Heating your home ?

[annarere1960]

Now that winter is coming which do you use In your home:


in mine i use........ Natural gas

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[phil6580]

Natural gas for me to anna.

[blknight3]

oil here....They are just putting in the natural gas lines
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[sawtooth]

My home is all electric.

[nightowl]

our main heating source is wood with an oil furnce for backup.....plus two bedrooms have electric baseboard heaters for the real cold nights.

at least with wood you don't need to worry to much when the power goes out for awhile
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[daripper]

I have central heat and air that runs off electricity and a couple of
kerosene oil heaters for back up in case the electricity goes off and
a natural gas cooking stove that can be used to help heat if need be.
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[ComputerDog]

I run around in circles chasing my tail to keep warm.....

Oh, the house....... Natural Gas, uh from the public gas company that is.

- CD

[tkboxer]

We heat with natural gas, this year we added a freestanding stove that burns natural gas, it has a remote control with a thermistat built in. Even though it is only rated at 30,000 btu it will heat the main living area of the house we think. (the house is 1,750 sft., not real big) We are going to try to use our main heating system as little as possible this year and see how it goes, we did buy a small electric convection heater to augment in the rear of the house Our house is made out Rastra block, its a styrafoam block that is 10" thick and rated at R-46 so its very energy efficient plus the temps aren't as extreme here in Flagstaff as it is further north. We generally hit the mid 40's to low 50's on a sunny winter day. The stove is made by Scan and I think its made in Sweden. Here is a picture of the stove and all the new paint Colleen did along with new valance over the patio door.


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[annarere1960]

beautiful room TK.......Oh the stove looks great to...............your wife did a wonderful job decorating and painting the room..............
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[DeadeyeRich]

Only two choices up here in the mountains above San Diego, wood or propane. My home wasn't fitted for propane when it was built. In fact it didn't even have a wood stove. It did have baseboard heaters which I have never turned on. they're too close to the furniture and drapes. So it's wood for me and the wife. I had the original freestanding fireplace removed and installed a wood stove. The house is only 1400 sq. ft. The stove easly heats it up and I installed speed controled fans in the walls at the peak of the raised ceilings to move the heat to the other rooms. Winter temps drop into the 20's at night and raise anywhere from 40 to 75 in the day. We can get some pretty wild temperature swings up here.
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[1Bullet]

you all should come to the Hawaiian Islands. Then you don't need to heat your homes. I only want to cool my house.

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