. Greenhouse construction and heating: containing full descriptions of the various kinds of greenhouses, stove houses, forcing houses, pits and frames, with directions for their construction, and also descriptions of the different types of boilers, pipes, and heating apparatus generally, with instructions for fixing the same. Greenhouses. HEATING BY HOT WATEB. 163 Where several houses are built adjoining (side by side), and have to be heated from one boiler, or rather stoke-hole, the best plan is to run two mains, flow and return, from the boiler across the ends of the houses, and by preferenc
. Greenhouse construction and heating: containing full descriptions of the various kinds of greenhouses, stove houses, forcing houses, pits and frames, with directions for their construction, and also descriptions of the different types of boilers, pipes, and heating apparatus generally, with instructions for fixing the same. Greenhouses. HEATING BY HOT WATEB. 163 Where several houses are built adjoining (side by side), and have to be heated from one boiler, or rather stoke-hole, the best plan is to run two mains, flow and return, from the boiler across the ends of the houses, and by preference inside them, in a shallow brick pit or trench, so that there may be no loss of heat. On these mains T"Pieces. ?£= Fig. 108. are fixed where required, that is opposite the flow and return (heating) pipes, on the two mains respectively, these being connected on and each fitted with a valve. Of course there will be a rise from the mains into the heating pipes, so that the former may run beneath the doorways or paths, etc., and this also ensures a proper circulation M 2. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Ravenscroft, B. C. London, L. U. Gill; New York, C. Scribner's sons
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