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Post by katlady on Jan 14, 2024 18:45:36 GMT
Okay so my next question..... what is a furnace for? I have seen them in movies - that's where all the bad things happen in horror movies! But I've never actually known what the furnace does. Is it to heat the house? Or the water? Or for monsters to throw people into? LMAO! You crack me up. Our modern furnaces don't look anything like the old fashioned ones shown in scary movies. They look like big rectangular boxes with huge pipes (metal ducts) coming out of them. Those little electric wall heaters you guys have in warm climates aren't powerful enough to heat our houses. We are in a warmer climate, but we still have a furnace/heater, not a wall heater. We had a wall heater in an apartment we lived in. We would get up in the morning and stand in front of it to get warm. Maybe they are called something different in Australia. And yes, it is not like the movies where you open a panel and see a big fire inside. It is all electric and gas powered.
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Post by AussieMeg on Jan 14, 2024 23:49:40 GMT
LMAO! You crack me up. Our modern furnaces don't look anything like the old fashioned ones shown in scary movies. They look like big rectangular boxes with huge pipes (metal ducts) coming out of them. Those little electric wall heaters you guys have in warm climates aren't powerful enough to heat our houses. I (a girl raised in arguably the coldest of the prairie provinces--SK and MB may tie!--but it's a dry cold) was never so cold as I was the winter of the year I spent as an exchange student living just outside of Melbourne! I even had my mom mail me my ski jacket!! The problem I had was that the buildings in Victoria weren't insulated like at home, and there wasn't central heating, plus winter was very wet/rainy. I spent every class sitting right up at the front of the room beside the wall heater, and barely moved from the lounge room fire at home. My host family even had to buy me an electric blanket for my bed I had lots of people ask me how a girl from Canada could find Australia so cold ... That's not the first time I've heard that! I can't remember who else has told me that, but yes you're right..... We do have insulation in the ceiling, but I'm sure it's pitifully inadequate compared to that in cold climates. And wall heaters are only good for heating one room. Up until recently, my mum lived in a very old house built in the late 1800s, with really high ceilings. The house did have ducted heating, but she rarely turned it on because it was too expensive to run. So whenever I went to stay with her in winter, the little kitchen/lounge area would be toasty warm with the wall heater on, then when you had to go to the toilet, you'd freeze ya tits off! I have ducted heating, and I set it to 20 during winter, and I turn it completely off at night. I find it well and truly warm enough. We are in a warmer climate, but we still have a furnace/heater, not a wall heater. We had a wall heater in an apartment we lived in. We would get up in the morning and stand in front of it to get warm. Maybe they are called something different in Australia. And yes, it is not like the movies where you open a panel and see a big fire inside. It is all electric and gas powered. I have gas ducted heating, and the unit is attached to the house on the outside, next to the gas hot water unit.
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