Ok..living in parts of the country like the LEFT coast or Texas now, i've always heard about heating furnaces and how the whole east coast and north use them to heat their homes.What does one look like,how much area does it heat,and do they run off diesel fuel or Kerosene?Sorry for the ignorance here, and does anyone have a picture of one?...The only heating systems I know of are A:Wall Heaters B:Central Heating C:Radiant electric heaters ..

 

I remember when I was visiting a guy near Pittsburg, PA and he had an oil furnace. Basically it is a big box heat exchanger with an electric blower going past an oil jet and an igniter sparkgap. The blower and spark starts up and then the oil is sprayed in and burns in a big yellow ball of fire.

He was new in the house and neglected to get setup for oil deliveries and when he ran out it was a crunch time of course and nobody would deliver him any oil. We had to go buy diesel fuel to keep from freezing.

AFAIK there isn't much diff between diesel oil and heating oil but maybe heating oil is heavier with a lower cetane rating so it isn't much good for diesels in cold weather.

Edwin

 

DUDE you need to travel more!

furnaces you can get in all different styles and configurations to best suit your needs, the most popular (and cheapest) are forced air furnaces, you can get them in natural gas, propane and fuel oil. also you have your boiler systems, which heat hot water, they heat using radiators(old), baseboard radiation, or in-floor heating. there are also waste oil heaters for shops and garages, wood furnaces and wood boilers, pellet stoves. when it gets cold you need heat!

 

You want an outdoor add on or an indoor add on?