Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-08-23
KEEP COLD OUT
WARM AIR FURNACE HEATING
AND VENTILATiRG iNsPEc-
TON or 3 BUILDING OFTEN
SHOWS DEFECTS.

4 Copyright 1907 by Edwin Z. Sea-
brock in the Master Sheet Workers
Journal: The season of the year IS
now approa ching when property own
ers will consider the necessary repairs
to their warm air furnaces, or the in
stallation Of new heaters where the
old ones are past repairs. In either
case efficiency Of the heating system
should be made the prime factor, and
not cheapness.
The master sheet metal worker
when called upon to make repairs to
warm air furnaces or install new ones
in old buildings (and in many cases IN
new ones as well) will do well to make /
a thorough examination of the build
ing. S..
In SO doing he may save himself
from the criticism of doing a bad piece
of furnace work when the fault was
with the construction or defects OF the
building itself. .3s8
A house may be SO loosely built
that it is extremely difficult to heat It
properly. 55 ..5 u . @S
No investment that house owner
can make is more profitable than the 1
small sum required to make his build
ing tight and sound, so that 1t will
exclude the cold to the greatest pos
sible extent. His returns in cash Will
equal the total investment in season
or two through the saving en- fuel
bills alone, not counting the returns
in comfort and satisfaction
E Outside walls OF brick or stone
should be a proper thickness consider
ing the size Of building, in accordance
with good building practice, as pre-
scribed by reliable architects, and
they should be well constructed and.
properly plastered inside.
IN frame construction the outer
wooden wall should be lathed and
plastered tightly inside; the studding
should be tightly sheathed outside and
the sheathing covered with heavy
building paper or, preferably, quilt;
then tightly shingled or slapboarded
with matched or lap stuff. Or. to Sc
cure even better results in excluding
the cooling effect Of the outer air, the
| outside walls may be sheathed outside
land inside, "furred OUT inside, lathed
on vertical strips, or double plastered,
4 thus forming two series of dead air
spaces. vs.
I Brick walls may also be provided
with furred spaces in outer walls to
1 secure dead air insulation.
Windows and doors and all frames
/ should be tightly fitted Storm doors
are valuable protection. Double
] windows of proper construction trans
nit only about one-half as much cool
ling effect as single windows.
4 The colder the climate, the greater
! the necessity for constructing the
/ building so as to resist the effects
CT Colu S%WeaIHer. 49,
In a house with an open cellar,
where the cold air can circulate freely
the first-foor rooms cannot be heated
properly, as the floors will always be
lcold
In heating an unceiled attic, the en-
! tire roof exposure should be counted
las. having double the cooling effect of
ordinary wall exposure.
Frequently in heating house tes-
pecially an old house, the services IF
the carpenter, the bricklayer, the plas-
terer and the glazier are equally need
Led with those of the heating contract
Tor. in order to provide proper and
economical heating plant; for the
| problem of heating depends for its
solution upon the ightconstruction Of
the building, just as surely as it de-
mands the proper installation of a
proper heating apparatus.
| Why Not Inspection?
Almost all cities and towns enforce
strict rules regarding plumbing, with
the purposeof preventing those who
erect buildings from installing defec-
tive or unsanitary plumbing work In
/ many places plumbers are required to
pass an examination before they are
licensed ito practice their trade. 1t is
Of much greater Importance to the
public that municipa lities should, in