Central heating

[staffslad]

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I am not sure how many people have ducted heating. I have never been to a house with it.

[Arran]

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A housing estate built in the 1970s in my locality originally had hot air central heating as standard. A few houses still have the original air heaters and some have upgraded to more modern air heaters but about 3 out of 4 have changed to a wet central heating with radiators.

Hot air central heating is very common in Canada and there are a few Canadian manufacturers of air heaters. Johnson & Starley is the only remaining British manufacturer.

[Richard1978]

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I heard hot air systems are popular in the parts of the USA which have hot summers & cold winters because the same ducting can be connected to an air conditioner.

[Zincubus]

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My son's wife simply laughed at our wall mounted radiators


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[Arran]

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Old single panel radiators from c1970. They don't even have convector fins on the back.

[Zincubus]

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Our boiler is over 50 years old and still going strong .. possibly not as efficient as the modern ones of course .


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[George 1978]

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Our boiler is over 50 years old and still going strong .. possibly not as efficient as the modern ones of course .

I wish I could say the same about my boiler, except that I have to call someone out each year to start it up again.

[Zincubus]

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I wish I could say the same about my boiler, except that I have to call someone out each year to start it up again.

Ahhh we get the same old bloke to service ours each year ..

£50


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[tex]

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I'm beggining to feel a bit ripped off actually, i pay £30 a month for level two cover with british gas, i have been paying this for 10 years which affords me a annual boiler service and repairs to the boiler and central heating should i need them....i never have, which means i have spent £3,600 on nothing, i am thinking of cancelling this cover but have a horrible feeling the minute i do so the boiler will die. Whats also annoying is that the price you pay for cover depends on your postcode and equivalent cover starts at £12 which seems crazy....haven't decided what to do yet but it makes me angry

[Arran]

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I'm beggining to feel a bit ripped off actually, i pay £30 a month for level two cover with british gas, i have been paying this for 10 years which affords me a annual boiler service and repairs to the boiler and central heating should i need them....i never have, which means i have spent £3,600 on nothing, i am thinking of cancelling this cover but have a horrible feeling the minute i do so the boiler will die. Whats also annoying is that the price you pay for cover depends on your postcode and equivalent cover starts at £12 which seems crazy....haven't decided what to do yet but it makes me angry

Complete waste of money. My solution - befriend a local central heating repairman or two and buy a couple of fan heaters and an electric hot water heater just in case the boiler stops working.

[Arran]

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An old Randall 3060 timeswitch and heating controller from the 1970s. A far cry from the Nest Learning Thermostat.

Believe it or not, you can still buy the Randall (now Danfoss) 3060 as they were popular in council houses.

[Moonraker]

We use to have paraffin heaters. We got our paraffin from a delivery truck. I'm sure it was called Esso Blue with a cartoon character I cannot now recall.
anyway, in the early 80s we had central heating installed with the back boiler behind a gas heater and a large water tank upstairs.