A little heat from the sun or a cool, light wind is more pleasant than central heating or air conditioning.
Hot Air. The labor involved in the care of numerous stoves is considerable, and hence the advent of a central heating stove, or furnace, was a great saving in strength and fuel.
The better-off live in apartment houses where the economy of central heating is practised, while the majority of the poor occupy tenements where the extravagance of the individual stove is indulged in.
The long galleries are all equipped with central heating and electric light and some of them have been divided off by wooden partitions or curtains like the dormitories in a large school.
When I asked the hotel people why the central heating was not on, they said that there is no coal.
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Deprivation is a scale summation of these indices : income, home tenure, access to car ownership, employment status,centralheating, social class, household crowding.
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Fire and water come together in the home'scentralheatingsystem, reinforced architecturally by links forged between fireplaces and plumbing.
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Architectural ventilation on such a scale was perhaps less advanced than gravity-basedcentralheating.
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However, three-quarters of respondents own their own homes, over half of which have three or more bedrooms, and 86 per cent report havingcentralheating.
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The numbers consideringcentralheatingand a telephone to be necessities went from under half to over 80 per cent.
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They must be considered in light of multiple issues - their traditional role as well as within the context of modern,centralheating.
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They had access to electricity,centralheating, toilets, and inside running water.
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I use thecentralheatinga lot now, it is wonderful.
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It is most commonly seen in those over the age of 70 years, is generally worse at night and is aggravated by hot baths andcentralheating.
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Heating systems are deteriorating faster than we can replace them and many houses do not have fullcentralheating.
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Just as many of them, if not more, use heating oil for heating their hot water or—withcentralheating—their homes.
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All local authorities are encouraged to provide some form ofcentralheatingfor old people and many of them are doing so.
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In 1971, only one in three homes hadcentralheating.
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Presumably those who do not usecentralheatingsimply cannot afford it.
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It is for individual local authorities to decide on the priority they give to providingcentralheatingfrom their housing capital programmes.
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