What do you heat with?

[heather6773]

We have a fuel burning furnace. It is so expensive. I am wondering what type of heat you heat your home with

[Csara]

body heat!

[HeavenLeigh]

I have centeral heat and air. It does pretty good and not that expensive.

[Turtleheadfred]

Ours is a central unit, but the heat is gas. SUPER warm and honestly, we can keep it around 68 and it's MORE than warm enough! Plus, it allows us to have gas logs! Handy if the electricity goes out!

[IUgrad02]

We have a gas furnace and central AC. Not too shabby. Does the trick.

[heather6773]

Originally Posted by Csara

body heat!

Hehehehe I supplement my furnace with that!!!

[meliz]

We have an oil-fuelled hot water system, infloor heating. And I am SO GLAD WE DO NOT PAY OUR HEAT BILL! I was talking to our landlord last week (he pays our power bill) and for a 3.5 week period in Nov into December, he paid $898 to heat our house!!! F*%ck me! (and pardon my French) The poor guy is beside himself. I don't get it. We are heat/electricty conscious, turn lights out when we leave a room, we take short showers, use a cold washer, only run the dishwasher when it's full and use a short cycle, we don sweaters before cranking the heat up... I told him this and I hope he believes me! We really are not frivolous. The only thing I can think of is that this spike happeed about the time when the pool system broke down; it was off for about 2 weeks and the whole thing needed to be reheated (it got very cold) so I imagine that used alot of power just bringing it up to the pool temp. Then when we got home from xmas holidays there was something wrong with furnace (it was broken, poor GLoria was freezing!)-- it was a fouled nozzle that had to be replaced- maybe that problem existed then and was making the whole furnace burn rich? Anyway, I feel for him... I really do. What do poor people do? (well ok, they don't worry about heating pools, but seriously). Oil prices and a cold climate do not mix! Natural gas just arrived here-- if I were him I would strongly consider it.

[heather6773]

Originally Posted by meliz

We have an oil-fuelled hot water system, infloor heating. And I am SO GLAD WE DO NOT PAY OUR HEAT BILL! I was talking to our landlord last week (he pays our power bill) and for a 3.5 week period in Nov into December, he paid $898 to heat our house!!! F*%ck me! (and pardon my French) The poor guy is beside himself. I don't get it. We are heat/electricty conscious, turn lights out when we leave a room, we take short showers, use a cold washer, only run the dishwasher when it's full and use a short cycle, we don sweaters before cranking the heat up... I told him this and I hope he believes me! We really are not frivolous. The only thing I can think of is that this spike happeed about the time when the pool system broke down; it was off for about 2 weeks and the whole thing needed to be reheated (it got very cold) so I imagine that used alot of power just bringing it up to the pool temp. Then when we got home from xmas holidays there was something wrong with furnace (it was broken, poor GLoria was freezing!)-- it was a fouled nozzle that had to be replaced- maybe that problem existed then and was making the whole furnace burn rich? Anyway, I feel for him... I really do. What do poor people do? (well ok, they don't worry about heating pools, but seriously). Oil prices and a cold climate do not mix! Natural gas just arrived here-- if I were him I would strongly consider it.

well poor people in this area head to the local dept. of social services and they pay their whole bill!!!

[Sexy Strawberry]

Central heat.

[shan]

We are using all electric heat and we get a discount on our electric bill for it. It helps a little but it would be better if some one hadn't use blown in insulation in the house. When the wind picks up there is no keeping the house at a comfortable temp.