continue to guide us into the future. Don’t hesitate to call and ask us any plumbing, heating, ventilation, or gas related questions. Chances are if you have a tricky issue, we can solve it.
We have a few goals for our clients. One is to be available for you. It is very uncommon that when you call us we are unable to make it within the same day. We give our repeat customers priority service so if you’ve used us before and you have an emergency, we are going to do what we need to, to get someone there.
Two is to be upfront and honest. From our quotes to our service techs on site, we don’t like to beat around the bush. We will let you know our concerns, our recommendations, and our opinions on how we would handle each situation as if it were our own residence where the problem occurred. We won’t tell you the job is only a 2 hour repair when we have had situations where it turned into an all day repair.
Three is to stand behind our installations and repairs. With mechanical work, it is very common for jobs to get larger or go sideways as you get into them. If we give you a quote we will stand true to the price, if we complete a job for you and you are unhappy with the finished product, we will come back and make it right. In return, all we ask is that you communicate with our office respectfully and honestly so that we can make sure at the end of the day you are happy with our services!
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Furnaces
The majority of North American households depend on a central furnace to provide heat. A furnace works by blowing heated air through ducts that deliver the warm air to rooms throughout the house via air registers or grills. This type of heating system is called a ducted warm-air or forced warm-air distribution system. It can be powered by electricity, natural gas, or fuel oil.
Inside a gas- or oil-fired furnace, the fuel is mixed with air and burned. The flames heat a metal heat exchanger where the heat is transferred to air. Air is pushed through the heat exchanger by the “air handler’s” furnace fan and then forced through the ductwork downstream of the heat exchanger. At the furnace, combustion products are vented out of the building through a flue pipe. Older “atmospheric” furnaces vented directly to the atmosphere, and wasted about 30% of the fuel energy just to keep the exhaust hot enough to safely rise through the chimney. Current minimum-efficiency furnaces reduce this waste substantially by using an “inducer” fan to pull the exhaust gases through the heat exchanger and induce draft in the chimney. “Condensing” furnaces are designed to reclaim much of this escaping heat by cooling exhaust gases well below 140°F, where water vapor in the exhaust condenses into water. This is the primary feature of a high-efficiency furnace (or boiler). These typically vent through a sidewall with a plastic pipe.
New furnace standards are currently under development by the U.S. Department of Energy, and are due to be finalized in the spring of 2016. The current furnace standards have not been updated since 1987.
Heating system controls regulate when the various components of the heating system turn on and off. The most important control from your standpoint is the thermostat, which turns the system — or at least the distribution system — on and off to keep you comfortable. A typical forced air system will have a single thermostat. But, there are other internal controls in a heating system, such as “high limit” switches that are part of an invisible but critical set of safety controls.
The best gas furnaces and boilers today have efficiencies over 90%
The efficiency of a fossil-fuel furnace or boiler is a measure of the amount of useful heat produced per unit of input energy (fuel). Combustion efficiency is the simplest measure; it is just the system’s efficiency while it is running. Combustion efficiency is like the miles per gallon your car gets cruising along at 55 miles per hour on the highway.
In the U.S., furnace efficiency is regulated by minimum AFUE (Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency). AFUE estimates seasonal efficiency, averaging peak and part-load situations. AFUE accounts for start-up, cool-down, and other operating losses that occur in real operating conditions, and includes an estimate of electricity used by the air handler, inducer fan, and controls. AFUE is like your car mileage between fill-ups, including both highway driving and stop-and-go traffic. The higher the AFUE, the more efficient the furnace or boiler.
Boilers
Boilers are special-purpose water heaters. While furnaces carry heat in warm air, boiler systems distribute the heat in hot water, which gives up heat as it passes through radiators or other devices in rooms throughout the house. The cooler water then returns to the boiler to be reheated. Hot water systems are often called hydronic systems. Residential boilers generally use natural gas or heating oil for fuel.
In steam boilers, which are much less common in homes today, the water is boiled and steam carries heat through the house, condensing to water in the radiators as it cools. Oil and natural gas are commonly used.
Instead of a fan and duct system, a boiler uses a pump to circulate hot water through pipes to radiators. Some hot water systems circulate water through plastic tubing in the floor, a system called radiant floor heating (see “State of the Art Heating”). Important boiler controls include thermostats, aquastats, and valves that regulate circulation and water temperature. Although the cost is not trivial, it is generally much easier to install “zone” thermostats and controls for individual rooms with a hydronic system than with forced air. Some controls are standard features in new boilers, while others can be added on to save energy (see the “Modifications by Heating System Technicians” section on the heating maintenance page).
As with furnaces, condensing gas-fired boilers are relatively common, and significantly more efficient than non-condensing boilers (unless very sophisticated controls are employed). Oil-fired condensing boilers are uncommon in the U.S. for several reasons related to lower latent heat potential, and potential for greater fouling with conventional fuel oil.
Heat Pumps
Heat pumps are just two-way air conditioners (see detailed description in the cooling systems section). During the summer, an air conditioner works by moving heat from the relatively cool indoors to the relatively warm outside. In winter, the heat pump reverses this trick, scavenging heat from the cold outdoors with the help of an electrical system, and discharging that heat inside the house. Almost all heat pumps use forced warm-air delivery systems to move heated air throughout the house.
A ground-source heat pump heats and cools in any climate by exchanging heat with the ground, which has a more constant temperature.
There are two relatively common types of heat pumps. Air-source heat pumps use the outside air as the heat source in winter and heat sink in summer. Ground-source (also called geothermal, GeoExchange, or GX) heat pumps get their heat from underground, where temperatures are more constant year-round. Air-source heat pumps are far more common than ground-source heat pumps because they are cheaper and easier to install. Ground-source heat pumps, however, are much more efficient, and are frequently chosen by consumers who plan to remain in the same house for a long time, or have a strong desire to live more sustainably. How to determine whether a heat pump makes sense in your climate is discussed further under “Fuel Options.”
Whereas an air-source heat pump is installed much like a central air conditioner, ground-source heat pumps require that a “loop” be buried in the ground, usually in long, shallow (3–6' deep) trenches or in one or more vertical boreholes. The particular method used will depend on the experience of the installer, the size of your lot, the subsoil, and the landscape. Alternatively, some systems draw in groundwater and pass it through the heat exchanger instead of using a refrigerant. The groundwater is then returned to the aquifer.
Because electricity in a heat pump is used to move heat rather than to generate it, the heat pump can deliver more energy than it consumes. The ratio of delivered heating energy to consumed energy is called the coefficient of performance, or COP, with typical values ranging from 1.5 to 3.5. This is a “steady-state” measure and not directly comparable to the heating season performance factor (HSPF), a seasonal measure mandated for rating the heating efficiency of air-source heat pumps. Converting between the measures is not straightforward, but ground-source units are generally more efficient than air-source heat pumps.
Direct Heat
Gas-Fired Space Heaters
In some areas, gas-fired direct heating equipment is popular. This includes wall-mounted, free-standing, and floor furnaces, all characterized by their lack of ductwork and relatively small heat output. Because they lack ducts, they are most useful for warming a single room. If heating several rooms is required, either the doors between rooms must be left open or another heating method is necessary. Better models use “sealed combustion air” systems, with pipes installed through the wall to both provide combustion air and carry off the combustion products. These units can provide acceptable performance, particularly for cabins and other buildings where large temperature differences between bedrooms and main rooms are acceptable. The models can be fired with natural gas or propane, and some burn kerosene.
Unvented Gas-Fired Heaters: A Bad Idea
Gas or kerosene space heaters that do not have an exhaust vent have been sold for decades, but we strongly discourage their use for health and safety reasons. Known as “vent-free” gas heating appliances by manufacturers, they include wall-mounted and free-standing heaters as well as open-flame gas fireplaces with ceramic logs that are not actually connected to a chimney. Manufacturers claim that because the products’ combustion efficiency is very high, they are safe for building occupants. However, this claim is only valid if you keep a nearby window open for adequate fresh air— which defeats the purpose of supplemental heat. Dangers include exposure to combustion by-products, as discussed in Ventilation, and oxygen depletion (these heaters must be equipped with oxygen depletion sensors). Because of these hazards, at least five states (California, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Montana, and Alaska) prohibit their use in homes, and many cities in the United States and Canada have banned them as well.
Electric Space Heaters
Portable (plug-in) electric heaters are inexpensive to buy, but costly to use. These resistive heaters include “oil-filled” and “quartz-infrared” heaters. They convert electric current from the wall socket directly into heat, like a toaster or clothes iron. As explained further under “Selecting a New System,” it takes a lot of electricity to deliver the same amount of useful heat that natural gas or oil can provide onsite. A 1,500- watt plug-in heater will use almost the entire capacity of a 15-amp branch circuit; thus, adding much additional load will trip the circuit breaker or blow the fuse. The cost to operate a 1,500-watt unit for an hour is simple to compute: it is 1.5 times your electricity cost in cents per kilowatt-hour. At national average rates—12¢ kWh for electricity— that heater would cost 18¢ per hour to run—and quickly cost more than its purchase price. On the other hand, for intermittent use, it is the “least-bad” solution when alternatives would require major investments to improve ductwork for a specific area, for example. Just remember, electric resistance heat is usually the most expensive form of heat, and it is, therefore, seldom recommended.
“Electric baseboard heat” is yet another kind of resistive heating, similar to a plug-in space heater except that it is hard-wired. It has two principal virtues: the installation cost is low, and it is easy to install individual room thermostats so you can turn down the heat in rooms that aren’t being used. Operating costs, as for all resistive systems, are generally very high, unless the house is “super-insulated.”
Wood-Burning and Pellet Stoves
Wood heating can make a great deal of sense in rural areas if you enjoy stacking wood and stoking the stove or furnace. Wood prices are generally lower than gas, oil, or electricity. If you cut your own wood, the savings can be large. Pollutants from wood burning have been a problem in some parts of the country, causing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to implement regulations that govern pollution emissions from wood stoves. As a result, new models are quite clean-burning. Pellet stoves offer a number of advantages over wood stoves. They are less polluting than wood stoves and offer users greater convenience, temperature control, and indoor air quality.
Fireplaces
Gas (and most wood) fireplaces are basically part of a room’s décor, providing a warm glow (and a way to dispose of secret documents), but typically not an effective heat source. With customary installations that rely on air drawn from the room into the fireplace for combustion and dilution, the fireplace will generally lose more heat than it provides, because so much warm air is drawn through the unit and must be replaced by cold outside air. On the other hand, if the fireplace is provided with a tight-sealing glass door, a source of outside air, and a good chimney damper, it can provide useful heat.
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Radiant floor heat generally refers to systems that circulate warm water in tubes under the floor. This warms the floor, which in turn warms people using the room. It is highly controllable, considered efficient by its advocates, and is expensive to install. It also requires a very experienced system designer and installer, and limits carpet choices and other floor finishes: you don’t want to “blanket” your heat source.
