Why were sashes built into heating radiators in the last century?
All the kindest evening!
With age, it is not so often that what I see again interests me as much as before, but these amazing heating radiators puzzled me a lot.
We are talking about batteries, in which 1-2 horizontal shelves are built in and one or two shutters covering them. Radiators look like this:
I saw this restored copy in an old Petersburg apartment on Kronverkskaya embankment.
In the next room, a less beautiful, not yet updated radiator with opening doors is preserved:
Why did they have shelves built into the batteries?
It turned out that the solution is simple - our practical ancestors used shelves for two purposes:
- for warming up food (there were no microwaves, and the radiators were perfectly fried up to 40-50 degrees);
- for drying clothes and shoes.
Remember how as a child you came back from a walk all covered in snow: socks, mittens, and a hat. And such a radiator would be the best place to dry them.
Perhaps some of you even found such batteries or saw them in the apartments of your grandparents.
Have you ever seen such batteries?
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