Show nations nation home owners preparing for winter housing fuel experts point out how heat and money losses can be checked JOHN DOE the boss with four secretaries together with the colonels lady and sudy judy ogrady are knitting their brows and looking with considerable sid erable unease uncase toward that section of the calendar marked winter it Is quite probable that both the colonels lady and miss judy are wondering inwardly what red flannel underwear will do to the feminine silhouette while john doe and mr mra big shot are wearing down pencils and using reams of paper to devise new ways of keeping the home fires burning for that great leveler war is beginning to pinch in another arid and what may prove to be an exceptionally painful spot where mr big shots bank account and john does careful savings toward the winter fuel bill will both be powerless to help the wherewithal to buy fuel may be there but the fuel will riot not some john does jim smiths and mr big shots whose homes have central heating heating plants share much the same worries currently regarding keeping the coal bin or the oil tank full this winter heat thieves sneak out anywhere from 5 to 50 per cent of the warm arm air generated by the central heating system the fireplace or the stove as the case may be and the householder is none the wiser astronomical figures on fuel savings from the american society of heating and ventilating engineers come some astronomical figures regarding fuel savings that can be effected by adoption of but two of the ten conservation measures this body is advocating if says the society window conditioning and weather stripping were installed in the 13 million single family dwellings which luve have central heating systems and which burn coal oil and gas the savings would be something like this tons of coal gallons of oil and cubic feet of gas even though accustomed to the 9 and 12 figure sums of wartime spending the average americans brain may still reel under the impact of figures like these however translated into terms of the individual pocket book they boll boil down to something like this the average small home having a central heating system burning oil uses approximately 2000 2009 gallons a season tests have proved that storm sashes save up to 20 per cent of fuel consumption therefore on this basis installation of storm sashes alone would result in a fuel saving of gallons of oil annually using eight cents a g gallon illon as the cost of oil the saving would amount to 32 a year the same sized house using a central heating system that burned coal would need approximately 10 tons a year and on the basis of coal at 13 a ton the savings would amount to about 26 patriotic aspect of fuel saving there is also a patriotic connotation to these fuel savings we must not forget that every gallon of oil ton of coal and cubic foot of gas sav saved ed this year can be diverted to the war production effort to turn out more planes more anks more guns and more odthe thousands shousan ds of items needed to bring an early victory cars needed to carry fuel can be released to carry essential war materials te rials on the bakis of the fuel saving already cited the maximum reduction in fuel consumption effected by devices to keep cold air out and warm air in would mean that coal cars and tank cars would not be needed for fuel transportation this winter and therefore could be use used d in in furthering the war effort now facing a war that washington experts declare may last three and even five years longer americans who do their part to save fuel are effecting a double economy whereby both the war effort and their own pocket books benefit an examination of the ten points of the fuel conservation campaign being sponsored by the american society of heating and ventilating r v 40 A a 11 4 e k 0 V I 1 S Z junior here Is having a good food time for himself playing in the oil paint which his mother Is using to coat the radiator this winter the increased efficiency of the radiator because of the oil paint coating will keep junior and the rest of the family warmer than they otherwise would have been engineers reveals that the measures are all of a practical nature and of interest to small householders as well as to those in the larger income brackets citing window conditioning as the first and most important of its ten fuel saving points the society discloses interesting results obtained in tests with a three story frame house in urbana one test tes of the house was made in a series of 24 hour periods with storm sash and without to determine the difference in fuel consumption the type of heating plant used was anthracite coal with forced air drafts during the test the differential in outdoor temperature and indoor temperature ranged from 12 degrees to 72 degrees storm sashes cut fuel bills using storm windows and doors the fuel consumption ranged from 45 pounds of coal used at an 18 degree differential of indoor outdoor mm m k N y AI t weather St stripping rippin like that being beine set here cere saves fuel too I 1 vz 4 w V az 4 S I 1 Insulat insulating ling homes as shown here is another important fuel conservation order it will reduce fuel consumption from 10 to 20 pir per cent temperature to pounds at a 70 degree differential compared to this the test without storm lashings sash ings revealed that fuel consumption was 41 pounds an hour at a low degree temperature differential and increased to pounds of fuel used in a 70 degree differential in other words at a 70 degree deffree differential in outdoor indoor temperatures the house when equipped with storm saved GO CC pounds of coal every hour over the house when not equipped with storm the test also revealed that it was unnecessary to turn on the furnace in the storm sash equipped house until it was at least 6 degrees colder outside than when it was turned on for the unequipped house this represents an amal actual fuel saving of 19 per cant cent directly attributable to storm sashes on doors and windows as the house chosen for the test was not insulated the saving in more severe weather was increased to 21 per cent and was slightly less in mild weather the mean or average saving in a season according to figures announced by the society came to 20 per cent in insulation su lation helps too another fuel saving measure strongly advocated by the american society is insulation tests have disclosed that ceiling insulation will save from 10 to 15 per cent of the normal fuel consumption while wall insulation will save from 12 to 20 per cent As long ago as march 1942 the federal housing administration pointed out the fact that fuel conservation might well become necessary as a part of the war effort and urged home owners to show leadership by the installation of fuel saving devices one of which was insulation II 11 31 woods chairman of the war service committee of the american society also proposes 01 w I 1 M heading the lie list of the ten commandments for fuel saving is as mentioned in this article is window conditioning or fitting storm sashes this too will mill save on the winters fuel bill that unused be locked up for the winter without heat the heat turned off in the glage gago g ago for the duration of the war and sun rooms usually difficult to heat should be shut on off from the rest of the house and left without heat beat if possible doors to attics and unused rooms should be tightly closed and when fireplaces are not in use the dampers should be tight ly closed to prevent heat beat from les escaping caping up the chimney installation of thermostatic control tip is the only adequate means of dainta maintaining ning uniform temperatures according to authorities on an heat COR con arol and therefore is placed fourth on the american Socie tys 10 point fuel saving program rests fasts with clock control of heating plants have revealed that fuel is saved at the rate of 32 per cent a degree of oc lowered temperature therefore I 1 if f the temperature control point is lowered 10 degrees during the night or when temperature at the highest point is not needed 32 per cent of tho the fuel will be saved |