Contact the Radiant Panel Association(link is external)
Ductless, Mini-Split, Multi-Split. Residential ductwork is relatively rare outside North America. “Ductless” heat pumps, which distribute energy through refrigerant lines instead of water or air, are widely used. Large field trials in the Pacific Northwest suggest that they can have good cold weather performance, and be very cost-effective where replacing electric resistance heating. Like ground-source systems, relative immaturity of the market helps assure that whole-house multi-split systems carry premium prices.
Combined heat and power (CHP) or cogeneration for houses is being seriously studied in some countries. The basic premise is to use a small generator to meet some of the electric demand of the house, and recover the waste heat (typically more than 70% of the heating value of the fuel) to heat the house (hydronic or water-to-air systems) and make domestic hot water. These systems are not yet widely available. They are likely to have the best economics in houses with high heating bills because the house cannot be feasibly insulated, such as solid stone or brick homes.
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How To Avoid High Heating Repair Expenses
There are a few ways to maintain your furnace system. Odds are, during wintertime months your furnace runs all day trying to keep the home warm. In fact, it is probably on more than it needs to be because it is unable to maintain an efficient atmosphere. When troubleshooting and optimizing the heating portion of your furnace system, there are several things to consider.
Change The Air Filter
This is the part you typically hear people speaking about most often, but so few individuals take the recommendation and do anything about it. When there is a blockage, you either run the risk of not distributing heat appropriately or possibly igniting a fire.When the air filter gets dirty air will not flow through as well which suggests the furnace must work overtime and could also mean a likelihood of fire. If the system is not circulating heat properly, it will be working overtime. The fire issue is obviously self-explanatory. In each case it is not suitable for peace of mind or your budget.
Assess The Blower
Have a look at the blower blades to make sure they are free of crap. Should there be any build-up of dirt and dust, your fan will work overtime to blow the air around, and the heating will be overexerting itself. This means the system is overworking and costing more money to run.
Check To See That The Fire Damper Works
Next, look at the fire damper to make sure it is running properly. The fire damper explains itself so pay attention to this aspect.
Look For Holes In The Flex Duct
It is feasible that your ducts have become damaged throughout the years for different reasons. If a duct has collapsed or become blocked, your system will think that the right temperature has been achieved, which will not be true. Ultimately your equipment will be working harder to keep your home cool while you continue lowering the thermostat to get to comfortable settings.
Band Insulation
Insulation is usually missed but is perhaps the most regular reasons why an furnace system fails. Take the time to look at the insulation in between the duct work and the outside to make sure it has not worked itself loose. When this has happened furnace works more than wanted while trying to reach the best temperature.
Air Ducts Need To Be Sealed
See that the ductwork has not become separated from the next section. Disconnected ductwork will permit hot air to escape and of course add to the running costs.
Check For Leaks In The Return Air Inlets And Zone Dampers
Be certain to check that return air intakes are clean and in good shape or your system will be out of kilter. Examine the zone dampers to see if they are in the correct place. Through the year we could change the positioning of the damper for many reasons (i.e. getting into a tight space or arranging for storage). Check to see that the dampers are actually in the right position too.
If that is a little too much to handle by yourself, we propose you hire a local plumbing business certified for furnace and heating repair. You should manage to find a reputable heating company who can take care of this for you. For optimum results you could arrange annual upkeep for furnace and the heating people will call every year to take care of it.
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Pioneer Plumbing has built a reputation of honesty with our long time returning customers. We’ve found that “doing the right thing” in all aspects of our company has brought us to where we are today, and will continue to guide us into the future. Don’t hesitate to call and ask us any plumbing, heating, ventilation, or gas related questions. Chances are if you have a tricky issue, we can solve it.
We have a few goals for our clients. One is to be available for you. It is very uncommon that when you call us we are unable to make it within the same day. We give our repeat customers priority service so if you’ve used us before and you have an emergency, we are going to do what we need to, to get someone there.
Two is to be upfront and honest. From our quotes to our service techs on site, we don’t like to beat around the bush. We will let you know our concerns, our recommendations, and our opinions on how we would handle each situation as if it were our own residence where the problem occurred. We won’t tell you the job is only a 2 hour repair when we have had situations where it turned into an all day repair.
Three is to stand behind our installations and repairs. With mechanical work, it is very common for jobs to get larger or go sideways as you get into them. If we give you a quote we will stand true to the price, if we complete a job for you and you are unhappy with the finished product, we will come back and make it right. In return, all we ask is that you communicate with our office respectfully and honestly so that we can make sure at the end of the day you are happy with our services!
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Central Heat
Furnaces
The majority of North American households depend on a central furnace to provide heat. A furnace works by blowing heated air through ducts that deliver the warm air to rooms throughout the house via air registers or grills. This type of heating system is called a ducted warm-air or forced warm-air distribution system. It can be powered by electricity, natural gas, or fuel oil.
Inside a gas- or oil-fired furnace, the fuel is mixed with air and burned. The flames heat a metal heat exchanger where the heat is transferred to air. Air is pushed through the heat exchanger by the “air handler’s” furnace fan and then forced through the ductwork downstream of the heat exchanger. At the furnace, combustion products are vented out of the building through a flue pipe. Older “atmospheric” furnaces vented directly to the atmosphere, and wasted about 30% of the fuel energy just to keep the exhaust hot enough to safely rise through the chimney. Current minimum-efficiency furnaces reduce this waste substantially by using an “inducer” fan to pull the exhaust gases through the heat exchanger and induce draft in the chimney. “Condensing” furnaces are designed to reclaim much of this escaping heat by cooling exhaust gases well below 140°F, where water vapor in the exhaust condenses into water. This is the primary feature of a high-efficiency furnace (or boiler). These typically vent through a sidewall with a plastic pipe.
New furnace standards are currently under development by the U.S. Department of Energy, and are due to be finalized in the spring of 2016. The current furnace standards have not been updated since 1987.
Heating system controls regulate when the various components of the heating system turn on and off. The most important control from your standpoint is the thermostat, which turns the system — or at least the distribution system — on and off to keep you comfortable. A typical forced air system will have a single thermostat. But, there are other internal controls in a heating system, such as “high limit” switches that are part of an invisible but critical set of safety controls.
The best gas furnaces and boilers today have efficiencies over 90%
The efficiency of a fossil-fuel furnace or boiler is a measure of the amount of useful heat produced per unit of input energy (fuel). Combustion efficiency is the simplest measure; it is just the system’s efficiency while it is running. Combustion efficiency is like the miles per gallon your car gets cruising along at 55 miles per hour on the highway.
In the U.S., furnace efficiency is regulated by minimum AFUE (Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency). AFUE estimates seasonal efficiency, averaging peak and part-load situations. AFUE accounts for start-up, cool-down, and other operating losses that occur in real operating conditions, and includes an estimate of electricity used by the air handler, inducer fan, and controls. AFUE is like your car mileage between fill-ups, including both highway driving and stop-and-go traffic. The higher the AFUE, the more efficient the furnace or boiler.
Boilers
Boilers are special-purpose water heaters. While furnaces carry heat in warm air, boiler systems distribute the heat in hot water, which gives up heat as it passes through radiators or other devices in rooms throughout the house. The cooler water then returns to the boiler to be reheated. Hot water systems are often called hydronic systems. Residential boilers generally use natural gas or heating oil for fuel.
In steam boilers, which are much less common in homes today, the water is boiled and steam carries heat through the house, condensing to water in the radiators as it cools. Oil and natural gas are commonly used.
Instead of a fan and duct system, a boiler uses a pump to circulate hot water through pipes to radiators. Some hot water systems circulate water through plastic tubing in the floor, a system called radiant floor heating (see “State of the Art Heating”). Important boiler controls include thermostats, aquastats, and valves that regulate circulation and water temperature. Although the cost is not trivial, it is generally much easier to install “zone” thermostats and controls for individual rooms with a hydronic system than with forced air. Some controls are standard features in new boilers, while others can be added on to save energy (see the “Modifications by Heating System Technicians” section on the heating maintenance page).
As with furnaces, condensing gas-fired boilers are relatively common, and significantly more efficient than non-condensing boilers (unless very sophisticated controls are employed). Oil-fired condensing boilers are uncommon in the U.S. for several reasons related to lower latent heat potential, and potential for greater fouling with conventional fuel oil.
Heat Pumps
Heat pumps are just two-way air conditioners (see detailed description in the cooling systems section). During the summer, an air conditioner works by moving heat from the relatively cool indoors to the relatively warm outside. In winter, the heat pump reverses this trick, scavenging heat from the cold outdoors with the help of an electrical system, and discharging that heat inside the house. Almost all heat pumps use forced warm-air delivery systems to move heated air throughout the house.
A ground-source heat pump heats and cools in any climate by exchanging heat with the ground, which has a more constant temperature.
There are two relatively common types of heat pumps. Air-source heat pumps use the outside air as the heat source in winter and heat sink in summer. Ground-source (also called geothermal, GeoExchange, or GX) heat pumps get their heat from underground, where temperatures are more constant year-round. Air-source heat pumps are far more common than ground-source heat pumps because they are cheaper and easier to install. Ground-source heat pumps, however, are much more efficient, and are frequently chosen by consumers who plan to remain in the same house for a long time, or have a strong desire to live more sustainably. How to determine whether a heat pump makes sense in your climate is discussed further under “Fuel Options.”
Whereas an air-source heat pump is installed much like a central air conditioner, ground-source heat pumps require that a “loop” be buried in the ground, usually in long, shallow (3–6' deep) trenches or in one or more vertical boreholes. The particular method used will depend on the experience of the installer, the size of your lot, the subsoil, and the landscape. Alternatively, some systems draw in groundwater and pass it through the heat exchanger instead of using a refrigerant. The groundwater is then returned to the aquifer.
Because electricity in a heat pump is used to move heat rather than to generate it, the heat pump can deliver more energy than it consumes. The ratio of delivered heating energy to consumed energy is called the coefficient of performance, or COP, with typical values ranging from 1.5 to 3.5. This is a “steady-state” measure and not directly comparable to the heating season performance factor (HSPF), a seasonal measure mandated for rating the heating efficiency of air-source heat pumps. Converting between the measures is not straightforward, but ground-source units are generally more efficient than air-source heat pumps.
Direct Heat
Gas-Fired Space Heaters
In some areas, gas-fired direct heating equipment is popular. This includes wall-mounted, free-standing, and floor furnaces, all characterized by their lack of ductwork and relatively small heat output. Because they lack ducts, they are most useful for warming a single room. If heating several rooms is required, either the doors between rooms must be left open or another heating method is necessary. Better models use “sealed combustion air” systems, with pipes installed through the wall to both provide combustion air and carry off the combustion products. These units can provide acceptable performance, particularly for cabins and other buildings where large temperature differences between bedrooms and main rooms are acceptable. The models can be fired with natural gas or propane, and some burn kerosene.
