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The Country House 



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account of its non-ventilating qualities, and also because it has no place in 

 the room, nor is it up to the present time a thing of beauty. 



Ordinarily the best place in a room for the direct radiator is under the 



window, or, at least, against the outer 

 wall. If placed against a blank wall, 

 the space above it becomes useless, as a 

 picture or mirror hung above it is soon 

 seriously injured. 



It requires nearly twice the radiating 

 surface to heat with the indirect radiating 

 system that it does to heat with the direct. 

 At the same time one-half the ventilation 

 problem is accomplished by it, as it, like 

 the furnace, supplies fresh air. Thus it 

 will at once be seen that it is the sysrmi 

 for the living rooms of the country house. 

 In the case of a frame house it can be 

 applied to the first floor by delivery 

 through a register in the front of a fixed 

 seat, which should be in the outer \\;ill 

 (see Fig. 32). In a brick wall the deli\< TV 

 flue can be let into the wall. In supplying 

 heat to the second story of a frame struc- 

 ture the duct should not be carried in the 

 outer walls, owing to their coldness. 



In order that the inflowing air may 



be tempered to the conditions of the weather, it is best to 

 allow for the introduction of cold air which shall mix with 

 the hot prior to its delivery into the room (see Fig. 32). As 

 shown in this cut, the fresh-air flue extends upward to 

 the seat and is intercepted by a damper, which, when 

 lowered, diverts the supply through the heated coil into the 

 upper part of the flue and thence into the room. Thus 

 it will readily be seen that the temperature of the supply is 

 well under control. 



The^irect-indirect radiating system, unless the radiator 

 be let into the wall, is open to the same objections of 

 disfigurement as the direct system. Often it can be used 

 in a room that it is desirable to ventilate, which is sur- 

 rounded by rooms in which special ventilation is not 

 desirable. Its application is best perhaps in a brick \\-A\\ 

 (see Fig. 33). The air is taken in from below and passes 

 section through the coil into the room. By opening the damper 

 system into the cold-air flue, the supply of hot air is correspondingly 

 ra b *.'" k closed, thus tempering the heat. The opening into the 

 room can be either a full-sized register or, better, limited 



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Fig. 32. Section showing Indirect 

 system applied to the first floor of i 

 frame house. The heat is brought into 

 the room under a fixed seat 



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