The central heating pipes were leaking at the joints and had to be replaced.
In 1972 - just after the survey began - 37% of households had central heating.
Meanwhile central heating is sometimes wasted on the whole house when you only need heat a room.
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The cottages are equipped with phones, high-definition TV, central heating and double-paned windows to keep out raging storms.
They function both as central heating, in winter, and as a recycling centre.
The work includes fitting toilets, central heating, electricity and creating a 120-seat restaurant.
Plants release moisture into the air alleviating the dry atmosphere generated by air-conditioning and central heating units, as well as computers.
The next stage is to link this exchanger to a district-heating system so that it can be pumped into central heating.
An executive spokeswoman said its central heating programme focused on older people because evidence showed they were the most vulnerable group.
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Blincoe mainly for the sake of being in a house with central heating.
In the home, even the economic climate has not affected our wish to keep on the central heating rather than don another sweater.
Mr McConnell cited the right to free personal and nursing care, free bus travel and proper central heating as a result of Devolution.
To qualify you must be a home owner or a private tenant who is aged 60 or over, and has never had central heating.
"However, both the central heating programme and the warm deal in the social rented sector were targeted at the dwellings not the householder, " she said.
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Video recorders, central heating and air conditioning controls could be affected.
Depending on an applicant's needs, it will pay for things such as loft insulation, draught proofing, gas room heaters with thermostat controls, gas, electric or oil central heating.
In the county as a whole there is an unusually high percentage of pensioners and those with a limiting long-term illness, and 14% of households have no central heating.
Households with oil-fired central heating, and those using solid fuel or liquid petroleum gas to heat their homes, are much more likely to be in fuel poverty than "on-grid" households.
By sucking 55-degree heat out of the ground and concentrating it, the heat pump is able to deliver 110-degree heat into the warm air ducts of a central heating system.
Labour's achievements in power were cited as including nursery places, the new deal, the working families tax credit, and the promise of central heating for all pensioner homes in Scotland.
"It is not unusual to find a castle that offers 40 or more bedrooms, but only two bathrooms, and has central heating in only one inhabitable wing of the castle, " says Sotheby's Kraft.
The fund gives a grant for a package of energy efficiency and heating measures ranging from insulation to, in some cases, a central heating system if you do not have one at the moment.
While most people support the principles of environmental protection, few would want to go back to the 18th century, living without electricity, central heating, air travel and automobiles, all of which rely primarily on hydrocarbons to function.
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But because demand is shrinking so fast and maintaining empty homes is expensive central heating boilers are a favourite target for thieves demolishing the worst estates, and shipping the remaining tenants into better areas, may be the best regeneration option.
Homes have central heating, running water and access to the internet, with Facebook being one of the most popular modes of communication -- a far cry from the spartan existence of Inuit communities in Greenland and northern Russia.
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We are wasting millions, contributing more to global warming than industry, letting pensioners get cold despite free central heating systems they can't afford to switch on, and letting kids get asthma in damp cold bedrooms and overheated classrooms.
Many famous performers play modern violins alongside their old masters, not least because they are often more resistant to the rigours of air travel and central heating, but also because they may be more suitable for certain kinds of music.
We had reported earlier in the year that the chapel had originally opened in 1811, but was now threatened with closure because it needed a bit of tlc in the form of a new fire escape, a new boiler and a central heating system which could ward off the oncoming winter.
If you are living on means tested benefits AND you live in the hardest-to-heat homes you may be eligible for a free new central heating boiler, insulation for a hot water cylinder, loft, cavity wall and solid wall insulation, draught proofing for doors and windows or renewable energy technologies such as solar panels.
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