Unvented Gas-Fired Heaters: A Bad Idea
Gas or kerosene space heaters that do not have an exhaust vent have been sold for decades, but we strongly discourage their use for health and safety reasons. Known as “vent-free” gas heating appliances by manufacturers, they include wall-mounted and free-standing heaters as well as open-flame gas fireplaces with ceramic logs that are not actually connected to a chimney. Manufacturers claim that because the products’ combustion efficiency is very high, they are safe for building occupants. However, this claim is only valid if you keep a nearby window open for adequate fresh air— which defeats the purpose of supplemental heat. Dangers include exposure to combustion by-products, as discussed in Ventilation, and oxygen depletion (these heaters must be equipped with oxygen depletion sensors). Because of these hazards, at least five states (California, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Montana, and Alaska) prohibit their use in homes, and many cities in the United States and Canada have banned them as well.
Electric Space Heaters
Portable (plug-in) electric heaters are inexpensive to buy, but costly to use. These resistive heaters include “oil-filled” and “quartz-infrared” heaters. They convert electric current from the wall socket directly into heat, like a toaster or clothes iron. As explained further under “Selecting a New System,” it takes a lot of electricity to deliver the same amount of useful heat that natural gas or oil can provide onsite. A 1,500- watt plug-in heater will use almost the entire capacity of a 15-amp branch circuit; thus, adding much additional load will trip the circuit breaker or blow the fuse. The cost to operate a 1,500-watt unit for an hour is simple to compute: it is 1.5 times your electricity cost in cents per kilowatt-hour. At national average rates—12¢ kWh for electricity— that heater would cost 18¢ per hour to run—and quickly cost more than its purchase price. On the other hand, for intermittent use, it is the “least-bad” solution when alternatives would require major investments to improve ductwork for a specific area, for example. Just remember, electric resistance heat is usually the most expensive form of heat, and it is, therefore, seldom recommended.
“Electric baseboard heat” is yet another kind of resistive heating, similar to a plug-in space heater except that it is hard-wired. It has two principal virtues: the installation cost is low, and it is easy to install individual room thermostats so you can turn down the heat in rooms that aren’t being used. Operating costs, as for all resistive systems, are generally very high, unless the house is “super-insulated.”
Wood-Burning and Pellet Stoves
Wood heating can make a great deal of sense in rural areas if you enjoy stacking wood and stoking the stove or furnace. Wood prices are generally lower than gas, oil, or electricity. If you cut your own wood, the savings can be large. Pollutants from wood burning have been a problem in some parts of the country, causing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to implement regulations that govern pollution emissions from wood stoves. As a result, new models are quite clean-burning. Pellet stoves offer a number of advantages over wood stoves. They are less polluting than wood stoves and offer users greater convenience, temperature control, and indoor air quality.
Fireplaces
Gas (and most wood) fireplaces are basically part of a room’s décor, providing a warm glow (and a way to dispose of secret documents), but typically not an effective heat source. With customary installations that rely on air drawn from the room into the fireplace for combustion and dilution, the fireplace will generally lose more heat than it provides, because so much warm air is drawn through the unit and must be replaced by cold outside air. On the other hand, if the fireplace is provided with a tight-sealing glass door, a source of outside air, and a good chimney damper, it can provide useful heat.
State of the Art Heating
Radiant floor heat generally refers to systems that circulate warm water in tubes under the floor. This warms the floor, which in turn warms people using the room. It is highly controllable, considered efficient by its advocates, and is expensive to install. It also requires a very experienced system designer and installer, and limits carpet choices and other floor finishes: you don’t want to “blanket” your heat source.
Contact the Radiant Panel Association(link is external)
Ductless, Mini-Split, Multi-Split. Residential ductwork is relatively rare outside North America. “Ductless” heat pumps, which distribute energy through refrigerant lines instead of water or air, are widely used. Large field trials in the Pacific Northwest suggest that they can have good cold weather performance, and be very cost-effective where replacing electric resistance heating. Like ground-source systems, relative immaturity of the market helps assure that whole-house multi-split systems carry premium prices.
Combined heat and power (CHP) or cogeneration for houses is being seriously studied in some countries. The basic premise is to use a small generator to meet some of the electric demand of the house, and recover the waste heat (typically more than 70% of the heating value of the fuel) to heat the house (hydronic or water-to-air systems) and make domestic hot water. These systems are not yet widely available. They are likely to have the best economics in houses with high heating bills because the house cannot be feasibly insulated, such as solid stone or brick homes.
https://smarterhouse.org/heating-systems/types-heating-systems
How One Can Avoid High Heating Repair Expenses
There are a few ways to maintain your furnace system. Odds are, during wintertime months your heater is on all day trying to keep the house warm. furnace systems commonly run more than needed, because of incorrect settings. When trouble shooting and optimizing your heating segment of your furnace system, there are several things to examine.
The Air Filter
This subject is what gets referred to probably the most in talks about furnace maintenance, but is sometimes neglected. When there is a obstruction, you either run the chance of not circulating heat effectively or perhaps igniting a fire.When the filter becomes dirty air cannot flow through as well which suggests the unit must work overtime and will also mean a risk of fire. If the system is not circulating heat properly, it will be working harder. You want eliminate any likelihood of fire. In both cases it is not suitable for reassurance or your funds.
Test The Blower
Look at the blower blades to ensure they are clean. A messy fan will work overtime to blow air around and of course use higher energy to maintain the temperature level you choose it at. This means the system is overworking and costing extra money to run.
Fire Damper Function
Be sure to look at your fire damper for proper functioning. The fire damper is self-explanatory so take note of this factor.
The Flex Duct
It is feasible that your ducts became impaired throughout the years for a variety of reasons. If a duct has flattened or become blocked, the system will believe that the proper temperature has been achieved, which will not be true. When this happens the system works harder to do its job but will be unable to attain the right tempurature.
Make Sure The Insulation Is Secure
Insulation is usually ignored but is perhaps the most regular explanations why an furnace system malfunctions. Take the time to focus on the insulation between the duct work and the outside to ensure it has not come loose. When this happens furnace will work more than needed while trying to reach optimal temperature.
Air Ducts Need To Be Sealed
Make sure the ductwork is connected in all places to all sections. Disconnected ductwork will permit hot air leak out and of course add to the running costs.
Check For Leaks In The Return Air Inlets And The Zone Dampers
Check to see that return air intakes are free of debris and dust so air can easily flow. Look at your dampers to verify that they are in the best spot. Throughout the year we could change the position of the damper for a lot of reasons (i.e. getting in a tight space or arranging for storage). For a properly working system, look to see that the dampers are in the best place.
If these everyday jobs are beyond what you are comfortable with, it may be a good idea to hire a local heating service licensed for furnace and gas furnaces. There will be numerous heating contractors close to you who can care for all of this quite skillfully. The most sage advice we can provide is to set up annual maintenance for this appliance.
https://www.google.com/maps?cid=16109373416364653742 https://vancouver-plumber.business.site/
https://www.pioneerplumbing.com/
Pioneer Plumbing & Heating Inc
626 Kingsway, Vancouver BC, V5T 3K4 Phone: (604) 872-4946
Business Hours: Sunday Open 24 hours Monday Open 24 hours Tuesday Open 24 hours Wednesday Open 24 hours Thursday Open 24 hours Friday Open 24 hours Saturday Open 24 hours
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Pioneer Plumbing has built a reputation of honesty with our long time returning customers. We’ve found that “doing the right thing” in all aspects of our company has brought us to where we are today, and will continue to guide us into the future. Don’t hesitate to call and ask us any plumbing, heating, ventilation, or gas related questions. Chances are if you have a tricky issue, we can solve it.
We have a few goals for our clients. One is to be available for you. It is very uncommon that when you call us we are unable to make it within the same day. We give our repeat customers priority service so if you’ve used us before and you have an emergency, we are going to do what we need to, to get someone there.
Two is to be upfront and honest. From our quotes to our service techs on site, we don’t like to beat around the bush. We will let you know our concerns, our recommendations, and our opinions on how we would handle each situation as if it were our own residence where the problem occurred. We won’t tell you the job is only a 2 hour repair when we have had situations where it turned into an all day repair.
Three is to stand behind our installations and repairs. With mechanical work, it is very common for jobs to get larger or go sideways as you get into them. If we give you a quote we will stand true to the price, if we complete a job for you and you are unhappy with the finished product, we will come back and make it right. In return, all we ask is that you communicate with our office respectfully and honestly so that we can make sure at the end of the day you are happy with our services!
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Central Heat
Furnaces
The majority of North American households depend on a central furnace to provide heat. A furnace works by blowing heated air through ducts that deliver the warm air to rooms throughout the house via air registers or grills. This type of heating system is called a ducted warm-air or forced warm-air distribution system. It can be powered by electricity, natural gas, or fuel oil.
Inside a gas- or oil-fired furnace, the fuel is mixed with air and burned. The flames heat a metal heat exchanger where the heat is transferred to air. Air is pushed through the heat exchanger by the “air handler’s” furnace fan and then forced through the ductwork downstream of the heat exchanger. At the furnace, combustion products are vented out of the building through a flue pipe. Older “atmospheric” furnaces vented directly to the atmosphere, and wasted about 30% of the fuel energy just to keep the exhaust hot enough to safely rise through the chimney. Current minimum-efficiency furnaces reduce this waste substantially by using an “inducer” fan to pull the exhaust gases through the heat exchanger and induce draft in the chimney. “Condensing” furnaces are designed to reclaim much of this escaping heat by cooling exhaust gases well below 140°F, where water vapor in the exhaust condenses into water. This is the primary feature of a high-efficiency furnace (or boiler). These typically vent through a sidewall with a plastic pipe.
New furnace standards are currently under development by the U.S. Department of Energy, and are due to be finalized in the spring of 2016. The current furnace standards have not been updated since 1987.
Heating system controls regulate when the various components of the heating system turn on and off. The most important control from your standpoint is the thermostat, which turns the system — or at least the distribution system — on and off to keep you comfortable. A typical forced air system will have a single thermostat. But, there are other internal controls in a heating system, such as “high limit” switches that are part of an invisible but critical set of safety controls.
The best gas furnaces and boilers today have efficiencies over 90%
The efficiency of a fossil-fuel furnace or boiler is a measure of the amount of useful heat produced per unit of input energy (fuel). Combustion efficiency is the simplest measure; it is just the system’s efficiency while it is running. Combustion efficiency is like the miles per gallon your car gets cruising along at 55 miles per hour on the highway.
In the U.S., furnace efficiency is regulated by minimum AFUE (Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency). AFUE estimates seasonal efficiency, averaging peak and part-load situations. AFUE accounts for start-up, cool-down, and other operating losses that occur in real operating conditions, and includes an estimate of electricity used by the air handler, inducer fan, and controls. AFUE is like your car mileage between fill-ups, including both highway driving and stop-and-go traffic. The higher the AFUE, the more efficient the furnace or boiler.
