While our ancestors were using fire as far back as 1,900,000 BC, the oldest evidence of using fire in a controlled manner for heating is only around 100,000 years ago. The remains of primitive, open-top buildings which would have once allowed smoke to escape, signal this era as the beginning of home heating systems as we know them.
Fast forward approximately 50,000 years and the process had grown much more refined. Ukraine Neanderthals even constructed hearths from mammoth bones to create heat. Open hearths were the main means of heating for thousands of years, with the next recorded jump in technology not being until 3000 BC, with the invention of braziers, used to heat homes in a much more contained space.
In the 5000 years that bring us up to the modern day, home heating systems have rapidly evolved; from the underfloor and central heating systems of Ancient Rome, to the invention of the circulating fireplace in the 1600s, to the first electric heater in the 1800s – we were determined to refine heating to it’s most efficient, effective form.
Today, underfloor heating systems combine the ingenuity of Roman invention, with the superior technology of our modern age. The result is stable, comfortable temperatures year-round, costing only pennies to run.
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