Mechanical Contracting & Plumbing January-December 1908 . torevloom, and cost $300 to install. The averHgp cost (if fuel per yeai is $75. By Elmina T. Wilson, A five-room C(jttagc is heated with ahot-water system installed by the own-er. The cost of material and fittingswas under $200. In four years the ad-ditional cost for repairs has been $)5. The whole house is kept at about70 degrees Fahr., and the cost for softcoal has never exceeded $ for thewhole firing season. The advantage in the hot-water sys-tem is in the fact that the water beginsto circulate through the pipes as soo
Mechanical Contracting & Plumbing January-December 1908 . torevloom, and cost $300 to install. The averHgp cost (if fuel per yeai is $75. By Elmina T. Wilson, A five-room C(jttagc is heated with ahot-water system installed by the own-er. The cost of material and fittingswas under $200. In four years the ad-ditional cost for repairs has been $)5. The whole house is kept at about70 degrees Fahr., and the cost for softcoal has never exceeded $ for thewhole firing season. The advantage in the hot-water sys-tem is in the fact that the water beginsto circulate through the pipes as soonas the fire is built and the radiatorswill retain heat from five to ten hoursafter the fire is out. The first-flf)or rooms of one home areheated by using a large wood stove inthe cellar. This stove is large enoughto take cord wood in full length. It iswalled in with brick, and pipes leadfrom this hot-air chamber to the vari-ous rooms. This method gives splen-did satisfaction. A furnace with six registers was putinto an old two-storey house at a cost it. Tl-. 21.—Vt^l* ? pply ail I tviitgt Jb>|>uwl tor k Unall t«t^. of $125. One of the old chimneys wasused for a fireplace. The grate and thetile front cost $17, and a carpenter putin the wooden frame and mantel shelffoF $10. The cost of the coal per yearis from $43 to $50. Figure 21 shows a plan of the water-supply and sewage-disposal system fora cottage near Chappaqua, Bybuilding a stone dam about 30 feetlong, a brook was made to give a headof (i feet 2 inches for a compound ramlocated a few feet below the dam. Thewater from above the dam flowingthrough the drive pipe forces spring wa-ter through ()50 feel of ^-inch pipe to ai;r)-gallon iron tank in theattic of the cottage, at ;in elevation of87 feet above the ram. The overflowfrom this tank wastes into the drain foithe rain water leaders. Water is pipedfrom the attic tank to the bath tub,lavatory and water-closet tank in the bathroom and the sink and 3
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