How do you heat your dwelling?

[aliceinchains]

Electric here has sky rocketed. I am glad i have a coal stove. Just got a load of nugget dumped in my truck at a very close distributor 1,660 pounds at the price of $161.87.

So with the economy being so bad i was wanting to know how much of an impact it is to heat your place.

[bsllvn]

Tough right now to reply to this ... right now I just open the window! :)

[azhonkey]

heat? it was 114 degrees this week.

[ubersoldate]

I open the curtains and let the sun come in, Im in Phoenix.

[Helen Keller]

coal once it goes below freezing.

[TEN-32]

Natural gas forced air and a couple of kerosene wick burners. Also a wood fireplace, but that really doesn't heat much. With K-1 at $3/gal I'm not sure if its saving me any money or not.

[a-kmanator]

I have a monitor Kerosene furnace that I installed back when kero was .99 cents a gal. for as long as i remember till about 3 weeks after I bought the heater then kero sky rocketed...but I still only go thru about 320 gallons a year to heat 1400 square feet ,2 story in N.E.P.A. where temps. can dip in the minus 10's or so in jan./feb...I turn my heat on about mid oct.to about may.In my area wood is the cheapest source of heat now....kman

[gewehr44]

Good old forced air oil furnace (literally old, at least 30 years!). Wow, I'm a little surprised people are still using coal in their homes, but I guess it makes sense if you live close to a coal producing area. I don't know where you'd find coal in my neck of the woods.

My parent's house used to be heated with a coal boiler before they purchased it, but it was probably converted to oil in the 40's or 50's. I recall my mother being annoyed because coal dust was still staining the edge of the rugs decades later!

[abpt1]

Air / oil and wood

lots of people up in North PA use coal its cheaper than oil or wood .

[Moebrown20]

Gas fireplace, electric baseboards.
I need to get a wood or a coal burner before it gets too cold.
I can see my bills now.

[AKTexas]

I live in Texas we just turn off the AC in the winter.

[El Laton Caliente]

First winter in the new place. It has two fire places and central propane heat.

[Schuetzenman]

Natural gas is how my home is heated. I have a 2 story house and it is dual zoned, 2 seperate HVAC systems, one up and one down.

[sisyphus]

Natural gas, standard. There's a fireplace furnace insert with a blower that heats the room it's in like an oven. The rest of the house drops quite a few degrees lower when it's running.

I stocked-up on Euro milsurp wool blankets, wool sox, quilted pant liners, mittens, parkas, hats and lots of other goodies for if we hit a real bad winter. My idea of "bad" is a lot more severe than most people in this AO. Unless we're in sub-zero for long periods I'll be in heaven with the cold.

[slamfire51]

Natural gas. It's starting to get pricey.

[Faulkner]

I have electric/heat pump along with wood convection stove. I cut my own wood from my homestead, usually burn a couple of cords each winter . . . I like a fire to back up to when it's cold outside.

Once the economy collapses and the US becomes a third world country those with alternate heating source will be glad they have it.

[Tracy]

I have an ancient 1 1/2 story brick framed home that I heat with natural gas. Once crap and trade goes into affect, we are going to gather around the trash barrel in the back yard.:freeze:

[Partisan1983]

Propane at my house.


Though my place does have a wood stove....though I wanna sell it. Can't use it since my wife is allergic to wood smoke.

[MRIman]

House has electric base board heaters all around. Used only in "teens" and below.
Have a wood stove as well as a propane heater that doesn't need electric to run.
I try to burn wood,but a long day at work will have the propane come on.

[charger0122]

wood heater that we cut trees down for an split. we have central electric heat but only turn it on when it gets really cold. im in georgia so it dont get so bad but the wood makes the power bill go down. and its a good thing to have if the SHTF. got plenty of trees.

[Gunner1558]

Oil forced air, @ $2.79 a gallon.


Wood burner coupled into the heat pipe that helps with the budget. Cut wood on my own place, so I have 2 heat wood. ( Once when you cut it, once when you burn it. )

[Helen Keller]

Forced air coal/wood furnace tied into a oil furnace.


Glad I'm moving into a smaller house.

[O.S.O.K.]

Thermonuclear IV generation reactor - residential model - three gigawat. :D

Yes, I live in Texas too. We need heat about three weeks out of the year... a little wood stove would do nicely for that but we just swtich the AC to "heat pump" mode.

[whos2kno]

we heat out place with natural gas but we keep it set low. we manly use 2 rooms in the house and we use portable electric headers for those rooms (computer room and bed room) other then that we bundle up when we go through the house.

[Gunreference1]

Natural gas furnace with baseboard heaters. Two zones, upstairs/downstairs and I fired it up Friday morning. We have a freeze watch in effect through Tuesday morning. In the morning I should see snow on the moutain tops. The Grand Valley will be cold the next few days.

Steve