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Originally Posted by fatlazyless
You all need to know the title for this thread "Changing furnace filter" contains a basic misunderstanding because it is definitely a boiler shown in the original poster's photographs and not a furnace, and that a boiler is VERY different from a furnace! .....  A boiler will heat up WATER for heat, while a furnace will heat up AIR for heat, making it a "hot water boiler" or a "hot air furnace" ...... you understand! .. |
Merriam Webster's definition of the word furnace: "an enclosed structure in which heat is produced (as for heating a house or for reducing ore)." Hence I obstinately continue to refer to my boiler as a furnace.
I bet 95% of people would say "furnace" in this sentence: It's cold in here; let's turn on the _______.