| Traditional furnaces are a prime example of what | | | | temperatures, though these controls generally do |
| you can expect from typical home heating | | | | not show the current room temperature. |
| systems. Such furnaces draw their air from within | | | | Often baseboard heaters are used as the primary |
| a home and send this air into ducts which in turn | | | | heating source for a home and also as |
| bear the air to an area where the air is heated up | | | | supplemental suppliers of heat in rooms that are |
| before being sent back to heat up the home. The | | | | otherwise quite cool. |
| more modern furnaces however make use of | | | | Radiant ceiling (floor heaters) is also good |
| blowers which help in recirculation of the heated | | | | examples of heating systems and these work in |
| up air back into the home. These furnaces can be | | | | the same way as the sun. These systems will |
| fueled by electricity or by gas and oil as well as | | | | heat up objects in the same manner as the sun |
| by wood and even by coal. | | | | heats up things and such systems also do not |
| Electric heat pumps are another example of | | | | need to use any blowers. |
| heating systems and these work through being | | | | The electric radiant elements have to be installed |
| able to shuffle heat from one part of the home | | | | in the ceilings and/or floors of a home, and in a |
| to another. In addition, these can also work as air | | | | few cases, they can also be installed in walls. |
| conditioners when the weather turns warm and | | | | Space heaters are portable and fueled by |
| you need to cool things down inside the home. | | | | electricity or gas and even by kerosene. Gas |
| Such systems work with the help of heat pumps | | | | based space heaters are quite common in certain |
| that remove warmth from the outdoor | | | | areas, and are found as freestanding heating |
| environment including from air, ground as well as | | | | solutions or they can also be attached to walls. |
| surface water and even from the earth. Then the | | | | Hydronic heating systems are another example of |
| air will be warmed up by this system (if required) | | | | how you can heat up a home. These systems |
| and will then be circulated throughout the home. | | | | can be installed very easily in the ceiling of a |
| These systems also incorporate metal filters and | | | | home and they can also be installed beneath |
| vents that resemble what you see in forced air | | | | concrete in your driveway where they help keep |
| furnaces. | | | | that part of your home free from ice and snow. |
| The radiant baseboard heat system is a third | | | | Such systems include a boiler that is used to |
| example of heating systems. As a matter of | | | | warm up water in the system. |
| fact, baseboard heaters are nothing but long | | | | These are heating solutions that are a variant of |
| metallic units which have some electrical elements | | | | radiant heating as they make use of heated |
| in them. Each such metal unit will have its controls | | | | water flowing through tubes beneath the floor. |
| that can have markings to show low and high | | | | |