Heating your home

Heaters work in such a way that they through one process or another heat the air in your home to make it warm. Radiators first heat water which then goes round your home heating the air that the radiators come in contact with; open fires and blown air heaters heat the air almost directly by burning fuel.

Whatever type of heating you use first think about insulation, if you don’t then the heat may be going straight out of your home again; double glazing and insulation in walls and ceilings should help to keep your heat in and your bills down. If you do have radiators and they are by outside walls or by windows then insulation is especially important. The problem with radiators is indeed that they sit in one place and often they seem to have been put in the worst place where heat is easily lost. Because hot air rises heat from radiators tends to go straight up rather than dispersing out around a room and so rooms may warm up only very slowly.
Under floor heating gets around the problem of conventional radiators by being spread evenly across the floor of a room so that when the air that is heated up rises the entire room is warmed. Under floor heating does still use the method of heating water in a boiler and distributing it via pipes usually the same as with a radiator does and is often used on the same system as other radiators. Under floor heating also has the advantage of course that it keeps your floor and therefore you feet warm where otherwise walking on cold tiles can be very unpleasant.

Blown air heating is fairly new in that it has only recently become popular although ancient Romans did use a version of it and likewise with under floor heating. Blown air heating heats air directly from the fuel source, usually gas. The air is sucked into a gas furnace where it is warmed and then expelled which creates a flow of air around the room so a whole room warms quickly. The problems there may be with a blown air system is the need for several furnaces around a larger home or air will cool by the time it gets to where it is needed and also the system can be quite inefficient with energy partly because of the energy required to blow the air around. Blown air may be the best option if you rarely need heating but when you do you like to have rooms warm up quickly. Blown air is also a good option if you are considering getting air conditioning as you can get systems that can either cool or heat air within one system thereby saving money and space at the same time.

When you do decide to have new heating installed make sure you use a qualified engineer and get quotes from a few first, it may be also that they can give you advice on what type of system is best for your needs, but asking a few will hopefully stop any trying to sell you what they want to sell you instead of what you need.

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