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A central heating system has a main heating device such as a furnace or boiler located in the safest spot like basement or garage. It provides heat in the entire house either by pushing warmed air through a system of air ducts or sending hot water or steam through pipes to room radiators or convectors. With both forced-air and gravity systems, one (or more) thermostats turn the heating (or cooling) plant off and on, operated either manually or automatically as room temperatures rise and fall.
Homes without central heating normally uses electric baseboard heaters or, in some cases, in-wall or in-floor gas heaters or radiant heat.
Central ducted air systems
Ducted air systems are the most common type of central heating and cooling. If your home has an air conditioner, heat pump, or furnace, it is a ducted air system. There are two main types: forced-air and gravity.
Radiant heating systems
Radiant heat is a comfortable, even type of heat that is radiated into living spaces by hot water, steam, or electric elements.
With a hydronic radiant system, a central boiler heats water; the resulting hot water or steam then circulates through a system of pipes to room radiators or through circuitous routes of tubing that wind beneath a floor’s surface and emit heat.
Electric radiant systems may have electric-resistance baseboard or wall registers or a system of electric cables or foils hidden beneath floors or above ceilings. When an electric current runs through an electric-resistance element, cable, or foil, it generates heat, which is radiated into the room.
Cooling & heating/cooling systems
Air conditioners and heat pumps are also forced-air systems. With these, cooled (and sometimes humidified or electronically cleaned) air is usually delivered through the same ductwork and registers used by heated air.
An air conditioner runs on electricity and removes heat from air with basic refrigeration principles. A heat pump can provide both heating and cooling. In the winter, a heat pump extracts heat from outside air and delivers it indoors. On hot summer days, it works in reverse, extracting heat from room air and pumping it outdoors.
Types of heating equipment
- Electric baseboard heaters
- Heat pumps
- Forced air heating systems
- Glycol heating systems
- Hot water heating systems
- Geothermal systems
Types of Air Conditioning Systems
- Window Air Conditioning System
- Split Air Conditioner System
- Central Air Conditioning Plants
- Packaged Air Conditioners - Types of Packaged AC
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