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2. Is It Time for a Furnace Upgrade? 10 Warning Signs to ... - AOL

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   Depending on the problem and the age of the furnace, it may be more cost-effective to invest in a replacement furnace instead of making expensive repairs to an old system. 10. Visible Signs of ...

3. Furnace (central heating) - Wikipedia

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   The second category of furnace is the forced-air having atmospheric burner style with a cast-iron or sectional steel heat exchanger. Through the 1950s and 1960s, this style of furnace was used to replace the big, natural draft systems, and was sometimes installed on the existing gravity duct work.

4. Forced-air gas - Wikipedia

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   Older furnaces sometimes relied on gravity instead of a blower to circulate air. [1]Gas-fired forced-air furnaces have a burner in the furnace fueled by natural gas.A blower forces cold air through a heat exchanger and then through duct-work that distributes the hot air through the building. [2]

5. Forced-air - Wikipedia

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   Heat is produced via combustion of fuel. A heat exchanger keeps the combustion byproducts from entering the air stream. A ribbon style (long with holes), inshot (torch-like), or oil type burner is located in the heat exchanger. Ignition is provided by an electric spark, standing pilot, or hot surface igniter.

6. Central heating - Wikipedia

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   In the early medieval Alpine upland, a simpler central heating system where heat travelled through underfloor channels from the furnace room replaced the Roman hypocaust at some places. In Reichenau Abbey a network of interconnected underfloor channels heated the 300 m 2 large assembly room of the monks during the winter months.

7. Phase-out of fossil fuel boilers - Wikipedia

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   The International Energy Agency has said that new gas boilers (or gas furnaces) should be banned no later than 2025. [2] Many installations and appliances have a life-span of 25 years, leading for calls that the bans must take place immediately, or at latest by 2025, because otherwise targets of net zero by 2050 cannot or are unlikely to be ...