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Civil Engineer and Architect’s Jurnal.] [January 1, 1868. J, L. BACON & CO'.S IMPROVED HOT WATER APPARATUS, FOR WARMING AND VENTILATING PRIVATE HOUSES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, MANUFACTORIES, GREENHOUSES, , The advantages of this mode of warming are the following:— 1. The facility with which this Apparatus can be erected in old build ings, without necessitating alterations in the structure, or interfering with the architectural arrangements, the small size of the pipes (occupying hardly any space), adapting it to any locality. In new houses, there be ing no chimney projection, the width of each room is increased by nearly two feet, without extra cost. 2 A healthy and agreeable summer-like temperature, and good ventila tion, without draft, can be maintained equally throughout an entire house; or, if required, the heat can be regulated in each room separately by stop-cocks; sleeping rooms being entirely shut off in this manner during the night, and warmed in the morning by merely turning a handle. 3. Great economy in fuel. 4. Saving of trouble to the servants, only one fire having to be lit, which requires very little attention ; no fuel being consumed in the rooms, the consequent dirt and dust is avoided, and there are no grates to be cleaned. 5. Smoky chimneys, and the very great inconvenience and dirt caused by sweeping them, are entirely obviated. Houses are so various, that it is impossible to state the exact cost of an apparatus, without seeing the building to be wanned ; but the average cost of heating a house of ten rooms (exclusive of kitchen offices) on this plan, having a cubical content of 20,000 feet, would be about £80, or £4 per 1000 cubic feet warmed. This price includes supplying the cast-iron trellis work to cover the pipes, and the arrangement for regulating the warmth in the different rooms; but as no stoves, mantlepieces, or chim ney breasts are required, at least half of this amount would be saved, be sides much space being gained in every apartment. For churches, the cost would vary from 10s. to 25s. per 1000 cubic feet warmed, including the necessary cast-iron trellis work. For factories about £2 per 1000 cubic feet. The cost of the fuel required to warm a house must necessarily depend upon the thickness of the walls, the amount of the glass surface, and the manner in which it is built; but we have found, from a very large ex perience, that the cost of heating a well-built house containing about 20,000 cubic feet, is £5 10s. for the entire -winter, or about a half-penny per day per 1000 cubic feet; all rooms and passages being warmed to an agreeable temperature. An Apparatus, illustrating every point of construction, is on examina tion at our Office in the Farringdon Road (near to the Metropolitan Sta tion). where the public are respectively invited to call and examine it, and a private house entirely heated upon this plan, without open fires, can be shown during the winter, on personal application at the Office, where any further information can be obtained. Exact estimates will be given for any plans sent to our office, or on | application being made for a personal inspection, and we guarantee the 1 successful operation of every Apparatus which we erect. FARRINGDON ROAD. HOLBORN, E.C., LONDON.