Boilers
Boilers are special-purpose water heaters. While furnaces carry heat in warm air, boiler systems distribute the heat in hot water, which gives up heat as it passes through radiators or other devices in rooms throughout the house. The cooler water then returns to the boiler to be reheated. Hot water systems are often called hydronic systems. Residential boilers generally use natural gas or heating oil for fuel.
In steam boilers, which are much less common in homes today, the water is boiled and steam carries heat through the house, condensing to water in the radiators as it cools. Oil and natural gas are commonly used.
Instead of a fan and duct system, a boiler uses a pump to circulate hot water through pipes to radiators. Some hot water systems circulate water through plastic tubing in the floor, a system called radiant floor heating (see “State of the Art Heating”). Important boiler controls include thermostats, aquastats, and valves that regulate circulation and water temperature. Although the cost is not trivial, it is generally much easier to install “zone” thermostats and controls for individual rooms with a hydronic system than with forced air. Some controls are standard features in new boilers, while others can be added on to save energy (see the “Modifications by Heating System Technicians” section on the heating maintenance page).
As with furnaces, condensing gas-fired boilers are relatively common, and significantly more efficient than non-condensing boilers (unless very sophisticated controls are employed). Oil-fired condensing boilers are uncommon in the U.S. for several reasons related to lower latent heat potential, and potential for greater fouling with conventional fuel oil.
Heat Pumps
Heat pumps are just two-way air conditioners (see detailed description in the cooling systems section). During the summer, an air conditioner works by moving heat from the relatively cool indoors to the relatively warm outside. In winter, the heat pump reverses this trick, scavenging heat from the cold outdoors with the help of an electrical system, and discharging that heat inside the house. Almost all heat pumps use forced warm-air delivery systems to move heated air throughout the house.
A ground-source heat pump heats and cools in any climate by exchanging heat with the ground, which has a more constant temperature.
There are two relatively common types of heat pumps. Air-source heat pumps use the outside air as the heat source in winter and heat sink in summer. Ground-source (also called geothermal, GeoExchange, or GX) heat pumps get their heat from underground, where temperatures are more constant year-round. Air-source heat pumps are far more common than ground-source heat pumps because they are cheaper and easier to install. Ground-source heat pumps, however, are much more efficient, and are frequently chosen by consumers who plan to remain in the same house for a long time, or have a strong desire to live more sustainably. How to determine whether a heat pump makes sense in your climate is discussed further under “Fuel Options.”
Whereas an air-source heat pump is installed much like a central air conditioner, ground-source heat pumps require that a “loop” be buried in the ground, usually in long, shallow (3–6' deep) trenches or in one or more vertical boreholes. The particular method used will depend on the experience of the installer, the size of your lot, the subsoil, and the landscape. Alternatively, some systems draw in groundwater and pass it through the heat exchanger instead of using a refrigerant. The groundwater is then returned to the aquifer.
Because electricity in a heat pump is used to move heat rather than to generate it, the heat pump can deliver more energy than it consumes. The ratio of delivered heating energy to consumed energy is called the coefficient of performance, or COP, with typical values ranging from 1.5 to 3.5. This is a “steady-state” measure and not directly comparable to the heating season performance factor (HSPF), a seasonal measure mandated for rating the heating efficiency of air-source heat pumps. Converting between the measures is not straightforward, but ground-source units are generally more efficient than air-source heat pumps.
Direct Heat
Gas-Fired Space Heaters
In some areas, gas-fired direct heating equipment is popular. This includes wall-mounted, free-standing, and floor furnaces, all characterized by their lack of ductwork and relatively small heat output. Because they lack ducts, they are most useful for warming a single room. If heating several rooms is required, either the doors between rooms must be left open or another heating method is necessary. Better models use “sealed combustion air” systems, with pipes installed through the wall to both provide combustion air and carry off the combustion products. These units can provide acceptable performance, particularly for cabins and other buildings where large temperature differences between bedrooms and main rooms are acceptable. The models can be fired with natural gas or propane, and some burn kerosene.
Unvented Gas-Fired Heaters: A Bad Idea
Gas or kerosene space heaters that do not have an exhaust vent have been sold for decades, but we strongly discourage their use for health and safety reasons. Known as “vent-free” gas heating appliances by manufacturers, they include wall-mounted and free-standing heaters as well as open-flame gas fireplaces with ceramic logs that are not actually connected to a chimney. Manufacturers claim that because the products’ combustion efficiency is very high, they are safe for building occupants. However, this claim is only valid if you keep a nearby window open for adequate fresh air— which defeats the purpose of supplemental heat. Dangers include exposure to combustion by-products, as discussed in Ventilation, and oxygen depletion (these heaters must be equipped with oxygen depletion sensors). Because of these hazards, at least five states (California, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Montana, and Alaska) prohibit their use in homes, and many cities in the United States and Canada have banned them as well.
Electric Space Heaters
Portable (plug-in) electric heaters are inexpensive to buy, but costly to use. These resistive heaters include “oil-filled” and “quartz-infrared” heaters. They convert electric current from the wall socket directly into heat, like a toaster or clothes iron. As explained further under “Selecting a New System,” it takes a lot of electricity to deliver the same amount of useful heat that natural gas or oil can provide onsite. A 1,500- watt plug-in heater will use almost the entire capacity of a 15-amp branch circuit; thus, adding much additional load will trip the circuit breaker or blow the fuse. The cost to operate a 1,500-watt unit for an hour is simple to compute: it is 1.5 times your electricity cost in cents per kilowatt-hour. At national average rates—12¢ kWh for electricity— that heater would cost 18¢ per hour to run—and quickly cost more than its purchase price. On the other hand, for intermittent use, it is the “least-bad” solution when alternatives would require major investments to improve ductwork for a specific area, for example. Just remember, electric resistance heat is usually the most expensive form of heat, and it is, therefore, seldom recommended.
“Electric baseboard heat” is yet another kind of resistive heating, similar to a plug-in space heater except that it is hard-wired. It has two principal virtues: the installation cost is low, and it is easy to install individual room thermostats so you can turn down the heat in rooms that aren’t being used. Operating costs, as for all resistive systems, are generally very high, unless the house is “super-insulated.”
Wood-Burning and Pellet Stoves
Wood heating can make a great deal of sense in rural areas if you enjoy stacking wood and stoking the stove or furnace. Wood prices are generally lower than gas, oil, or electricity. If you cut your own wood, the savings can be large. Pollutants from wood burning have been a problem in some parts of the country, causing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to implement regulations that govern pollution emissions from wood stoves. As a result, new models are quite clean-burning. Pellet stoves offer a number of advantages over wood stoves. They are less polluting than wood stoves and offer users greater convenience, temperature control, and indoor air quality.
Fireplaces
Gas (and most wood) fireplaces are basically part of a room’s décor, providing a warm glow (and a way to dispose of secret documents), but typically not an effective heat source. With customary installations that rely on air drawn from the room into the fireplace for combustion and dilution, the fireplace will generally lose more heat than it provides, because so much warm air is drawn through the unit and must be replaced by cold outside air. On the other hand, if the fireplace is provided with a tight-sealing glass door, a source of outside air, and a good chimney damper, it can provide useful heat.
State of the Art Heating
Radiant floor heat generally refers to systems that circulate warm water in tubes under the floor. This warms the floor, which in turn warms people using the room. It is highly controllable, considered efficient by its advocates, and is expensive to install. It also requires a very experienced system designer and installer, and limits carpet choices and other floor finishes: you don’t want to “blanket” your heat source.
Contact the Radiant Panel Association(link is external)
Ductless, Mini-Split, Multi-Split. Residential ductwork is relatively rare outside North America. “Ductless” heat pumps, which distribute energy through refrigerant lines instead of water or air, are widely used. Large field trials in the Pacific Northwest suggest that they can have good cold weather performance, and be very cost-effective where replacing electric resistance heating. Like ground-source systems, relative immaturity of the market helps assure that whole-house multi-split systems carry premium prices.
Combined heat and power (CHP) or cogeneration for houses is being seriously studied in some countries. The basic premise is to use a small generator to meet some of the electric demand of the house, and recover the waste heat (typically more than 70% of the heating value of the fuel) to heat the house (hydronic or water-to-air systems) and make domestic hot water. These systems are not yet widely available. They are likely to have the best economics in houses with high heating bills because the house cannot be feasibly insulated, such as solid stone or brick homes.
https://smarterhouse.org/heating-systems/types-heating-systems
Why Heating Repair is Inescapable When Maintenance Is Forgotten
You can maintain an furnace system numerous different ways. Odds are, during winter months your furnace is on all day trying to keep the house warm. In fact, it is probably on more than it needs to be because it is incapable of maintaining an efficient climate. When trouble shooting and optimizing your heating segment of your furnace system, there are various things to check out.
The Air Filter
This subject is what gets talked about probably the most in chats about furnace maintenance, but is sometimes overlooked. When there is a obstruction, you either run the risk of not disbursing heat effectively or possibly starting a fire.When the air conditioner filter gets dirty air cannot flow through as well which means the unit must work overtime and will also mean a risk of fire. If the system is not circulating heat properly, it will be working overtime. You want eliminate any likelihood of fire. Neither scenario is good for your wallet or your well-being..
Test The Blower
Look at the blower blades and clean them up. A grimy fan will work overtime to blow the air around and of course use more energy to maintain the thermostat level you choose it at. This implies strain on your furnace system and your wallet since more fuel is required to continually run the blower.
Fire Damper Function
Next, look at the fire damper to ensure it is running correctly. The fire damper is self-explanatory so take note of this aspect.
Look For Holes In The Flex Duct
It is feasible that your ducts became impaired over the years for various reasons. If a duct has flattened or become stopped up, your system will believe that the proper temperature has been achieved, which will not be true. Finally your equipment will be working harder to keep your home cool as you continue lowering the temperature to reach comfy settings.
Make Sure The Insulation Is Secure
It is easy to overlook the insulation, but is one of the most typical reason behind a system malfunctioning. Take the time to focus on the insulation between the duct work and the exterior to make sure it has not come loose. If this has happened, your equipment will not reach ideal temperatures and will work too hard to attempt to accommodate.
Air Ducts Need To Be Sealed
Make sure the ductwork is hooked up in all places to all sections. These detachments may cause gaps in the air movement and cause a loss of hot air in your house, since it is going to be leaking out through the holes.
Return Air Inlets And Zone Dampers
Be certain to check that return air intakes are clean and in working order or your system will be out of balance. Check your dampers verifying they are in the right spot. Throughout the year we may change the positioning of the damper for a lot of reasons (i.e. getting in a tight space or arranging for storage). For a properly working system, check to see that your dampers are in the best place.
