Get to know more about your heating system and your options.
As we discussed in “What are the Different Types of Home Heating Systems?” there are two categories of heating appliances—whole house, and single room. On the top half of this page we have pictured the different kinds of emitters that you will find around your home if you have a whole-house central heating furnace or boiler. The bottom half of the page illustrates all the types of single-room heaters.
CENTRAL HEATING SYSTEM HEAT EMITTERS
Hydronic means hot water. These traditional fin style baseboard units are very common and very effective. They use high-temperature water ...
Radiant floors use hot water from the boiler to heat a coil hidden below the finished floor. This heat emitter ...
Cast Iron steam radiators became popular in the late 19th century and were often fired in coal, then oil, and ...
Centrally ducted forced air systems could be used for heating, cooling, or both. These systems have two parts: a) the ...
Each of these fan convector heat emitters receives hot water from the central-heating boiler. First, the water passes through a ...
Panel radiators can work on traditional, high-temperature water generated by an oil, gas, or wood pellet boiler. They also work ...
All these heat emitters are designed to be tied into a central heating boiler. Images courtesy of Myson ...
SINGLE ROOM HEAT EMITTERS
Ductless Mini-Split, Cold Climate Heat Pumps (CCHPs) are single room heaters. A conduit, which houses the power cable, refrigerant tubing, suction ...
Direct-vent gas heaters have the advantage of combusting the fuel right in the room where heat is needed, instead of ...
Even though electric baseboard heaters work on resistance heat which does not have the leveraging effect of a heat pump, ...
A wood stove works great in a home with an open floor plan. In addition to the ambience and comfort ...
A wood pellet stove has a few advantages over traditional wood stoves: A wood pellet stove doesn't need to be ...
A fire in your fireplace gives the room a comforting glow and does warm a small area. The EPA estimates ...
The warmth of an open fire resonates deeply in our species, but 90% of the fire heat goes up the ...
There are a variety of electric resistance heat emitters on the market. Wall and ceiling mounted units are typically found ...