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how you heat your home

gcreekrch said:
If we were to change our heating we would go to a geo-thermal set-up. A little pricey to put in but no fuel to add once up and running.
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I have an uncle in the Okanogan that uses geothermal. His heating bill runs about 13 bucks a month.
 
per said:
gcreekrch said:
If we were to change our heating we would go to a geo-thermal set-up. A little pricey to put in but no fuel to add once up and running.
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I have an uncle in the Okanogan that uses geothermal. His heating bill runs about 13 bucks a month.
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C Thompson who used to post on here and another fellow I know both have geothermal for heating. CT's was put in by his FIL back in the early 80's and has been problem free. It is a closed system.
The other system uses gravity fed spring water that has to be pumped after it leaves the heat exchanger or the water will freeze. The water then goes back underground and flows into a water tank for cattle.
 
per said:
The average human body gives off the equivalent heat of a 100watt light bulb. This is not however an indication of how bright they are.
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:lol2: :lol2: :lol2:

Yep, it maybe works in reverse - the hotter the dimmer?
 
Richard Doolittle said:
Northern Rancher said:
We had a wood stove but they just kept raising our insurance so we use propane and body heat.
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What's that do to your insurance rates??
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They don't think house trailers and wood stoves are a good mix. They put up your premiums if you have one.

We heat this house with a 60 gallon electric water heater, Dad's house with an electric forced air furnace and the old ranch house is burning wood in the furnace. Wish i could find some lump coal.
 
We had a wood stove in the kitchen to use as suplemental heat and we could not even get insurance on the house no matter what we payed. So went with out fore thirty years. Thought we pushed our luck far enough so we put in a ventless propane space heater on the wall. The nice thing about it is we can leave in the winter time for more a few hours and we have insurance.
 
We have a wood/electric furnace.

We mostly use the electricity though. When we burned wood in it we found that the fan never quit, and so we weren't saving any money. The wood part is a now a backup in case of a power failure. It's nice to know we can keep all the waterworks from freezing if the power goes out.
 
Kato said:
We have a wood/electric furnace.

We mostly use the electricity though. When we burned wood in it we found that the fan never quit, and so we weren't saving any money. The wood part is a now a backup in case of a power failure. It's nice to know we can keep all the waterworks from freezing if the power goes out.
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I would think the fan blowing the heat from the wood, would be cheaper then using electricity to heat the elements.
 

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