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Post by elvisuk on Nov 11, 2010 19:33:23 GMT
Why do they call central heating,central heating? as it's not central? it's on the wall under the Window?  
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Post by Lynnrose on Nov 11, 2010 21:42:34 GMT
I wonder what interesting replies you are going to get!
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Post by Angelstardust on Nov 11, 2010 21:50:44 GMT
Ours is central, we sit round a fire.
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Post by ken on Nov 11, 2010 22:48:55 GMT
Mines in the middle of the room, so the smoke can go out the hole in the thatch. Its going 24/7/365, so I can smoke fish, bacon and shrink the heads of carol singers and Jehovah Witnesses. I cook on it, make all my own tools and shoe horses.
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Post by jojo on Nov 15, 2010 15:58:09 GMT
Perhaps it's called central heating because only some areas are properly heated.
Which raises the question. Since central heating control are so complicated, why is it that when you finally get them right, it's time for the boiler to be serviced and put everything back to square one.
Why are raditors always painted white?
Where does all the muck in the radiator system come from?
Why is it so cold in the winter when the thermostat says the temperture is the same as in summer?
And why is there always one more draught. no matter how much to try to cover them all?
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Post by elvisuk on Nov 15, 2010 16:35:02 GMT
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Post by jojo on Nov 15, 2010 19:06:10 GMT
Very nice elvis.
But I'm really questioning why radiators are coloured with the least efficient colour of all.
As well as poor heat transfer, white invariably goes yellow.
Personally, I would like to be able to get things like radiators, fridges and such in a variety of colours, green, blue, red, brown.
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Post by elvisuk on Nov 15, 2010 19:21:36 GMT
Yes i now what you meant Jojo but that is the question "why"  Why do they call central heating, central heating? ;D
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Post by ken on Nov 15, 2010 23:56:06 GMT
Why do people spend so much money in winter, trying to heat their houses to temperatures they complain about in summer???
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Post by elvisuk on Nov 28, 2010 14:04:39 GMT
"I wonder what interesting replies you are going to get!! Well i got a few replies LynnRose, 
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Post by movieman36 on Dec 2, 2010 10:55:22 GMT
Central refers to the fact that the heating section of the system is centralised and not in reference to where that centralised system components are positioned within the home.
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Post by mikkh on Dec 2, 2010 11:30:25 GMT
Well Readybrek is central heating for kids - apparently, so..
Top heating = woolly hat
Side heating = woolly gloves?
Bottom heating = woolly underwear?
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Post by buzzy on Dec 2, 2010 11:41:26 GMT
Mikkh - Love it.  |
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Post by ken on Dec 2, 2010 11:48:30 GMT
My heating is centralised a mile away at the dusties. Or perhaps the little office where they wont open the doors to customers, for fear of getting lynched over the prices they charge for it. At one time heating was provided by buning rubbish. Now thanks to recyling, we have to pay through the nose for diesel to heat the water. They say recycling saves money, try telling that to customers of the MainMet and we cant even opt out of the scheme. I can heat my place cheaper using electric, but I still have to pay the daily charge to MainMet for the pleasure of having their junk installed.
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Post by ken on Dec 2, 2010 13:08:33 GMT
Just after my last post the doorbell rang and it was my new 1200 watt heater from Amazon. So now my central heating is turned off, I'm sitting in 400 watts of Halogen sunshine feeling just as warm. If I do start feeling a chill, I've still got another 2 lamps to put on.
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Post by Roz on Dec 2, 2010 17:57:37 GMT
Well Readybrek is central heating for kids - apparently, so.. Top heating = woolly hat Side heating = woolly gloves? Bottom heating = woolly underwear? Maybe those are just insulation. |
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Post by movieman36 on Dec 3, 2010 10:41:34 GMT
If it gets really cold I disappear into my editing room. Being a small room with a couple of PCs running, the editing system usually running flat out, it gets quite toasty in there after half an hour or so.
Answer to the black stuff question. Iron oxide. The fact that the system is full of hot water which reacts with the steel in the system (radiator) produced Iron Oxide. If no inhibitor is used, which reduces the production of Iron Oxide, then over time i builds up. In fact I have seen systems where the bottom half of all the rads were full of a thick sludge of the stuff. The more air that enters the system the more black oxide will be produced.
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Post by elvisuk on Dec 3, 2010 12:57:11 GMT
"black oxide" Well that's one mystery solved i alway wonders about MM
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Why do they call central heating, central heating? ;D