If this is a little too much to handle alone, we propose you hire an area plumbing business licensed for furnace and heating repair. You should be able to locate a good heating company who can manage this for you. The best advice we can provide is to set up annual maintenance for this appliance.
https://www.google.com/maps?cid=16109373416364653742 https://vancouver-plumber.business.site/
https://www.pioneerplumbing.com/
Pioneer Plumbing & Heating Inc
626 Kingsway, Vancouver BC, V5T 3K4 Phone: (604) 872-4946
Business Hours: Sunday Open 24 hours Monday Open 24 hours Tuesday Open 24 hours Wednesday Open 24 hours Thursday Open 24 hours Friday Open 24 hours Saturday Open 24 hours
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We have a few goals for our clients. One is to be available for you. It is very uncommon that when you call us we are unable to make it within the same day. We give our repeat customers priority service so if you’ve used us before and you have an emergency, we are going to do what we need to, to get someone there.
Two is to be upfront and honest. From our quotes to our service techs on site, we don’t like to beat around the bush. We will let you know our concerns, our recommendations, and our opinions on how we would handle each situation as if it were our own residence where the problem occurred. We won’t tell you the job is only a 2 hour repair when we have had situations where it turned into an all day repair.
Three is to stand behind our installations and repairs. With mechanical work, it is very common for jobs to get larger or go sideways as you get into them. If we give you a quote we will stand true to the price, if we complete a job for you and you are unhappy with the finished product, we will come back and make it right. In return, all we ask is that you communicate with our office respectfully and honestly so that we can make sure at the end of the day you are happy with our services!
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Types of Heating Systems
Central Heat
Furnaces
The majority of North American households depend on a central furnace to provide heat. A furnace works by blowing heated air through ducts that deliver the warm air to rooms throughout the house via air registers or grills. This type of heating system is called a ducted warm-air or forced warm-air distribution system. It can be powered by electricity, natural gas, or fuel oil.
Inside a gas- or oil-fired furnace, the fuel is mixed with air and burned. The flames heat a metal heat exchanger where the heat is transferred to air. Air is pushed through the heat exchanger by the “air handler’s” furnace fan and then forced through the ductwork downstream of the heat exchanger. At the furnace, combustion products are vented out of the building through a flue pipe. Older “atmospheric” furnaces vented directly to the atmosphere, and wasted about 30% of the fuel energy just to keep the exhaust hot enough to safely rise through the chimney. Current minimum-efficiency furnaces reduce this waste substantially by using an “inducer” fan to pull the exhaust gases through the heat exchanger and induce draft in the chimney. “Condensing” furnaces are designed to reclaim much of this escaping heat by cooling exhaust gases well below 140°F, where water vapor in the exhaust condenses into water. This is the primary feature of a high-efficiency furnace (or boiler). These typically vent through a sidewall with a plastic pipe.
New furnace standards are currently under development by the U.S. Department of Energy, and are due to be finalized in the spring of 2016. The current furnace standards have not been updated since 1987.
Heating system controls regulate when the various components of the heating system turn on and off. The most important control from your standpoint is the thermostat, which turns the system — or at least the distribution system — on and off to keep you comfortable. A typical forced air system will have a single thermostat. But, there are other internal controls in a heating system, such as “high limit” switches that are part of an invisible but critical set of safety controls.
The best gas furnaces and boilers today have efficiencies over 90%
The efficiency of a fossil-fuel furnace or boiler is a measure of the amount of useful heat produced per unit of input energy (fuel). Combustion efficiency is the simplest measure; it is just the system’s efficiency while it is running. Combustion efficiency is like the miles per gallon your car gets cruising along at 55 miles per hour on the highway.
In the U.S., furnace efficiency is regulated by minimum AFUE (Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency). AFUE estimates seasonal efficiency, averaging peak and part-load situations. AFUE accounts for start-up, cool-down, and other operating losses that occur in real operating conditions, and includes an estimate of electricity used by the air handler, inducer fan, and controls. AFUE is like your car mileage between fill-ups, including both highway driving and stop-and-go traffic. The higher the AFUE, the more efficient the furnace or boiler.
Boilers
Boilers are special-purpose water heaters. While furnaces carry heat in warm air, boiler systems distribute the heat in hot water, which gives up heat as it passes through radiators or other devices in rooms throughout the house. The cooler water then returns to the boiler to be reheated. Hot water systems are often called hydronic systems. Residential boilers generally use natural gas or heating oil for fuel.
In steam boilers, which are much less common in homes today, the water is boiled and steam carries heat through the house, condensing to water in the radiators as it cools. Oil and natural gas are commonly used.
Instead of a fan and duct system, a boiler uses a pump to circulate hot water through pipes to radiators. Some hot water systems circulate water through plastic tubing in the floor, a system called radiant floor heating (see “State of the Art Heating”). Important boiler controls include thermostats, aquastats, and valves that regulate circulation and water temperature. Although the cost is not trivial, it is generally much easier to install “zone” thermostats and controls for individual rooms with a hydronic system than with forced air. Some controls are standard features in new boilers, while others can be added on to save energy (see the “Modifications by Heating System Technicians” section on the heating maintenance page).
As with furnaces, condensing gas-fired boilers are relatively common, and significantly more efficient than non-condensing boilers (unless very sophisticated controls are employed). Oil-fired condensing boilers are uncommon in the U.S. for several reasons related to lower latent heat potential, and potential for greater fouling with conventional fuel oil.
Heat Pumps
Heat pumps are just two-way air conditioners (see detailed description in the cooling systems section). During the summer, an air conditioner works by moving heat from the relatively cool indoors to the relatively warm outside. In winter, the heat pump reverses this trick, scavenging heat from the cold outdoors with the help of an electrical system, and discharging that heat inside the house. Almost all heat pumps use forced warm-air delivery systems to move heated air throughout the house.
A ground-source heat pump heats and cools in any climate by exchanging heat with the ground, which has a more constant temperature.
There are two relatively common types of heat pumps. Air-source heat pumps use the outside air as the heat source in winter and heat sink in summer. Ground-source (also called geothermal, GeoExchange, or GX) heat pumps get their heat from underground, where temperatures are more constant year-round. Air-source heat pumps are far more common than ground-source heat pumps because they are cheaper and easier to install. Ground-source heat pumps, however, are much more efficient, and are frequently chosen by consumers who plan to remain in the same house for a long time, or have a strong desire to live more sustainably. How to determine whether a heat pump makes sense in your climate is discussed further under “Fuel Options.”
Whereas an air-source heat pump is installed much like a central air conditioner, ground-source heat pumps require that a “loop” be buried in the ground, usually in long, shallow (3–6' deep) trenches or in one or more vertical boreholes. The particular method used will depend on the experience of the installer, the size of your lot, the subsoil, and the landscape. Alternatively, some systems draw in groundwater and pass it through the heat exchanger instead of using a refrigerant. The groundwater is then returned to the aquifer.
Because electricity in a heat pump is used to move heat rather than to generate it, the heat pump can deliver more energy than it consumes. The ratio of delivered heating energy to consumed energy is called the coefficient of performance, or COP, with typical values ranging from 1.5 to 3.5. This is a “steady-state” measure and not directly comparable to the heating season performance factor (HSPF), a seasonal measure mandated for rating the heating efficiency of air-source heat pumps. Converting between the measures is not straightforward, but ground-source units are generally more efficient than air-source heat pumps.
Direct Heat
Gas-Fired Space Heaters
In some areas, gas-fired direct heating equipment is popular. This includes wall-mounted, free-standing, and floor furnaces, all characterized by their lack of ductwork and relatively small heat output. Because they lack ducts, they are most useful for warming a single room. If heating several rooms is required, either the doors between rooms must be left open or another heating method is necessary. Better models use “sealed combustion air” systems, with pipes installed through the wall to both provide combustion air and carry off the combustion products. These units can provide acceptable performance, particularly for cabins and other buildings where large temperature differences between bedrooms and main rooms are acceptable. The models can be fired with natural gas or propane, and some burn kerosene.
Unvented Gas-Fired Heaters: A Bad Idea
Gas or kerosene space heaters that do not have an exhaust vent have been sold for decades, but we strongly discourage their use for health and safety reasons. Known as “vent-free” gas heating appliances by manufacturers, they include wall-mounted and free-standing heaters as well as open-flame gas fireplaces with ceramic logs that are not actually connected to a chimney. Manufacturers claim that because the products’ combustion efficiency is very high, they are safe for building occupants. However, this claim is only valid if you keep a nearby window open for adequate fresh air— which defeats the purpose of supplemental heat. Dangers include exposure to combustion by-products, as discussed in Ventilation, and oxygen depletion (these heaters must be equipped with oxygen depletion sensors). Because of these hazards, at least five states (California, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Montana, and Alaska) prohibit their use in homes, and many cities in the United States and Canada have banned them as well.
Electric Space Heaters
Portable (plug-in) electric heaters are inexpensive to buy, but costly to use. These resistive heaters include “oil-filled” and “quartz-infrared” heaters. They convert electric current from the wall socket directly into heat, like a toaster or clothes iron. As explained further under “Selecting a New System,” it takes a lot of electricity to deliver the same amount of useful heat that natural gas or oil can provide onsite. A 1,500- watt plug-in heater will use almost the entire capacity of a 15-amp branch circuit; thus, adding much additional load will trip the circuit breaker or blow the fuse. The cost to operate a 1,500-watt unit for an hour is simple to compute: it is 1.5 times your electricity cost in cents per kilowatt-hour. At national average rates—12¢ kWh for electricity— that heater would cost 18¢ per hour to run—and quickly cost more than its purchase price. On the other hand, for intermittent use, it is the “least-bad” solution when alternatives would require major investments to improve ductwork for a specific area, for example. Just remember, electric resistance heat is usually the most expensive form of heat, and it is, therefore, seldom recommended.
“Electric baseboard heat” is yet another kind of resistive heating, similar to a plug-in space heater except that it is hard-wired. It has two principal virtues: the installation cost is low, and it is easy to install individual room thermostats so you can turn down the heat in rooms that aren’t being used. Operating costs, as for all resistive systems, are generally very high, unless the house is “super-insulated.”
Wood-Burning and Pellet Stoves
Wood heating can make a great deal of sense in rural areas if you enjoy stacking wood and stoking the stove or furnace. Wood prices are generally lower than gas, oil, or electricity. If you cut your own wood, the savings can be large. Pollutants from wood burning have been a problem in some parts of the country, causing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to implement regulations that govern pollution emissions from wood stoves. As a result, new models are quite clean-burning. Pellet stoves offer a number of advantages over wood stoves. They are less polluting than wood stoves and offer users greater convenience, temperature control, and indoor air quality.
Fireplaces
Gas (and most wood) fireplaces are basically part of a room’s décor, providing a warm glow (and a way to dispose of secret documents), but typically not an effective heat source. With customary installations that rely on air drawn from the room into the fireplace for combustion and dilution, the fireplace will generally lose more heat than it provides, because so much warm air is drawn through the unit and must be replaced by cold outside air. On the other hand, if the fireplace is provided with a tight-sealing glass door, a source of outside air, and a good chimney damper, it can provide useful heat.
