On Sun 28 Sep 2008 01:22:57a, told us...

Wayne Boatwright wrote:

How cold do you plan on keeping the kitchen?

I kept it 36 F one year.

That's beyond my comprehension.

It's easy to do with the kitchen off the back of my house. With 2' stone
walls (C ~ 50 Btu/F-ft^2) inside R10 insulation and RC = 500 hours,
the kitchen temp changes slowly.

Starting at 36 F, it would cool to 30+(36-30)e^-(24h/500h) = 35.7 over
an average 30 F January day. Leaving the kitchen door to the rest of
the house open for a few minutes a day makes up for that cooling.

Being able to do it is not beyond my comprehension. Why anyone would
really want to do it is beyond my comprehension. I want every room in my
house to be at a comfortable temperature at all times. I would find it
inconvenient and uncomfortable to have to wait for it to warm up enough for
the kitchen to be useful.

You are not saving siginficant energy, since to be able to use the kitchen
you're robbing other parts of the house of its heat which has to be
compensated for each time you do it.

At that temperature, you don't even need a refrigerator, just a freezer.

Right, but then spring happens. Maybe the freezer needs a thermostat
that turns on a 15 watt bulb in the fridge box when the freezer temp
rises to 10 F. Where can I find one of those?

Well, yes, spring happens. As to where to find what you're looking for, I
have no idea.

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Wayne Boatwright

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