Pretty_Bed1983 t1_iqyerpb wrote on October 4, 2022 at 12:28 AM

Reply to comment by AutomationBias in Apt. Heating Question by [deleted]

You did?!? Do you know what the type of heater is called? I've never seen this before in a residential unit. I thinkkkk this house might possibly have been used as some type of office or commercial (or maybe combination business & residential) building at one point. The house was built in the 1800s I know and there's like those old EXIT type signs that you'd see in buildings from the 60's/70s.

NoMoLerking t1_iqyo5df wrote on October 4, 2022 at 1:39 AM

It’s a direct-vent space heater. I dated a girl that had an apartment heated the same way. Both bedrooms faced the living room so she and her roommate slept with their doors open in winter and a fan in each doorway blowing out (figuring the air at the floor was colder so it should blow toward the heater…no idea if it helped).

They heated (and humidified!) the kitchen with a giant lobster pot full of water over a burner on low. Good times.

AutomationBias t1_iqzwp1t wrote on October 4, 2022 at 9:54 AM

I called it a “gas room heater”. It was brown and ancient, looked something like this: https://i.imgur.com/0GYADpB.jpg

Pretty_Bed1983 t1_itga4wg wrote on October 23, 2022 at 12:56 PM

Oh, no mine is way newer than that at least hahaha