Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-10

room. The cold air win be drawn
from the floor and passed between the
stove and casing out at the top pro-
ducing circulation Of air so a. to heat
evenly all over the room. Room heat
ers as this arrangement IL called will
heat the front part Of store room
when placed in the extreme rear part
OF the building.
If you have a furnace in your house
keep the ashes free from under the
CRATES and keep the smoke nues clean.
\ free draft is necessary. a cast iron
crate Will never burn out either in
furnace or stove if kept free from
ashes underneath. Manufacturers and
dealers know that when CRATES burn
out the fireman is at fault.
If you can't keep warm without over
drafts OPEN g.! day ynur furnace is too
small and you will find it cheaper to
get a larger furnace than to force a
fire tina, will carry the most of your
IuSt up the CHIMNEY.
II YOU have trouble heating some
one room turn off all the other pipes
and force heat into this room for few
minutes and as soon as the warm air
is started TO circulate turn the other
pipes back on. If this does not over
come the trouble get the cold air out
nS ha II &c hoo no hot
air and is blanketing circulation. You
can't pour water into bottle when it
is full nor can You make warm air
flow into room when it is full OF cold
air which is heavier than warm air.
Open g door for the cold air to es-
cape or have cold air pipe put in
to return 10 the furnace or if this is
| inpracticaple open cold air exit in
| the base board TO a channel between
! two srudding and then open that chan
mel into the attic. Get the cold air
out and the warm air will come in.
| II you can't keep comfortable at 20
! degrees by the thermometer place pans
OF water about the house and add more
water to the furnace. Professor Watt
Of the Graham School in Chicago and
other scientists have proved BY ex-
pe-imenting in school rooms that with
plenty Of humidity people will be more
corafo- Ia BILE at 65 degrees than they
heat. The greatest danger in this re-
spect is with hot water and steam
radiators which will give 4 house g
Kiln dried effect unless moisture is
added 10 the rooms as the iron radia-
tors will not allow moisture to es-
cape. The department of agriculture
at Washington now publishes a bulle-
tin upon the necessity of humidity In
heated houses and eminent physicians
attribute bronchial trouble, colds and
pulmonary diseases to overheated.
poorly ventilated and kiln dried houses
Add moisture when using furnace and
add much more moisture when using
stoves, hot water or steam radiators.
If your hot water or steam plant re-
4NSSS ~ 4edl your mouse IN severe
weather and if you are sure you know
how to operate the plant the trouble is
probably in that you have not suffi-
cient radiation. II might be tina, the
boiler is too small but nine to one the
radiation is short. Try adding more
radiators in the cold rooms and the
chances are that the same boiler will
heat your house with a slow fire
whereas forced fire would not do il
, before. 1t was once Impossible to
keep warm in the T.-R building with
twenty-five pounds of steam on the
heating mains and when we remodeled
We trebled the radiation and now five
pounds of steam will cause US to throw
open the windows and the same boiler
is doing the work with far less fuel.
If not in the radiation the boiler
should be replaced with one larger. II
will never pay TO force a fire all of the
time as the fuel goes UP the chimney
before its heat units are utilized This
, Is true in stoves, furnaces and boilers
IF your hot water or steam plants
are allowed to slow down at night and
the house is cold in the morning you
can't expect to heat UP in a minute
Hot water especially is an eQuable
heat slow TO respond and equally slow
to cool off. If properly managed i,
, should be an even heat. Put a
thermostat on which will open the
drafts automatically at night and keer
, the house at an even temperature al
Of the time. If your boiler will no.
, carry fuel enough for this get large,
one. You will save its cost in fuel ant
q YOU will keep warm.
II you have crowded your fire tot
far in stove. furnace or boiler ant
seem to be in danger close the from
= drafts, open the smoke pipe drafts ant
!, blanket the fire wit ha few shovelful
. Of ashes. II the steam Is too stronl
. vent it. If the water is boiling in tn
). radiators shut down the fire, vent tn
. air from the radiators and add col,
% water to the system.
II water or steam radiators refuse t