Home heating system

Choosing the right type of home heating systems is important procedure to ensure your family keeps comfortable and warm throughout the winter season. We know well, heating and cooling activities consume high energy every year. The wrong choosing will bring bad effect to your finance or result unbelievable high energy bill use monthly! And this condition is one of the big reasons why many homeowners prioritize to choose heating system that capable work more efficiently and effectively. Today, we can find several popular fuels that are used by home heating systems such as natural gas, propane, electricity, oil, kerosene, wood, etc.

There are currently available many types of home heating system and the big question is “Which one is the best for you?” Surely, the answer is dependent on your preference and your requirement. The actual family’s member in your home is also important point that should be considered well. Example, don’t choose heater that can produce too many unfriendly particles when working such as forced air heater if we have somebody who has really bad allergies. Radiant heating models which don’t need air circulation mechanism are so recommended for this situation. Then if you prioritize about the efficiency performance, you can choose portable heater models to complement you existed central heating system. Portable units are superior with their spot heating feature. They can heat the air or object (directly or not), it usually depends on the technology mechanism design.

Below are some popular types of residential home heating systems:

1. Space heaters, they are popular to warm up small and medium rooms. Some popular types of them that currently available at this time are heating coil (using electrical mechanism), oil based (similar like radiator), modern halogen based (applying the light bulb technology) and ceramic space heaters. The standard sizes of them are start from 120 Volt power up to more than 1500 Watt. In addition, as possible choose units that come with UL listed to get the safety guarantee and not too difficultly installation.
2. Heat pumps, we can find them are available in three major types that are (1) WSHP or Water source heat pumps, (2) ASHP or Air source heat pumps that usually cheaper than others and (3) GSHP or Ground source heat pumps which usually also called as geothermal heating system. Generally, heat pumps are similar to refrigerator, but refrigerator usually will not compress the refrigerant gas to increase the temperature! ASHP models will result loud noise when working, therefore if you have a plan to purchase these units, better you consider the decibels value (choose 76 db or even lower to get more noiseless performance).
3. Radiant heat, as like written in the previous paragraph, they use radiant principle (infrared radiation) to produce the amount heat and transfer it all around the room. They can heat the object directly. One popular type of radiant heating concept is radiant floor heating system. It is consisted three popular types; (1) hydronic models (superior to heat medium and large rooms efficiently, environmentally and cheaply) or usually also called as liquid based heater, (2) electric radiant floors (they are relatively high cost particularly when we get the improperly installation will result high energy bill) and (3) air heated radiant floors (these models are also can be modified to be used with solar heater models).
4. Furnaces, most often furnaces usually use (blower and heat exchanger) and powered two dominated fuel types (electricity and gas). But usually furnaces are more popular used for industrial than for home hating system use. The speed of fans usually is one of the dominated factors that influence the speed performance when the unit working. As additional tip, as possible to choose unit that come with the variable speed fan feature.

Choosing the right size is also the important procedure to ensure your unit capable to work powerfully, optimally and efficiently. If you choose to buy a portable heater, this procedure is not too difficult. But other hand, if you have a plan to use non-portable unit like radiant floor heating system or other models which basically require the complicated installation then by hiring a qualified professional heating contractor is so recommended to ensure you will get the perfectly installation. Because we all are aware that the properly or improperly installation will contribute significantly to the performance of the unit when running.