Winter Home Heating

[Nimrod]

Whats everybody doing for heat this winter?

The cost of home heating oil is disgusting.

I have a wood burning stove, and its awesome. Heats the first floor, and the second floor it helps as well, my oil burner is not running that much.

Late fall, my wife looked out in the backyard "How much wood is out there?"
Told her, "Guessing 8 cords of wood"
She flips out, "its to much, whats your problem, its to much woods, etc."

So I borrowed a line from the Soup Nazi "Deirdre; no heat for you"

 

[mazersteven]

It hasn't dropped under 69* yet in the house. But when it does I will put the heat on.
I do have a wood burning fireplace, but don't have any wood. Like I said if it gets cold enough, I will go to the store and purchase a bundle of wood, or one of these.

 

[Rock&Roll Ninja]

My apartment is located over the blast furnace for the downstairs business. My ambient heat hovers around 65 degrees with the thermostat shut off. I spend a lot more on summer A/C.

 

[Davemcc]

High efficiency natural gas for me. I replaced all the windows in the house a few years back as well, so winter doesn't really get that expensive. That is, if I don't want to amortize the cost of replacing the furnace/ac/windows as part of my energy bill.

 

[STRONGBADF1]

We have oil heat and while Pennsylvania isn't Wisconsin it is in the 30's today and will go down to zero 1 or 2 times a year.

We replaced most of the windows so far have programmable thermostats that I don't let above 66. (Put a sweat shirt on!) We have a wood burning fireplace that I only burn for affect 4-5 times a year. (bow-chica-wow-wow and Christmas, did I just sin???) We looked into an insert to make it (alot) more efficient but $3,000-$4000 for supplemental heat is tough to swallow.

Oh, we pre-pay for oil in the summer. $2.39 a gallon makes it well worth it.

SBF1

 

[stratman]

I feel bad for you guys. We get six months of media "hurricane blitzes", but 99% of the time they're just that: rating blitzes, that don't amount to much during our season, I guess now it's your turn, but I tell ya I wouldn't trade Cane season for Old Man Winter, he's a guaranteed show up. Sorry fellas and good luck, hopefully the powers that be won't gouge on oil as much. Hey! You can all come down, stay at Mazer's and the Major's, I'm sure they wont mind.

P.S. I'd ask you over, but we're going t to Canada!! Go figure!

 

[adk highlander]

Oh, we pre-pay for oil in the summer. $2.39 a gallon makes it well worth it.

Smart man. I was not so smart. We just forgot to do it over the summer and our last fill was $3.34/gl up from $2.49/gl in September. A $618 dollar oil bill was tough to swallow just before Christmas.

We have in floor heat and a Gas Stove in our great room so it is fairly efficient but it gets really cold here. A town 10 miles away called Saranac Lake is often the coldest place in the country during Feb.

 

[Warpdrv]

My hot tub is 103 degrees outside in the Frozen Tundra here in wisconsin...

I just stay in that all day and night... there are icicles hanging inside my house... hehehheh

Natural Gas here for my 3200 sq ft house, and bills are $300 with electricity in the winter...

 

[The Dukester]

I use a Trane heat pump. It works well and during the coldest month (usually January here) my total electric bill is around $140. I heat about 2000 sq ft. The most I have ever paid is 200 if memory serves me correctly.

 

[Nimrod]

Word is out.

Several of my buddies are coming over to look, and ask questions about my wood burner in the next week. Same deal, my friend Artie "The $700 home heating oil bill was the wake up call".

 

[highfihoney]

My furnace runs on natural gas but it only come's on once or twice a day,we use vent free propane space heaters on their lowest settings to suppliment the cost of natural gas.

I have a 500 gallon propane pig behind my garage to fuel the heaters,the construction company i work for uses a ton of propane in the winter so i get my pig filled for free on the company account,no im not stealing ,its one of the perks i get from the company.

Master bedroom heater.

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Basement heater.

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[Hi Ho]

We use a wood stove for the most part. We get the wood free from various sources so heating costs are minimal. The baseboard heat kicks in at 65 degrees in so it doesn't get too cold if the fire isn't going.

 

[Gasman]

Cold, pfft, what is that?
If it gets to 50f in the house, it is very rare, and only requires a pair of pants (instead of the usual shorts).
Usual heating of my house is only for a total of maybe 14 days of the year....

Haven't lived here all my life, but for well over 20 years, and have seen many Christmas days in the 70s to 80s+.

I can't agree with Stratman, I'm tired of constant 98f+ with 120% humidity.
Granted, I would not move back to New York, but somewhere that I can at least see a White Christmas.

Note; being on the opposite side of this rant, we have to run the AC all year long (including today) to keep it at a comfortable 75f and minimize the humidity.
Granted this is real mundane, compared to to -10.

 

[stratman]

That's what it takes to be a real South Floridian! 98 degree Christmas! And loving it! AC baby, AC!

 

[Matt34]

That's one thing about the high desert, it can get cold at night. Since the price of propane jumped up over a dollar compared to last year I bought two Holmes water-filled space heaters. Really happy with them so far and they aren't destroying my electric bill.

Right now it's 42 outside and 70 inside our 2200sq/ft house.

 

[Nimrod]

God does not like Florida

 

[MUDSHARK]

How much does it cost to heat the house for the winter? Down here cooling the house in summer (May-September) is probably 750-800 extra. During the winter the electric cost is about 100 per month. Perhaps the higher insurance needs to be factored in the trade-off. No free lunch wherever one lives when one considers the composite. Stay warm people.

You could always run your tube amps to warm the house.

 

[Nimrod]

How much does it cost to heat the house for the winter? Down here cooling the house in summer (May-September) is probably 750-800 extra. During the winter the electric cost is about 100 per month. Perhaps the higher insurance needs to be factored in the trade-off. No free lunch wherever one lives when one considers the composite. Stay warm people.

You could always run your tube amps to warm the house.

Welcome to New York $$$$$

Round (Average) numbers

Home Heating oil $1,500-$2000 depending on how cold it gets, what the thermometer is set at, how big the house is, how much people are home, etc. With my wood burner, our oil bill shoud be less then half of that.

Electric.... I believe our electric rates (Long Island) are among the highest in the nation. My power bill "Averages" $200-$250 a month.

My tube amps are in the garage and they do actually warm up the garage