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Zone Heating
By Clay Lamb
Zone heating can be defined quite simply as heating the rooms of your home that you are in as opposed to heating the whole house. This simple concept can help to increase your savings as heating costs rise and winter sets in. You could save 20%, even 40% of your total heating costs this winter. One way to utilize this type of heating for your home is to install heating units in different areas of your home. Another would be to utilize one or two furnaces with different dampers directing the heat to a specific area of the house through the duct work in your home. This is a great idea when you are first building a home or are replacing duct work that runs throughout your home. Using a gas or electric heater will actually save you money in the long run as opposed to continuing to use your central heating system. Unused areas of the home really don't need to be heated at all times. The heat in the other rooms of the house will diffuse into those unheated room keeping them from getting to terribly cold in case you need to go in to them. By using zone heating, not only will you be saving money but you'll be helping the environment. With the energy crisis running in the back of everyone's minds and “green” products being the products of tomorrow, utilizing this process of heating only the areas you will be using will be saving more than just the money in your wallet. When shopping around for a gas or electric heater, you need to be aware of the BTU's it gives off. One BTU equals the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit. 5,000 BTU's will heat around 200 square feet of your home. To heat a normal bedroom, between 5,000 and 10,000 BTU's will be needed. 25,000 BTU's will heat 1,000 square feet and 40,000 BTU's will heat 1400 square feet. This being said, be sure that you are buying a unit with enough BTU's to heat the area you need heated, but also be wary that you aren't getting too 'big' of a unit. Too many BTU's will just go to waste if you are heating an area too small for its power. |
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Great tip for helping the environment, combating climate change, and also saving some money. More power to you!
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