EVEN A TOWEL RAIL

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31657, 18 April 1968, Page 21

EVEN A TOWEL RAIL

Central heating in a private home is no longer a luxury. With coal as your domestic fuel, it is possible to install an economical central heating system with very low running costs. A coal fire can warm hot-water radiators in rooms throughout the house and even the towel rail in the bathroom. All that is required is a boiler installed behind the coal fire. Hot water is pumped from the boiler through pipes to radiators or skirting heaters. A central heating system of this kind may be installed when building a new home or it may just as easily be placed in existing houses.

This type of heating system, warmed by a coal fire, is known as small-bore central heating because of the small diameter of the pipes, which allows for minimum construction work during installation. Water is sent through these narrow

pipes by a pump that develops quite a useful head of pressure. The pump is small, virtually noiseless and uses less electricity than a medium-size light bulb. It uses circulating water as a lubricant and it usually requires no maintenance whatsoever.

As the pipes leading from the pump are only half-an-inch they can be led inconspicuously along the edges of woodwork and, as halfinch holes are easily drilled through walls, little structural weakening occurs if this central heating system is introduced into an existing house. The other surprising advantage of this central heating system is that it usually performs the double duty of heating a home and providing a regular hot water supply as well.

finally, installation costs of small-bore cen-tral-heating may be practically the same for new and old houses.