| Radiant heating is gaining high popularity at present. It's a system of heating a room by heating some of its surfaces such as walls or a floor. The previous system of heating was equipped with radiators that were located in the corners of the room. But the problem with this system was that to heat up the whole room they needed to get very hot, and if a person touched them by chance he could get burned. One more disadvantage of this procedure was that they heated the room irregularly, mostly the space around them while in the opposite corner of the room it was much colder. The up-to-date means of radiant heating is totally different owing to utilizing broad surfaces.
The mechanism of technique is based on thermal radiation and is similar to the previous methods. Temperature and heating radiation are peculiar to any item. The ability of articles to take up heat from nearby structures allows to use heating radiation of the floor to warm your feet, for instance.
Another tool of heating is usually called forced air procedure. Its function is to blow warmed air into the rooms of the house. The disadvantage of this method is that forced air warms small parts of different origin: dust, spores, mold and others, so this system can not be used in the houses where people with allergies live. What is more, hot air has only local action, it does not warm the room. As for radiant heating system, it's designed to let the heat rise uniformly from the floor, in this way, the room is heated evenly and keeps the temperature during longer period of time.
The radiant heating method is highly efficient in large houses. Forced air system works for small houses, but remember about allergy problems. Make sure your house is insulated, so the heat won't be lost through windows chinks or ceiling.
There are three kinds of radiant heating: electric system founded on electric lines, air system founded on hot air under the floor, and hydronics founded on hot water under the floor.
Heating systems are numerous and it's your right to take a decision which one suits your best. But as the practice indicates the most efficient way to warm a house is radiant heating. |
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