How do house heating systems work?

Question

I’ve had multiple heating systems, but I just realised I’ve no clue how they actually work

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Answer 1

Basically most of them make hot air. Some do it in the same room(electric baseboard heat), others do it elsewhere and blow the hot air through tubes in the floor/ceiling(forced air electric or gas furnace).

Occasionally you’ll still find boiler/radiator combo that heats up water in the basement and sends that through the pipes to radiators in the living space.

You’ll need to be more specific if you want to know about a specific type of house heating because there’s all sorts of things like in floor radiant, passive solar, geothermal, etc.