You need a smaller space to heat and more insualtion.
Randy
On 24/01/2013 1:42 PM, dsereta...@yahoo.com wrote:
$78 is amazing! My place in Maine was built in 1899, it's only partially
insulated, has three levels and its 3800 sq. ft. Costs me $800 per month in oil
during the winter months and I keep it at 54 or lower!
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On Jan 24, 2013, at 11:59 AM, Randy Bennell <rbenn...@bennell.ca> wrote:
Yes, unfortunately heating oil has become expensive.
I don't think I would enjoy 56 F inside.
You might want to consider other means of keeping warm.
For example, close off all but the rooms you need and insulate them really well
and heat just the area you need.
My sister and her first husband lived in a 2500 Sq foot house built in 1912.
They quickly discovered that they did not want to afford to heat it properly.
They had a room on the 2nd floor that had been a bedroom but had been converted
to a small family room with a wood fireplace by the previous owners.
They essentially lived in there most of the winter using the wood fireplace to
increase the heat in that room.
They had a waterbed with its own heat source of course so they could stand the
bedroom being fairly cool.
Activity in the kitchen meant they could usually manage their too.
I don't recall what they did with the bath but I assume they maybe had a small
electric heater they could use to warm the room before having a bath. Small
room so not too difficult to warm up somewhat.
My house is relatively new having been built in 1981. It has 2X6 studs in the
walls so room for reasonably good levels of insulation and about 2 foot thick
insulation in the attic. We have replaced most of the windows with better units
and it is fairly easy to heat.
It is 1800 sq feet on 2 floors - not including the basement.
I think our heating cost is running about $78 per month on natural gas - and
the furnace is original and not one of the new higher efficiency models.
Randy
On 24/01/2013 10:42 AM, dsereta...@yahoo.com wrote:
That's 56.4 degrees. Warmer than I keep my house! Oil is expensive.
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On Jan 24, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Randy Bennell <rbenn...@bennell.ca> wrote:
On 23/01/2013 10:41 PM, Andrew Strasfogel wrote:
13.6 Canadian degrees inside, 13.6 US degrees outside.
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Randy Bennell <rbenn...@bennell.ca> wrote:
Inside your house?
Randy
Are you sure about that?
We have our thermostat set to keep the inside of the house at 21.5.
IF you are at 13.6, it must be a bit chilly in there.
On a similar point, I noted this morning, because I have been watching the
temps in Hawaii since our visit there and in Ottawa where my elder son resides,
that:
The forecast for Honolulu was 27 and 19 while the forecast for Ottawa was -27
and -19.
I think I prefer the Honolulu version.
Randy in Winnipeg where we may actually warm up a bit this weekend
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