[Magdalen] Need chairs for nave!

[Jim Guthrie]

From: Roger Stokes

>There are a couple of points here.  One is that many heating systems have a 
>frost protection setting which will fire up the boiler if there is a danger of 
>the water in the pipes freezing.  The other is

Newer systems in newer buildings. But most of the older parishes have all manner 
of drafts in unknown places hitting the heating pipes, especially in churches 
without basements/undercrofts. In Bay Ridge, there were vestry minutes as early 
as 1946 about repairs to burst pipes in the sacristy. And despite years of 
problems, no one ever did find the source of the cold air on the heating pipes. 
We had them burst yet again as late as 2005, despite efforts to keep the church 
no less than 50 degrees in icy weather.

>temperature during the week.  There are also arguments that maintaining a 
>certain relatively low temperature which is boosted on occasion is

One way of Air Conditioning a church at lower operating cost is to start the 
fans going in the middle of the night on hot days so that despite 95 degrees at 
Noon, the Church is Cooled down to the mid 70s before the compressors kick in.

>that and found it to be true.  Pipe organs are particularly susceptible to 
>temperature variations so a more equable temperature throughout the week is 
>good for them as well as the fabric of the building.

That depends on the organ. One of the reasons the 1844 Ferris Tracker at Round 
Lake Auditorium near Saratoga NY is the fact that it's been in the deep freeze 
or nearly so half the year <g>.

Cheers,
Jim