A Home's Oil Furnace The Series Windsor County Vermont Home Buyers Part 1, This is the first part of a three part series about Oil Fired Furnace. A oil furnace in Vermont and New Hampshire, can be a Forced Air Furnace with a ductwork system or a Boiler that heats water to send through a piping system through out the home to heat it. This series mainly talking about a forced air system. I'll be covering other heating systems in other blog posts.
- Upflow - in the basement with upward flow.
- Upflow - in a closer or utility room with upward flow.
- Horizontal - in attic with either side flow.
- Horizontal - in crawl space with either side flow.
- Downflow - on slab floor or crawl space with downward flow.
Just like the of the plumbing and electrical systems of the home, the furnace is a vital system to any given home. And it can be expensive to fix if it should break down for some reason. This is one of the reasons, you should want to have the home your looking at to buy. To have a thorough Inspection of the home.
A Home's Oil Furnace The Series Windsor County Vermont Home Buyers Part 1, in a forced air system, a central furnace uses Oil, Electric, or propane in Vermont and New Hampshire. In other parts of our Gand Country folks have Natural Gas Furnaces. All these furnaces heat the air, which is then forced through the ductwork of the home by a fan until it is blown out into the various rooms of the home. All these systems work very efficiently in that you can raise the temperature in your home when its cold, extremely quickly. They can raise the air temperature 40 degrees in less than an hour.
The main trouble with any forced air system, is that particles of dust are always being blown around, which means that its necessary to constantly change the filter of your furnace. Ones a month is recommended in the winter time. Also another down side to a forced air system, they are not very good at radiant heating. They quickly warm the air of a room but slowly warm the walls, furniture and floors. Thus, in very cold climates, while the air temperature may be a very pleasant 70 degrees, the walls could very will be a much cooler 50 degrees. As a result, as soon as the desired air temperature is reached and your furnace turns off, the walls will begin to cool the air, requiring the furnace to come back on again.
A Home's Oil Furnace The Series Windsor County Vermont Home Buyers Part 1, virtually all forced air furnaces operate on a thermostat. Your Home Inspector should turn the thermostat on and off several times, all the way to high, and then back to low. To be sure the furnace is working functioning properly.
Link to Part 2 of the Series
A Home's Oil Furnace The Series Windsor County Vermont Home Buyers Part 2
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By the time we complete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!
God Bless America, The Land We Love
A home inspection from Baker Home Commercial Properties Inspections and Consulting, will give you peace of mind, so you and your family can enjoy the things you like to do!
Knowledge is Your Power For The Freedom of a Worry- Free Home!
When buying, renting a Home or Commercial Properties when Relocating in or to Sullivan County, New Hampshire, Windsor County, Vermont, or nearby Counties. When "Good Enough" Isn't, call Baker Home Commercial Properties Inspections and Consulting to schedule, Your New Hampshire and Vermont Home or Commercial Property Inspections!
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Links Home Buyers, Home Owners, and Real Esate Agents will want to visit:
Life Expectancy of Home Componts New Hampshire and Vermont
A Home's Oil Furnace The Series Windsor County Vermont Home Buyers Part 1
A Home's Oil Furnace The Series Windsor County Vermont Home Buyers Part 2
A Home's Oil Furnace The Series Windsor County Vermont Home Buyers Part 3
A Home's Oil Furnace The Series Windsor County Vermont Home Buyers Accompany Series Post 1
A Home's Oil Furnace The Series Windsor County Vermont Home Buyers Accompany Series Post 2
A Home's Oil Furnace The Series Windsor County Vermont Home Buyers Accompany Series Post 3
Safety Tip Posts:
When You and Your Family are Going on a Trip, Safety Tips
Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 12 of 12 A Checklist
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Coal Firing Furnaces-New Hampshire and Vermont Series Part one
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Dale
I have to admit that you are a world of knowledge.
We of course don't use oil fired here in Texas...mostly gas and now heat pump electric.
I've know of houses up in the NE that have oil burners. We have Central heat & air here. Which is interesting since we live in the land of oil refineries.
Howdy there Trey
It sure is always a real pleasure to have you stop by to visit, and to read and reply to the comments you leave on the posts, here at my little ole Blogging Homestead, my friend
Thank you kindly, for your kind words!
Folks back home also don't use oil fierd furnaces. But they are the most common in these parts, for heating homes. So I had a bit of learning to do when I first moved up here.
Dale,
You are doing a good job of getting mileage out of those oil furnaces.
Howdy Dale-With these wonderful posts we are all going to be expects on the different type of oil furnaces. Great job. :-)
Howdy there Cindy, Steven, Pat
Real glad to have each of you stop by to visit, and to read and wite a reply back to y'all. On one of the posts, here at my little ole Blogging Homestead, my friends
Cindy - Y'all also live in the land of Nature Gas also.
Steven - just as your geting good mileage out of your series.
Pat - I'm sure glad folks are enjoying reading this series about the Oil Furnace.
Dale I came back by to read some of your comments and saw where I had been here earlier was gone. I think it was the day I was having trouble and kept getting knocked out. I'll have to start all over with my comment. l What price range are we looking at to install one of these systems. I know over here in Texas they are offering some pretty good deals if you buy and Energy Star unit. We are all electric. I had a heat pump in my old unit but when we replaced it a few years back we did not go with a heat pump. We really don't get too much cold weather, if it does get cold it only last a couple days.
Good information. We have lots of oil furnaces in our area as well as underground oil storage tanks. Look forward to reading the other parts to this series.