State of the Art Heating
Radiant floor heat generally refers to systems that circulate warm water in tubes under the floor. This warms the floor, which in turn warms people using the room. It is highly controllable, considered efficient by its advocates, and is expensive to install. It also requires a very experienced system designer and installer, and limits carpet choices and other floor finishes: you don’t want to “blanket” your heat source.
Contact the Radiant Panel Association(link is external)
Ductless, Mini-Split, Multi-Split. Residential ductwork is relatively rare outside North America. “Ductless” heat pumps, which distribute energy through refrigerant lines instead of water or air, are widely used. Large field trials in the Pacific Northwest suggest that they can have good cold weather performance, and be very cost-effective where replacing electric resistance heating. Like ground-source systems, relative immaturity of the market helps assure that whole-house multi-split systems carry premium prices.
Combined heat and power (CHP) or cogeneration for houses is being seriously studied in some countries. The basic premise is to use a small generator to meet some of the electric demand of the house, and recover the waste heat (typically more than 70% of the heating value of the fuel) to heat the house (hydronic or water-to-air systems) and make domestic hot water. These systems are not yet widely available. They are likely to have the best economics in houses with high heating bills because the house cannot be feasibly insulated, such as solid stone or brick homes.
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You can maintain an furnace system a number of different ways. Odds are, during wintertime months your furnace runs all day attempting to keep the house warm. furnace systems commonly run longer than needed, due to erroneous settings. When troubleshooting and improving your heating segment of your furnace system, there are several things to check out.
The Air Filter
This subject is what gets mentioned the most in chats about furnace maintenance, but is usually forgotten. If there is a obstruction, you either run the chance of not circulating heat appropriately or perhaps igniting a fire.When the air filter gets dirty air cannot flow through either which means the unit must work harder and will also mean a likelihood of fire. When a furnace works too much, it costs more to run. The fire issue is self-explanatory. In both cases it is not suitable for reassurance or your finances.
Check The Blower
Examine the blower blades to ensure they are clean. A grimy fan will work overtime to blow the air around and of course use more energy to preserve the temperature level you set it at. This means strain in your furnace system and your wallet since more gas is required to continually run the blower.
Fire Damper Function
Next, look at the fire damper to make sure it is running acceptably. This will ensure that the risk of fire is reduced and the system works more efficiently.
Look For Holes In The Flex Duct
It is feasible that your ducts became damaged throughout the years for a variety of reasons. If there are obstructions or if the duct has flattened anywhere the furnace system will think the correct warmth has been achieved, which will be wrong. When this happens the system works too much to do its job but will be incapable to reach the desired temperature range.
Band Insulation
Insulation is usually ignored but is among the most regular explanations why an furnace system does not work properly. Be sure to look at the insulation and confirm it has never become unfastened and caused gaps involving the ductwork and the exterior. When this has happened furnace works more than required while attempting to reach the best temperature.
Ductwork Needs To Be Connected
See that the ductwork does not become detached from other sections. These detachments may cause space in the air movement and result in a loss of hot air in your home, since it will be leaking out through the holes.
Return Air Inlets And The Zone Dampers
Be certain to make sure return air intakes are clean and in good shape or your system will be out of balance. Examine the zone dampers to check if they are in the right place. Throughout the year we may change the positioning of the damper for a lot of reasons (i.e. getting in a tight space or arranging for storage). Check to see that the dampers are actually in the correct position too.
If these everyday jobs are beyond what you are comfortable with, it would be wise to appoint a local heating company licensed for furnace and gas furnaces. You ought to manage to easily find a good heating company who can look after this for you. For the right results you can arrange annual maintenance for furnace and your heating people will call every year to take care of it.
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Types of Heating Systems
Central Heat
Furnaces
The majority of North American households depend on a central furnace to provide heat. A furnace works by blowing heated air through ducts that deliver the warm air to rooms throughout the house via air registers or grills. This type of heating system is called a ducted warm-air or forced warm-air distribution system. It can be powered by electricity, natural gas, or fuel oil.
Inside a gas- or oil-fired furnace, the fuel is mixed with air and burned. The flames heat a metal heat exchanger where the heat is transferred to air. Air is pushed through the heat exchanger by the “air handler’s” furnace fan and then forced through the ductwork downstream of the heat exchanger. At the furnace, combustion products are vented out of the building through a flue pipe. Older “atmospheric” furnaces vented directly to the atmosphere, and wasted about 30% of the fuel energy just to keep the exhaust hot enough to safely rise through the chimney. Current minimum-efficiency furnaces reduce this waste substantially by using an “inducer” fan to pull the exhaust gases through the heat exchanger and induce draft in the chimney. “Condensing” furnaces are designed to reclaim much of this escaping heat by cooling exhaust gases well below 140°F, where water vapor in the exhaust condenses into water. This is the primary feature of a high-efficiency furnace (or boiler). These typically vent through a sidewall with a plastic pipe.
New furnace standards are currently under development by the U.S. Department of Energy, and are due to be finalized in the spring of 2016. The current furnace standards have not been updated since 1987.
Heating system controls regulate when the various components of the heating system turn on and off. The most important control from your standpoint is the thermostat, which turns the system — or at least the distribution system — on and off to keep you comfortable. A typical forced air system will have a single thermostat. But, there are other internal controls in a heating system, such as “high limit” switches that are part of an invisible but critical set of safety controls.
The best gas furnaces and boilers today have efficiencies over 90%
The efficiency of a fossil-fuel furnace or boiler is a measure of the amount of useful heat produced per unit of input energy (fuel). Combustion efficiency is the simplest measure; it is just the system’s efficiency while it is running. Combustion efficiency is like the miles per gallon your car gets cruising along at 55 miles per hour on the highway.
In the U.S., furnace efficiency is regulated by minimum AFUE (Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency). AFUE estimates seasonal efficiency, averaging peak and part-load situations. AFUE accounts for start-up, cool-down, and other operating losses that occur in real operating conditions, and includes an estimate of electricity used by the air handler, inducer fan, and controls. AFUE is like your car mileage between fill-ups, including both highway driving and stop-and-go traffic. The higher the AFUE, the more efficient the furnace or boiler.
Boilers
Boilers are special-purpose water heaters. While furnaces carry heat in warm air, boiler systems distribute the heat in hot water, which gives up heat as it passes through radiators or other devices in rooms throughout the house. The cooler water then returns to the boiler to be reheated. Hot water systems are often called hydronic systems. Residential boilers generally use natural gas or heating oil for fuel.
In steam boilers, which are much less common in homes today, the water is boiled and steam carries heat through the house, condensing to water in the radiators as it cools. Oil and natural gas are commonly used.
Instead of a fan and duct system, a boiler uses a pump to circulate hot water through pipes to radiators. Some hot water systems circulate water through plastic tubing in the floor, a system called radiant floor heating (see “State of the Art Heating”). Important boiler controls include thermostats, aquastats, and valves that regulate circulation and water temperature. Although the cost is not trivial, it is generally much easier to install “zone” thermostats and controls for individual rooms with a hydronic system than with forced air. Some controls are standard features in new boilers, while others can be added on to save energy (see the “Modifications by Heating System Technicians” section on the heating maintenance page).
As with furnaces, condensing gas-fired boilers are relatively common, and significantly more efficient than non-condensing boilers (unless very sophisticated controls are employed). Oil-fired condensing boilers are uncommon in the U.S. for several reasons related to lower latent heat potential, and potential for greater fouling with conventional fuel oil.
Heat Pumps
Heat pumps are just two-way air conditioners (see detailed description in the cooling systems section). During the summer, an air conditioner works by moving heat from the relatively cool indoors to the relatively warm outside. In winter, the heat pump reverses this trick, scavenging heat from the cold outdoors with the help of an electrical system, and discharging that heat inside the house. Almost all heat pumps use forced warm-air delivery systems to move heated air throughout the house.
A ground-source heat pump heats and cools in any climate by exchanging heat with the ground, which has a more constant temperature.
There are two relatively common types of heat pumps. Air-source heat pumps use the outside air as the heat source in winter and heat sink in summer. Ground-source (also called geothermal, GeoExchange, or GX) heat pumps get their heat from underground, where temperatures are more constant year-round. Air-source heat pumps are far more common than ground-source heat pumps because they are cheaper and easier to install. Ground-source heat pumps, however, are much more efficient, and are frequently chosen by consumers who plan to remain in the same house for a long time, or have a strong desire to live more sustainably. How to determine whether a heat pump makes sense in your climate is discussed further under “Fuel Options.”
Whereas an air-source heat pump is installed much like a central air conditioner, ground-source heat pumps require that a “loop” be buried in the ground, usually in long, shallow (3–6' deep) trenches or in one or more vertical boreholes. The particular method used will depend on the experience of the installer, the size of your lot, the subsoil, and the landscape. Alternatively, some systems draw in groundwater and pass it through the heat exchanger instead of using a refrigerant. The groundwater is then returned to the aquifer.
Because electricity in a heat pump is used to move heat rather than to generate it, the heat pump can deliver more energy than it consumes. The ratio of delivered heating energy to consumed energy is called the coefficient of performance, or COP, with typical values ranging from 1.5 to 3.5. This is a “steady-state” measure and not directly comparable to the heating season performance factor (HSPF), a seasonal measure mandated for rating the heating efficiency of air-source heat pumps. Converting between the measures is not straightforward, but ground-source units are generally more efficient than air-source heat pumps.
Direct Heat
Gas-Fired Space Heaters
In some areas, gas-fired direct heating equipment is popular. This includes wall-mounted, free-standing, and floor furnaces, all characterized by their lack of ductwork and relatively small heat output. Because they lack ducts, they are most useful for warming a single room. If heating several rooms is required, either the doors between rooms must be left open or another heating method is necessary. Better models use “sealed combustion air” systems, with pipes installed through the wall to both provide combustion air and carry off the combustion products. These units can provide acceptable performance, particularly for cabins and other buildings where large temperature differences between bedrooms and main rooms are acceptable. The models can be fired with natural gas or propane, and some burn kerosene.
Unvented Gas-Fired Heaters: A Bad Idea
Gas or kerosene space heaters that do not have an exhaust vent have been sold for decades, but we strongly discourage their use for health and safety reasons. Known as “vent-free” gas heating appliances by manufacturers, they include wall-mounted and free-standing heaters as well as open-flame gas fireplaces with ceramic logs that are not actually connected to a chimney. Manufacturers claim that because the products’ combustion efficiency is very high, they are safe for building occupants. However, this claim is only valid if you keep a nearby window open for adequate fresh air— which defeats the purpose of supplemental heat. Dangers include exposure to combustion by-products, as discussed in Ventilation, and oxygen depletion (these heaters must be equipped with oxygen depletion sensors). Because of these hazards, at least five states (California, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Montana, and Alaska) prohibit their use in homes, and many cities in the United States and Canada have banned them as well.
