I live in a entirely cozy, though highly aged home on the west side of town. Many of the houses around mine were built in the 1950’s, plus my own house, so they haven’t aged well internally when it comes to appliances or other equipment indoors. The home has always looked nice from the outside, however the inside entirely needed some updates to catch up to the 21st century! The plumbing was pretty old, plus there were unnecessary landlines for phones still in the walls that felt like an eyesore. However, I was most concerned with the radiator in the dining room, which was practically nothing more than a paperweight! The radiator had been working at maybe ten percent of its original capacity since before I moved in, plus it has been a blight on my life during every passing winter. This year, I had enough of trying to make due with such bad Heating, Ventilation, plus A/C components in the house, so I got in touch with the Heating, Ventilation, plus A/C service professional that usually handles my home’s air conditioning tune-ups. When I pressed him about switching out the radiator, she couldn’t help however laugh! She confessed that she has been waiting for myself and others to say “the radiator has to go” for over a year, as the radiator has never been in great condition! With that in mind, I felt like radiators are likely a dead technology, so I asked what she recommended as a new alternative. She talked to myself and others about radiant floor heating, which is essentially the same concepts behind a radiator however implanted under the floorboards. That sounded exactly like what I wanted to bring my home into the 2000’s with the rest of us!
The different types of thermostats