Identifier: ventilationfordw00king (find matches)
Title: Ventilation for dwellings, rural schools and stables
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram), 1848-1911
Subjects: Ventilation
Publisher: Madison, Wis. : F.H. King
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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opened, and thus keep upthe air circulation, drawing out of the room only the cold-est air it contains. Here, then, is a simple arrangement bywhich many a poorly ventilated home may have its sani-tary conditions very materially improved, at a trifling ex-pense when compared with the advantages gained. If theroom to be ventilated is tightly constructed and if air can-not be borrowed from another unoccupied room by leavingthe door ajar, there is no reason why fresh air intakes maynot be provided on the same plan as has been illustrated fordairy stables in Figs. 31-32. pp. 72 74. and which is rep-resented at AAAA, BB, in Fig. 30. Li providing such in- 92 Ventilation. takes it is only necessary to make openings through the sid-ing, as represented at A, between pairs of studding, cover-ing them with one-eighth inch mesh galvanized wire net-ting, and make corresponding openings just under theceiling at the same pair of studding, covering these withwhite enameled 4 by 12-inch register faces.
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Pig. 39.—Improvised ventilation system for an ordinary dwell!nj, already built. The proper course to take in installing such a ventilationsystem is to modify the heater so that air may be removedfrom the floor level as already described. If it is thenfound that an air change of sufficient rapidity takes place,this being made possible through unintentional openings inthe wall, the desired result has been attained and the in-takes need not be provided. It may be that a sleeping roomis situated as represented in the illustration, throu<^h whichthe stovepipe passes. If so it is a simple matter to attacha radiator to the pipe and thus without extra expense ma- Heating with Warm Air and Ventilation 93 terially warm the room and improve its ventilation if onlya ventilating fine is installed jis indicated at D. In thiscase we have assumed that thrre is a partition and that thespace between a pair of studding may be opened just abovethe baseboard and covered with a white enameled register

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