Hot water for domestic use : a complete guide to the methods of supplying and heating water for domestic purposes, giving each step to be taken and explaining why it is done . y to allow for smoke flueone-eighth of the sectional area of the grate sur-face. That would be equal to 18 square inchesarea in the smoke flue for each square foot of gratesurface. Smoke Flues 67 Having provided a good smoke flue for thewater heater, no other smoke pipes should be per-mitted to connect to it, nor should other openingsto the flue be allowed. Two fires on one smokeflue will spoil the draft so that neither
Hot water for domestic use : a complete guide to the methods of supplying and heating water for domestic purposes, giving each step to be taken and explaining why it is done . y to allow for smoke flueone-eighth of the sectional area of the grate sur-face. That would be equal to 18 square inchesarea in the smoke flue for each square foot of gratesurface. Smoke Flues 67 Having provided a good smoke flue for thewater heater, no other smoke pipes should be per-mitted to connect to it, nor should other openingsto the flue be allowed. Two fires on one smokeflue will spoil the draft so that neither fire will besatisfactory. Garbage Burning Water many institutions like asylums, poor farms, hospitals and sanitari-ums there is an accu-mulation of combust-ible mterials whichmust be disposed of,as well as a greater orless amount of gar-bage, in the shape ofrefuse of vegetablesprepared for meals,which would become anuisance if not caredfor in a sanitary man-ner. In such institu-tions there generallyis plenty of help tolook after fires, andgarbage burning„. ,, water heaters may be Fig. 14. -^ used for heatingwater, using combustible materials like paper and. 68 Hot Water for Domestic Use scraps of wood for fuel, and consuming the gar-bage from the institution at the same time. In caseit is desired to dispose of papers and other com-bustible materials otherwise, coal may be used forfuel in the garbage burning heater, the same as in anordinary water heater. A garbage burning heater isshown in Fig. 14. It differs from an ordinary waterheater principally in having a shelf made of pipecoils, through which water circulates and on whichgarbage may be dumped to dry out and be Water With has come into such general use, within recentyears, for cooking of meals and other householdpurposes, that it is not surprising to find it invadingthe field of coal, in the heating of water for domes-tic use. The value of gas as a fuel lies in the factthat as soon as i
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