The metal grates were filled & we had a complete kitchen floor.
I have dealt with a lot of different gas furnaces in our short life. I remember when our family & I moved into our first house. My parents were dirt bad & could not afford regular heating equipment for awhile. All of us got by with space gas furnaces for a long time. I remember eating cereal with the space furnace sitting on the table. I had a space furnace in our kitchen & there was a furnace pointed at the bathroom piping. After our parents got a little cash they substituted to a boiler system. The boiler was gotten on a deal & the current home was set up for it anyway. There were numerous holes in the kitchen floor with a metal grate over the top. The boiler system was in the basement & then the heat rose up through the grates. I used to rest on the main heating vent right before the school bus came. It was not so sizzling that you could not touch it, as worried as that sounds. Once I was in private school the boiler system was booted out. The metal grates were filled & we had a complete kitchen floor. My parents then were able to Spring for a gas fireplace. The fireplace is still in their condo & is the best furnace they have owned. It doesn’t constantly turn on & makes horrible noises when heating… But, it is a vast improvement over what they had. Maybe by the time I have kids our parents will have a fantastic laboring gas furnace, and perhaps they will have 1 that unquestionably provides fantastic heating.