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1. Cold Storage
You can ventilate the room in three ways: automatically, semi-automatically and manually. • Automatic system: If you want to opt for convenience, an automatic system is more expensive than the others, but its controls don't need daily adjustments.
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2. Oil Furnaces
Most Canadian homes, especially older ones, are heated by oil furnaces. In Quebec and the Maritimes, residential heating is almost exclusively by oil. In the conventional oil furnace, heating is accomplished by mixing a spray of oil droplets with air and igniting it to give a flame. To get the most heat, your fuel should be burned completely. The oil-air mixture should use the minimum quantity of air that will give a "clean" flame. Smoke at the tip of the flame will cause soot deposits, and rob you of heat. HOW WELL IS YOUR FURNACE WORKING? THREE WAYS TO FIND OUT YOURSELF: The major care of your oil furnace should be left to a qualified serviceman. But there are a few points that you can look after yourself: • Look for a dirty flame. In the front of your furnace you'll find a flap covering a small hole. You can peek in here to see the flame. (Careful! If your furnace has been on for a couple of minutes the flap will be hot.) Black smoke coming from the tip of the flame is a sure sign that your burner needs adjustment. Call a serviceman. • Check for soot. When your furnace is not operating, take a flashlight and have a look inside the box. How much soot has built up? The more soot, the less efficient the furnace — and the more it's costing you to heat your home. If there's a soot build-up, arrange for an adjustment and cleaning. Even with a well-functioning burner there will be some build-up of soot during the winter. This happens when the burner switches on, before the fuel oil is properly mixed with the air. The same thing happens when the burner switches off. You can buy a "clutch coupling" or "solenoid valve" that will help to counteract this. Your serviceman will have the prices and can install either one for you. • Check the barometric damper. In the diagram of the oil-fired furnace (page 31) you'll see the barometric damper on the pipe leading from furnace to chimney. This valve bumps open and shut as the wind blows and as the furnace cuts in and out. (Occasionally mistaken for a noisy burglar!) It allows cool air to be drawn from the basement into the chimney, acting as a buffer to keep most of the warm air in the furnace. Check the damper and be sure it's swinging freely. If it sticks when you push it, clean the hinges and give them a drop of oil. When the furnace is on, check to see that it opens. If it continues to stick in any position, it means you're wasting energy and money. Call your serviceman. TWICE-A-YEAR SERVICE CAN CUT 10 PER CENT FROM YOUR HEATING BILL Both furnace and burner should be checked and cleaned twice a year — once in summer and once midway through the winter. This will save at least 10 per cent on your fuel bill. For every $400 you now pay for fuel oil, an efficient furnace-burner combination will save you at least $40. If all Canadians saved this 10 per cent, Canada would save $90 million and 7.5 million barrels of oil a year. You can see how every drop we save can swell into big savings for the country. Here are the six important checks your serviceman should carry out twice a year. Make sure he does: • Remove soot The firepot, heat exchanger and pipes should be completely cleaned. Some experts go so far as to say you should be able to see your reflection in the clean heat exchanger. Tell that to your serviceman! • Check stack temperature. The largest heat loss will be in hot gases going up the chimney. To keep this to a minimum, your serviceman should measure the temperature of the gases leaving the furnace. It should be between 300°F (148°C) and 450°F (230°C). Often this temperature is over 600°F (316°C). Much too high. It can be reduced by increasing the speed of the circulating fan. This usually requires an adjustment of the motor pulley. If this doesn't work — or if you have a hot water or steam heating system — possibly the burner is putting out too much heat for the furnace and you need a smaller oil nozzle. • Try a smaller nozzle-size. Try a nozzle-size 20 per cent smaller, or the lowest firing rate recommended for your furnace — whichever results in the greatest improvement. Your flue gas temperature will drop, furnace efficiency will increase and your comfort level should not change. If you feel cold when the furnace is operating, use a nozzle-size only 10 per cent smaller than the original. Better still, improve the insulation in your house. (See the next chapter.) • Check smoke number. Your serviceman should draw a small amount of stack gas through a smoke density measuring device. In an efficient furnace, the stack gas will be virtually free of soot. If not, the burner should be re-tuned. • Check carbon dioxide level. The amount of carbon dioxide in the stack gas will give a further measure of the furnace's thermal efficiency. Measured in this way, the best efficiency you should expect is about 80 to 85 per cent. • Check draft and adjust barometric damper. Your serviceman should check the draft or draw of air through the firebox and in the stack. The barometric damper should be adjusted if necessary. There are a number of other checks and procedures which a good serviceman will undertake. Here is a complete check-list. Ask your serviceman to check off all the items on each visit.
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3. Heat - Setting
Jute-backed carpets are installed in three ways. Wall-to-wall implies the use of professional methods using tackstrip, a wooden strip 1.
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4. Postage Stamps
Some people limit their collecting in different ways; they collect only air mail stamps, or parcel post stamps, or postage due stamps, or stamps reproducing portraits or historical events, or commemorative issues, or one of many stamp categories available.
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5. Model - Making
Model-making can be almost all things to all hobbyists, because so many things can be modeled, and in so many different ways.
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6. Savings In The Kitchen
It's a good place to look for ways to save. There are many, many appliances on the market, all promising to make kitchen work lighter.
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7. Your Stove
Remember that toasting bread in the oven takes three times more energy than in a pop-up toaster. • Don't pre-heat unless necessary.
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8. Contribution Of Trees And Shrubs
Nutlets in groups of three. Birch, Gray (Betula populifolia).
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9. Electricity
In some ways, electricity is better than fossil fuels. It's 100 per cent efficient in use (though not in production); it's cleaner in the home; and, used as a heating source, can allow for individual room temperature control.
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10. Underground Heating Cables
Every Canadian spends cold moments dreaming of ways to clear the driveway without a shovel. "If I just had heating cables under the driveway, the snow would melt as it fell," you mutter.
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