Aimed at both practitioners and the layman, this American book introduces the fundamentals of installing, servicing, troubleshooting and repairing the various types of equipment used in residential and light-commercial heating. Covers: heating fundamentals; insulating and ventilating structures; sizing residential heating and air conditioning systems; heating fuels; warm-air heating systems; hydronic heating systems; steam heating systems; electric heating systems; furnace fundamentals; gas furnaces; oil furnaces; coal furnaces, wood furnaces and multi-fuel furnaces; electric furnaces; steam and hot-water space heating boilers; and boiler and furnace conversion. Appendices provide listings of trade associations and manufacturers; data and conversion tables; and educating, training, certification and licensing information. Volume two is available to borrow separately (ISBN 0764542079).