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01-15-2024 10:15 AM
Did you have one of these? My childhood home had one in the den where we watched TV. Wall panels heated the house, but that was our cozy room for days like this. All of our heat was powered by butane (propane is today's term) stored in a tank beside our home. Farm life.
01-15-2024 10:18 AM
Yes, we had gas heat and a very similar looking furnace in the 60's that used to have that big silver venting pipe attached to it. Geez, I had forgotten all about that........it took up a lot of space in our kitchen!
01-15-2024 10:52 AM
We had these kinds of natural gas wall panels in some of the places where we lived. Usually the only place warm was in the room where that panel was located. Everywhere else was cold. Hated it.
BTW, butane is not the same thing as propane.
01-15-2024 10:59 AM
I have old fashioned radiators and steam pipes, the trouble is my main room is 22 ft by 12ft with three window and a small radiator at the end of the room. We use a space heater to warm the area where we sit
01-15-2024 11:05 AM
@SilleeMee Those are the wall panels we had to heat the home. They left cold spots. The little guy in the picture was small. Maybe 2 feet wide and 3 feet tall. It was not vented outside, but had a direct line from the tank to the heater. I do not believe that would be up to today's codes, but it was warm.
01-15-2024 11:06 AM - edited 01-15-2024 11:58 AM
What a comforting memory this morning!❤ My dear grandmother had one similar in her den as well, and because there was no door in the doorway, she had a sheet that she would let down to hold the heat in on frosty winter mornings.😊
I was stubborn, and what she called "hard-headed" as a child and would sometimes push boundaries, but after a "singe" or two, I knew not to get too close! I can still hear her fussing at me.😂
I am smiling as I reminisce, and THANK YOU for sharing this distant, soul hugging memory from my childhood!🥰
~~~All we need is LOVE💖
01-15-2024 11:36 AM
I lived in an old house that was built in the late 1800's. It still had an old coal shoot out back and also the original coal stove in the basement. Upstairs on the main floor there was this grate on the floor in the middle of the living room, off to one side. The rest of the house had radiators but those were an upgrade along with a natural gas boiler to heat them.
I can't imagine that this would be the only heat source but it was in that old house.
01-15-2024 11:45 AM
We had similar heaters in our shotgun house when I was growing up in the 1950s-60s in New Orleans. But no propane - natural gas powered the space heaters, hot water heater and stove. It was piped into the house from municipal source, just like water.
I cringe when I think about how dangerous those things were in a house with children by today's standards. But none of us were ever hurt. And I loved to come inside on a cold day and stand right in front of that heater to warm up.
01-15-2024 12:11 PM
01-15-2024 12:27 PM
@SilleeMee wrote:We had these kinds of natural gas wall panels in some of the places where we lived. Usually the only place warm was in the room where that panel was located. Everywhere else was cold. Hated it.
BTW, butane is not the same thing as propane.
@SilleeMee I had one of those in an old apartment in L.A. in the 1970s. One day I stood too close to it...and my WIG got singed!! di
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