On 12/31/2015 4:16 PM, Uncle Monster wrote:
On Thursday, December 31, 2015 at 11:43:58 AM UTC-6, Muggles wrote:
On 12/31/2015 10:59 AM, Dan Espen wrote:
Muggles writes:

On 12/31/2015 7:11 AM, Moe DeLoughan wrote:
On 12/30/2015 6:06 PM, Vlad Lescovitz wrote:
The wife doesn't like the house being set at 55 degrees
so she (and the teen)

How poor are you that you can only afford to keep your house at 55 F?
There's no way in hell I'd subject my family to that unless financially
I had no choice - and I'm a tightass.

I keep our house at 58 F at night, 62 F during the day - but I allow an
override up to 65 F if anyone's at home.

If you're not doing this out of financial desperation, then your family
is entitled to do whatever the hell they need to do to beat you at your
skinflint game.


We keep the house between 68° and 72°, although it will fluctuate if we
get colder spells and go lower than 68°. For a long time the house was
always on the cold side, but this fall I bought 2 portable rolling oil
radiator heaters that are wonderful at keeping the house warm. They
cycle between high/med/low/off power settings and maintain a surrounding
temp based on the thermostat temp that you set it at. When it cycles to
off it's still producing heat because the coils are radiating heat from
the warmed coils.

They work so well that we have to turn the thermostat down. They are
slow to heat up a room, but once they get up to temperature we never get
cold. We've tried all sorts of portable space heaters to supplement the
gas furnaces and baseboard heaters throughout the house which never
really kept us warm, but these 2 oil radiator heaters weren't very
expensive at all and they do the job of all the other portable heaters
couldn't do.

Space heater vs. furnace:

http://www.mnenergysmart.com/when-sp...hen-they-dont/


We had 2 gas wall *furnaces* that heated the part of the living
room/bedrooms near one, and another room/laundry room for another.
We've never had central air in this house. At one point we had a floor
furnace where one of the wall furnaces is now located.

There is a larger room on the back of this house that only has 2
baseboard heaters, and we have a wood burning stove in that room. We've
always been cold in the winter with the furnaces and baseboard heaters.
The wood stove works nicely, but it has to be constantly monitored as
to what the fire is doing (do I need to open the flue more or less/add
wood/turn logs, etc.)

I've tried several types of space heaters for rooms that don't get
heated well otherwise and these radiator oil heaters have been the best
heaters I've ever used, and 2 heated the entire house before we even lit
the pilot light on the main wall furnace.
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Maggie

When I was young kid living in town before we moved to the farm, the house was heated by a floor furnace. My younger siblings wound up with brands burned into their skin from the hot floor furnace grill. Dang! Every fraking thing was dangerous when I was a kid. Š™.˜‰

[8~{} Uncle Furnace Monster


I remember teaching my kids to avoid the floor furnace!

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Maggie