fordguy writes:


Do you live in the city or the country? I built a 30 X 50 shop 2 years
ago.
I put in radiant floor heat,

I lived in the city when I had the fire, back in the country now. We built a 25
x 48 shop here about 6 years ago. If I ever get the thermostat hooked up
(tomorrow? But I've been saying that for 3 years), I'll have an overhead
electric furnace on-line and working. Right now, I'm using infrared propane,
45,000 Btus. Radiant floor heat would have been nice, but I built that shop
myself for less than 11 grand, so it wasn't in the picture. My current heating
set-up cost me the price of a 60 amp breaker and some #6 cable, cheap
thermostat, and a bit of metal work. I don't really know what the KW cost is
here, but I promise, it's not 2.7 cents. More like 9, at a guess, plus fuel
adjustments that will knock your panties into a knot.

I've got propane heat in the house and very much regret changing from oil. The
first year the heat pump/propane was in place, my combined electrical and
propane bill was more than double the preceding (cooler) year's costs. You save
on furnace cleanings. You get screwed on the cost of the fuel which has been on
an apparent near perpetual up-tick, at least around central VA, for several
years now. I expect my heating bill this year to be about three and one half
times what it was four years ago.

Charlie Self
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." Sir Winston
Churchill