Show nation s home owners preparing for winter housing homing fuel experts point out how I heat feat mid and money momy losses can be checked JOHN DOE the bos four secretaries together with the colonels lady and judy ogrady are knitting their brows and looking with considerable sid ide rable erable unease toward that section of the calendar marked winter it is quite probable that both the chloi colonels hicls lady and miss judy are wondering inwardly what red flannel underwear will do to the feminine silhouette while john doe and mr big shot are wearing down pencils and using reams ot of paper to devise new ways of keeping the home fires burning for that hat great leveler war Is beginning to pinch in another and what may prove to be an exceptionally painful spot where mr wg big shots bank account and J ohn 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 not some john does jim smiths and mr dig big shots whose homes have central heating plants s share hare 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 air generated by the central heating system the fireplace or the sto stove v e as the case may be and the hou householder s e holder is none the wiser astronomical figures on oa fuel sayings savings from the american society of heating and ventilating engineers X 3 va 1 junior here is having a good food time for himself playing in the he oil paint which his mother Is using to coat the radiator this wl winter anter the increased efficiency of the radiator because ot of the oil paint coating will keep junior and the rest of the family warmer than th an they otherwise would have been come some astronomical figures regarding fuel savings that can be effected by adoption ot 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 dw which have central heat heating ili 9 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 td the 9 and 12 figure sums of wartime spending the average americans brain may still reel under the impact P act 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 0 oil 11 uses approximately 2000 gallons a season tests have proved that storm sashes save up to 20 per cent of fuel consumption therefore on this basis installation of st storm or sashes alone would result in a I 1 fuel saving of gallons of oil annually using eight cents a gallon as the cost 0 of f oil the saving would amount to 32 a year the same sized house using a central heating system that burned coal coal aou would id need approximately 10 tons a year and on the basis of coal at 13 a ton the savings would amount to t 0 bout about a 26 patriotic aspect of fuel saving there isalio is also a patriotic connotation to these fuel savings we must not forget that every gallon of oil NOT DANGEROUS IF even though the 65 degree temperature pera ture recommended by the OPA as a fuel savings measure might not be too comfortable it is not likely to be detrimental to health according to the opinion of the bureau of health education of the american medical association the bureau further pointed out that reduced temperatures are not dangerous if chilling is avoided and the resistance Is kept high by sensible hygienic living the use of additional clothing especially a sweater and woolen hose may be advisable ton ion of coal and cubic foot of gas saved this year can be diverted to the war production effort to turn 0 out ut more planes more tanks more guns and more of the thousands 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 bass bams 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 lot be needed for fuel transportation this winter and therefore could be used 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 V ventilating entila ting 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 farst 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 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 kills bills using storm windows and doors the fuel consumption ranged from 45 pounds of coal used at an 18 degree differential of indoor outdoor 71 1 14 NA weather stripping like that being byln set litre here saves fuel too at t W ix U 11 IN insulating homes as shown here is another important fuel conservation order it will reduce fuel consumption from 10 to 20 per cent temperature to pounds at a 70 degree differential compared to this the test without storm sash lashings 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 differential in outdoor indoor temperatures the house when equipped with storm saved 60 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 ili 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 actual fuel saving of 19 per cent directly attributable to storm sashes on doors and windows as the house chosen tor bior 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 0 or r average saving in a season according to figures announced by the society came to 20 per cent insulation 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 a show how leadership by the installation of fuel saving devices one of which was insulation B M woods chairman of the war service committee of the american society also proposes 1 I 0 heading the list of the th ten commandments tor for fuel savins saving as men tinned boned in this article is window conditioning or fitting storm sashes this too will save on the winters fuel bill that unused rooms be locked up for the winter without heat the heat turned off on in the garage for the duration of the war and sun rooms usually difficult to heat should be shut off from the rest of the house and left without het beat if possible doors to attles attics and unused rooms should be tightly closed and when Il fireplaces replaces are not in use the dampers should be tightly closed to prevent heat from escaping up the chimney installation of thermostatic control is the only adequate means of ma maintaining uniform temperatures ac according to authorities on heat beat control and therefore is placed fourth on the american Socie tys 10 point fuel saving program tests with clock control of heating plants have revealed that fuel is saved lit at the rate of 32 per cent a degree of lowered temperature therefore if 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 the fuel will be saved |