Electric Space Heaters
Portable (plug-in) electric heaters are inexpensive to buy, but costly to use. These resistive heaters include “oil-filled” and “quartz-infrared” heaters. They convert electric current from the wall socket directly into heat, like a toaster or clothes iron. As explained further under “Selecting a New System,” it takes a lot of electricity to deliver the same amount of useful heat that natural gas or oil can provide onsite. A 1,500- watt plug-in heater will use almost the entire capacity of a 15-amp branch circuit; thus, adding much additional load will trip the circuit breaker or blow the fuse. The cost to operate a 1,500-watt unit for an hour is simple to compute: it is 1.5 times your electricity cost in cents per kilowatt-hour. At national average rates—12¢ kWh for electricity— that heater would cost 18¢ per hour to run—and quickly cost more than its purchase price. On the other hand, for intermittent use, it is the “least-bad” solution when alternatives would require major investments to improve ductwork for a specific area, for example. Just remember, electric resistance heat is usually the most expensive form of heat, and it is, therefore, seldom recommended.
“Electric baseboard heat” is yet another kind of resistive heating, similar to a plug-in space heater except that it is hard-wired. It has two principal virtues: the installation cost is low, and it is easy to install individual room thermostats so you can turn down the heat in rooms that aren’t being used. Operating costs, as for all resistive systems, are generally very high, unless the house is “super-insulated.”
Wood-Burning and Pellet Stoves
Wood heating can make a great deal of sense in rural areas if you enjoy stacking wood and stoking the stove or furnace. Wood prices are generally lower than gas, oil, or electricity. If you cut your own wood, the savings can be large. Pollutants from wood burning have been a problem in some parts of the country, causing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to implement regulations that govern pollution emissions from wood stoves. As a result, new models are quite clean-burning. Pellet stoves offer a number of advantages over wood stoves. They are less polluting than wood stoves and offer users greater convenience, temperature control, and indoor air quality.
Fireplaces
Gas (and most wood) fireplaces are basically part of a room’s décor, providing a warm glow (and a way to dispose of secret documents), but typically not an effective heat source. With customary installations that rely on air drawn from the room into the fireplace for combustion and dilution, the fireplace will generally lose more heat than it provides, because so much warm air is drawn through the unit and must be replaced by cold outside air. On the other hand, if the fireplace is provided with a tight-sealing glass door, a source of outside air, and a good chimney damper, it can provide useful heat.
State of the Art Heating
Radiant floor heat generally refers to systems that circulate warm water in tubes under the floor. This warms the floor, which in turn warms people using the room. It is highly controllable, considered efficient by its advocates, and is expensive to install. It also requires a very experienced system designer and installer, and limits carpet choices and other floor finishes: you don’t want to “blanket” your heat source.
Contact the Radiant Panel Association(link is external)
Ductless, Mini-Split, Multi-Split. Residential ductwork is relatively rare outside North America. “Ductless” heat pumps, which distribute energy through refrigerant lines instead of water or air, are widely used. Large field trials in the Pacific Northwest suggest that they can have good cold weather performance, and be very cost-effective where replacing electric resistance heating. Like ground-source systems, relative immaturity of the market helps assure that whole-house multi-split systems carry premium prices.
Combined heat and power (CHP) or cogeneration for houses is being seriously studied in some countries. The basic premise is to use a small generator to meet some of the electric demand of the house, and recover the waste heat (typically more than 70% of the heating value of the fuel) to heat the house (hydronic or water-to-air systems) and make domestic hot water. These systems are not yet widely available. They are likely to have the best economics in houses with high heating bills because the house cannot be feasibly insulated, such as solid stone or brick homes.
https://smarterhouse.org/heating-systems/types-heating-systems
Pioneer Plumbing has built a reputation of honesty with our long time returning customers. We’ve found that “doing the right thing” in all aspects of our company has brought us to where we are today, and will continue to guide us into the future. Don’t hesitate to call and ask us any plumbing, heating, ventilation, or gas related questions. Chances are if you have a tricky issue, we can solve it.
We have a few goals for our clients. One is to be available for you. It is very uncommon that when you call us we are unable to make it within the same day. We give our repeat customers priority service so if you’ve used us before and you have an emergency, we are going to do what we need to, to get someone there.
Two is to be upfront and honest. From our quotes to our service techs on site, we don’t like to beat around the bush. We will let you know our concerns, our recommendations, and our opinions on how we would handle each situation as if it were our own residence where the problem occurred. We won’t tell you the job is only a 2 hour repair when we have had situations where it turned into an all day repair.
Three is to stand behind our installations and repairs. With mechanical work, it is very common for jobs to get larger or go sideways as you get into them. If we give you a quote we will stand true to the price, if we complete a job for you and you are unhappy with the finished product, we will come back and make it right. In return, all we ask is that you communicate with our office respectfully and honestly so that we can make sure at the end of the day you are happy with our services!
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You can maintain an furnace system numerous different ways. Odds are, during winter months your heater runs all day attempting to keep the home warm. In fact, it is usually on more than it needs to be because it is unable to maintain an efficient atmosphere. When troubleshooting and optimizing your heating segment of your furnace system, there are various things to examine.
The Air Filter
This is what you usually hear people talking about most often, but so few individuals take the advice and do anything about it. When there is a blockage, you either run the chance of not distributing heat effectively or possibly igniting a fire.When the filter becomes dirty air cannot flow through as well which suggests the furnace must work harder and will also mean a likelihood of fire. When your furnace works harder, it is more expensive to run. The fire situation is self-explanatory. Neither scenario is good for the pocket book or your well-being..
Test The Blower
Look at your blower blades and clean them up. If you find any buildup of dirt and debris, your fan will work harder to blow the air around, and the heating will be overexerting itself. This means strain on your furnace system and your wallet since more gas is required to continually run the blower.
Check To See That The Fire Damper Works
Be certain to check your fire damper for correct functioning. The fire damper is self-explanatory so take note of this aspect.
The Flex Duct
It is possible that your ducts have become damaged over the years for different reasons. If a duct has flattened or become stopped up, the system will think that the proper temperature has been achieved, which will be false. Ultimately your system will be straining to maintain your home cool while you keep on lowering the thermostat to reach comfortable settings.
Make Sure The Insulation Is Secure
Insulation is often neglected but is perhaps the most frequent reasons why an furnace system does not work properly. Be sure to look at the insulation and confirm it has never become loose and prompted gaps involving the ductwork and of course the outside. If this happens, your system will not reach ideal temperatures and work too much to attempt to accommodate.
Ductwork Needs To Be Connected
Make sure the ductwork is hooked up in all places to all sections. Disconnected ductwork will allow hot air leak out and naturally increase the running costs.
Return Air Inlets And Zone Dampers
Ensure that that return air intakes are free of debris and dust so air can flow easliy. Look at the zone dampers to check if they are in the right spot. Through the year we could change the position of the damper for a lot of reasons (i.e. getting into a tight space or making room for storage). For a properly working system, look to see that your dampers are in the best place.
If these everyday jobs are beyond what you are confident with, it would be a good idea to hire a local heating company licensed for furnace and gas furnaces. There will be numerous heating specialists close to you who will take care of all of this quite competently. The best advice we can provide is to set up yearly maintenance for that appliance.
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Types of Heating Systems
Central Heat
Furnaces
The majority of North American households depend on a central furnace to provide heat. A furnace works by blowing heated air through ducts that deliver the warm air to rooms throughout the house via air registers or grills. This type of heating system is called a ducted warm-air or forced warm-air distribution system. It can be powered by electricity, natural gas, or fuel oil.
Inside a gas- or oil-fired furnace, the fuel is mixed with air and burned. The flames heat a metal heat exchanger where the heat is transferred to air. Air is pushed through the heat exchanger by the “air handler’s” furnace fan and then forced through the ductwork downstream of the heat exchanger. At the furnace, combustion products are vented out of the building through a flue pipe. Older “atmospheric” furnaces vented directly to the atmosphere, and wasted about 30% of the fuel energy just to keep the exhaust hot enough to safely rise through the chimney. Current minimum-efficiency furnaces reduce this waste substantially by using an “inducer” fan to pull the exhaust gases through the heat exchanger and induce draft in the chimney. “Condensing” furnaces are designed to reclaim much of this escaping heat by cooling exhaust gases well below 140°F, where water vapor in the exhaust condenses into water. This is the primary feature of a high-efficiency furnace (or boiler). These typically vent through a sidewall with a plastic pipe.
New furnace standards are currently under development by the U.S. Department of Energy, and are due to be finalized in the spring of 2016. The current furnace standards have not been updated since 1987.
Heating system controls regulate when the various components of the heating system turn on and off. The most important control from your standpoint is the thermostat, which turns the system — or at least the distribution system — on and off to keep you comfortable. A typical forced air system will have a single thermostat. But, there are other internal controls in a heating system, such as “high limit” switches that are part of an invisible but critical set of safety controls.
The best gas furnaces and boilers today have efficiencies over 90%
The efficiency of a fossil-fuel furnace or boiler is a measure of the amount of useful heat produced per unit of input energy (fuel). Combustion efficiency is the simplest measure; it is just the system’s efficiency while it is running. Combustion efficiency is like the miles per gallon your car gets cruising along at 55 miles per hour on the highway.
In the U.S., furnace efficiency is regulated by minimum AFUE (Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency). AFUE estimates seasonal efficiency, averaging peak and part-load situations. AFUE accounts for start-up, cool-down, and other operating losses that occur in real operating conditions, and includes an estimate of electricity used by the air handler, inducer fan, and controls. AFUE is like your car mileage between fill-ups, including both highway driving and stop-and-go traffic. The higher the AFUE, the more efficient the furnace or boiler.
Boilers
Boilers are special-purpose water heaters. While furnaces carry heat in warm air, boiler systems distribute the heat in hot water, which gives up heat as it passes through radiators or other devices in rooms throughout the house. The cooler water then returns to the boiler to be reheated. Hot water systems are often called hydronic systems. Residential boilers generally use natural gas or heating oil for fuel.
In steam boilers, which are much less common in homes today, the water is boiled and steam carries heat through the house, condensing to water in the radiators as it cools. Oil and natural gas are commonly used.
Instead of a fan and duct system, a boiler uses a pump to circulate hot water through pipes to radiators. Some hot water systems circulate water through plastic tubing in the floor, a system called radiant floor heating (see “State of the Art Heating”). Important boiler controls include thermostats, aquastats, and valves that regulate circulation and water temperature. Although the cost is not trivial, it is generally much easier to install “zone” thermostats and controls for individual rooms with a hydronic system than with forced air. Some controls are standard features in new boilers, while others can be added on to save energy (see the “Modifications by Heating System Technicians” section on the heating maintenance page).
As with furnaces, condensing gas-fired boilers are relatively common, and significantly more efficient than non-condensing boilers (unless very sophisticated controls are employed). Oil-fired condensing boilers are uncommon in the U.S. for several reasons related to lower latent heat potential, and potential for greater fouling with conventional fuel oil.
