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- One of the most killing appliance ever created on the face of the Teegeeack. In-wall heater.
Very cheap, small, easy to install, with a wall thermostat it gives you enough comfort in the winter. A bit noisy and dust burning. And here comes the deadly part. Besides burning and/or cooking (depending on how close dust particles get in their flight by the red hot resistor) of the "normal" house dust that include your dead skin flakes which literally makes you "eating your own self" mostly cooked, (but that happens with the central furnaces as well), the resistor is made of an alloy of nickel, chrome and iron. Don't know if anybody ever noticed, when replacing the heating element in a furnace, the wire is much thinner then of the new part. That is because in time it vaporized. Where did it magically go? (But that also happens with central heating in a furnace.)
What makes these unique in the arsenal of killing appliances of the general (electric) (these are made especially by ... Cadet of Vancouver, Washington, there's a general wand in every cadet's knapsack) had made for us in the last past century is the holes. If you look carefully you can see a number of holes in the case that goes in the wall. Made mostly for convenience of installing them fast. Depending on where is the beam you nail the case to, to the left, to the right, more forward, more backwards, etc.. you can choose the best positioned holes for nailing. However, no electrician is going to cover the unused holes.
Those, together with the space left around the wires in the big holes for wires, insure a constant "air" flow between the wall in and the room.
Also no electrician is going to seal with joint compound (gypsum) the space between the case and the hole in the wall, which also for fast fitting is cut about half inch bigger than the case and is covered but not sealed with the nice, ceramic covered front grill.
There is also space around the hole for the fan's axle which is not sealed.
Bernouli's law, suction from the fan, leaks, name it, makes the heater suck "air" from the wall and heating it and feeding in to you. If only for volcanic insulation dust (tethans), it's enough to imagine what i'm talking about.
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