Heat Pumps
Heat pumps are just two-way air conditioners (see detailed description in the cooling systems section). During the summer, an air conditioner works by moving heat from the relatively cool indoors to the relatively warm outside. In winter, the heat pump reverses this trick, scavenging heat from the cold outdoors with the help of an electrical system, and discharging that heat inside the house. Almost all heat pumps use forced warm-air delivery systems to move heated air throughout the house.
A ground-source heat pump heats and cools in any climate by exchanging heat with the ground, which has a more constant temperature.
There are two relatively common types of heat pumps. Air-source heat pumps use the outside air as the heat source in winter and heat sink in summer. Ground-source (also called geothermal, GeoExchange, or GX) heat pumps get their heat from underground, where temperatures are more constant year-round. Air-source heat pumps are far more common than ground-source heat pumps because they are cheaper and easier to install. Ground-source heat pumps, however, are much more efficient, and are frequently chosen by consumers who plan to remain in the same house for a long time, or have a strong desire to live more sustainably. How to determine whether a heat pump makes sense in your climate is discussed further under “Fuel Options.”
Whereas an air-source heat pump is installed much like a central air conditioner, ground-source heat pumps require that a “loop” be buried in the ground, usually in long, shallow (3–6' deep) trenches or in one or more vertical boreholes. The particular method used will depend on the experience of the installer, the size of your lot, the subsoil, and the landscape. Alternatively, some systems draw in groundwater and pass it through the heat exchanger instead of using a refrigerant. The groundwater is then returned to the aquifer.
Because electricity in a heat pump is used to move heat rather than to generate it, the heat pump can deliver more energy than it consumes. The ratio of delivered heating energy to consumed energy is called the coefficient of performance, or COP, with typical values ranging from 1.5 to 3.5. This is a “steady-state” measure and not directly comparable to the heating season performance factor (HSPF), a seasonal measure mandated for rating the heating efficiency of air-source heat pumps. Converting between the measures is not straightforward, but ground-source units are generally more efficient than air-source heat pumps.
Direct Heat
Gas-Fired Space Heaters
In some areas, gas-fired direct heating equipment is popular. This includes wall-mounted, free-standing, and floor furnaces, all characterized by their lack of ductwork and relatively small heat output. Because they lack ducts, they are most useful for warming a single room. If heating several rooms is required, either the doors between rooms must be left open or another heating method is necessary. Better models use “sealed combustion air” systems, with pipes installed through the wall to both provide combustion air and carry off the combustion products. These units can provide acceptable performance, particularly for cabins and other buildings where large temperature differences between bedrooms and main rooms are acceptable. The models can be fired with natural gas or propane, and some burn kerosene.
Unvented Gas-Fired Heaters: A Bad Idea
Gas or kerosene space heaters that do not have an exhaust vent have been sold for decades, but we strongly discourage their use for health and safety reasons. Known as “vent-free” gas heating appliances by manufacturers, they include wall-mounted and free-standing heaters as well as open-flame gas fireplaces with ceramic logs that are not actually connected to a chimney. Manufacturers claim that because the products’ combustion efficiency is very high, they are safe for building occupants. However, this claim is only valid if you keep a nearby window open for adequate fresh air— which defeats the purpose of supplemental heat. Dangers include exposure to combustion by-products, as discussed in Ventilation, and oxygen depletion (these heaters must be equipped with oxygen depletion sensors). Because of these hazards, at least five states (California, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Montana, and Alaska) prohibit their use in homes, and many cities in the United States and Canada have banned them as well.
Electric Space Heaters
Portable (plug-in) electric heaters are inexpensive to buy, but costly to use. These resistive heaters include “oil-filled” and “quartz-infrared” heaters. They convert electric current from the wall socket directly into heat, like a toaster or clothes iron. As explained further under “Selecting a New System,” it takes a lot of electricity to deliver the same amount of useful heat that natural gas or oil can provide onsite. A 1,500- watt plug-in heater will use almost the entire capacity of a 15-amp branch circuit; thus, adding much additional load will trip the circuit breaker or blow the fuse. The cost to operate a 1,500-watt unit for an hour is simple to compute: it is 1.5 times your electricity cost in cents per kilowatt-hour. At national average rates—12¢ kWh for electricity— that heater would cost 18¢ per hour to run—and quickly cost more than its purchase price. On the other hand, for intermittent use, it is the “least-bad” solution when alternatives would require major investments to improve ductwork for a specific area, for example. Just remember, electric resistance heat is usually the most expensive form of heat, and it is, therefore, seldom recommended.
“Electric baseboard heat” is yet another kind of resistive heating, similar to a plug-in space heater except that it is hard-wired. It has two principal virtues: the installation cost is low, and it is easy to install individual room thermostats so you can turn down the heat in rooms that aren’t being used. Operating costs, as for all resistive systems, are generally very high, unless the house is “super-insulated.”
Wood-Burning and Pellet Stoves
Wood heating can make a great deal of sense in rural areas if you enjoy stacking wood and stoking the stove or furnace. Wood prices are generally lower than gas, oil, or electricity. If you cut your own wood, the savings can be large. Pollutants from wood burning have been a problem in some parts of the country, causing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to implement regulations that govern pollution emissions from wood stoves. As a result, new models are quite clean-burning. Pellet stoves offer a number of advantages over wood stoves. They are less polluting than wood stoves and offer users greater convenience, temperature control, and indoor air quality.
Fireplaces
Gas (and most wood) fireplaces are basically part of a room’s décor, providing a warm glow (and a way to dispose of secret documents), but typically not an effective heat source. With customary installations that rely on air drawn from the room into the fireplace for combustion and dilution, the fireplace will generally lose more heat than it provides, because so much warm air is drawn through the unit and must be replaced by cold outside air. On the other hand, if the fireplace is provided with a tight-sealing glass door, a source of outside air, and a good chimney damper, it can provide useful heat.
State of the Art Heating
Radiant floor heat generally refers to systems that circulate warm water in tubes under the floor. This warms the floor, which in turn warms people using the room. It is highly controllable, considered efficient by its advocates, and is expensive to install. It also requires a very experienced system designer and installer, and limits carpet choices and other floor finishes: you don’t want to “blanket” your heat source.
Contact the Radiant Panel Association(link is external)
Ductless, Mini-Split, Multi-Split. Residential ductwork is relatively rare outside North America. “Ductless” heat pumps, which distribute energy through refrigerant lines instead of water or air, are widely used. Large field trials in the Pacific Northwest suggest that they can have good cold weather performance, and be very cost-effective where replacing electric resistance heating. Like ground-source systems, relative immaturity of the market helps assure that whole-house multi-split systems carry premium prices.
Combined heat and power (CHP) or cogeneration for houses is being seriously studied in some countries. The basic premise is to use a small generator to meet some of the electric demand of the house, and recover the waste heat (typically more than 70% of the heating value of the fuel) to heat the house (hydronic or water-to-air systems) and make domestic hot water. These systems are not yet widely available. They are likely to have the best economics in houses with high heating bills because the house cannot be feasibly insulated, such as solid stone or brick homes.
https://smarterhouse.org/heating-systems/types-heating-systems
Pioneer Plumbing has built a reputation of honesty with our long time returning customers. We’ve found that “doing the right thing” in all aspects of our company has brought us to where we are today, and will continue to guide us into the future. Don’t hesitate to call and ask us any plumbing, heating, ventilation, or gas related questions. Chances are if you have a tricky issue, we can solve it.
We have a few goals for our clients. One is to be available for you. It is very uncommon that when you call us we are unable to make it within the same day. We give our repeat customers priority service so if you’ve used us before and you have an emergency, we are going to do what we need to, to get someone there.
Two is to be upfront and honest. From our quotes to our service techs on site, we don’t like to beat around the bush. We will let you know our concerns, our recommendations, and our opinions on how we would handle each situation as if it were our own residence where the problem occurred. We won’t tell you the job is only a 2 hour repair when we have had situations where it turned into an all day repair.
Three is to stand behind our installations and repairs. With mechanical work, it is very common for jobs to get larger or go sideways as you get into them. If we give you a quote we will stand true to the price, if we complete a job for you and you are unhappy with the finished product, we will come back and make it right. In return, all we ask is that you communicate with our office respectfully and honestly so that we can make sure at the end of the day you are happy with our services!
So next time you have a plumbing, heating, cooling, or gas question, repair, or installation you would like quoted, give us a call! Were here to help.
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  Heating Repair And Seasonal Maintenance Tips
You can maintain an furnace system a number of different ways. Chances are good the system will be running full-time in winter. In fact, it is usually on more than it needs to be because it is incapable of maintaining an operable environment. There there are various areas in the heating section to take a look at when troubleshooting for proficiency.
The Air Filter
This subject is what gets brought up the most in discussions about heating maintenance, but is usually neglected. When there is a obstruction, you either run the chance of not circulating heat properly or perhaps igniting a fire.When the air filter becomes dirty air will not flow through as well which means the furnace must work overtime and could also mean a likelihood of fire. When the system works overtime, it is more expensive to run. The fire situation is self-explanatory. Neither situation is good for your wallet or your well-being..
Test The Blower
Check the blower blades and clean them. A grimy fan will work overtime to blow air around and naturally use more energy to preserve the thermostat level you set it at. This means strain in your furnace system and your pocketbook since more gas is required to continually run the blower.
Check To See That The Fire Damper Works
Be sure to look at your fire damper for proper functioning. This will ensure that the fir risk is minimal and the system works more efficiently.
Look For Holes In The Flex Duct
Air ducts get bumped into over the years. If a duct has flattened or become stopped up, the system will think that the proper temperature has been achieved, which will not be true. Inevitably your system will be straining to maintain your house cool while you continue lowering the temperature to get to cozy conditions.
Band Insulation
Insulation is often missed but is perhaps the most prevalent reasons why an furnace system malfunctions. Be sure to check the insulation and validate it has not become unfastened and caused gaps between the ductwork and the exterior. If this happens, your system will not reach optimal temperatures and work overtime to attempt to accommodate.
Ductwork Needs To Be Connected
See that the ductwork has not become separated from other sections. These detachments may cause spaces in the airflow and result in a loss of hot air in your house, since it will be getting out through the spaces.
Check For Leaks In The Return Air Inlets And The Zone Dampers
Be sure to check that return air intakes are dirt free and in good condition or your system will be out of kilter. Check your dampers verifying they are in the best position. Throughout the year we may change the position of the damper for a lot of reasons (i.e. getting into a tight space or making room for storage). Check to notice that the dampers are in the correct position too.
If that is a tad too much to handle on your own, we propose you hire an area plumbing contractor licensed for furnace and heating repair. There will be a number of heating contractors around you who can take care of this all quite skillfully. The best advice we can provide is to establish yearly upkeep for this appliance.
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