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Posted: 10/26/2021 11:54:22 PM EST

I just moved. Had central air and a natural gas furnace. Two electric baseboards in an addition room that only had two small furnace vents.

Moved to God’s country and replaced a 28 year old Country wood stove with an efficient Ashley Hearth AW3200. It’s kept the house around 73 down to a low of 19 so far. Have a Kuma Tamarack at the opposite end of the house from the Ashley but haven’t fired it up yet. Probably will only need it during the day in winter when I’m working in that room, otherwise the door can stay closed.

The home also has electric wall heaters and a couple small baseboards but these are turned off, except in my daughter’s room. There is an electric furnace set to fan only with a few ducts run but its installation wasn’t completed (several more duct runs to do).

I have enough wood on hand to get through this winter. Trees girdled and left standing to make firewood for next winter. In an effort to get ahead of the wood game, I’ll be heading to town with my truck & trailer after storms to help people remove damaged trees (this should net me some nice hardwoods).

My electric bills will be $150-$200 this winter with no gas bill. Bills at my old house were about $250 electric and $200 gas in the winter months.

We’re loving wood heat so far. Bonus points for little $$ outlay to heat up a 3600’ space, part of it with 25’ vaulted ceilings.

Posted: 10/26/2021 11:56:02 PM EST

[#1]

hard boiled eggs and protein bars....fuckin inflation

Posted: 10/26/2021 11:56:35 PM EST

[#2]

A big wood fireplace, that’s it. Gets cold in here sometimes.

Posted: 10/26/2021 11:56:38 PM EST

[#3]

Propane furnace, mini split heat pump backup, resistance backup, non vented propane backup, generator backup to run furnace. Kero if it all goes to shit.

Posted: 10/26/2021 11:56:57 PM EST

[#4]

Livestock and “pets”

Posted: 10/26/2021 11:57:03 PM EST

[#5]

Electric ceiling heat upstairs, baseboards downstairs. Our electric bill peaks at about $200 in the winter.

Posted: 10/26/2021 11:58:53 PM EST

[#6]

yer POLE lacks "Propane"

Posted: 10/26/2021 11:59:25 PM EST

[#7]

Propane boiler

Posted: 10/27/2021 12:02:23 AM EST

[#8]

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yer POLE lacks "Propane"

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Do you have a propane furnace? If so, that’s a gas furnace.

I plumbed a gas line from the gas cook top back to the laundry room to install a gas dryer. I installed a tee at the furnace for an eventual propane furnace switchout to use as backup. Im running a cooktop and gas dryer on 20LB grill tanks

Posted: 10/27/2021 12:02:46 AM EST

[#9]

Heat pump, doesn’t get cold enough here to need anything else.

Posted: 10/27/2021 12:04:04 AM EST

[#10]

I put on a hoodie

Posted: 10/27/2021 12:07:02 AM EST

[#11]

Your survey missed oil. We use oil and hot water radiators.

Posted: 10/27/2021 12:07:33 AM EST

[#12]

Oil fired boiler and woodstove.

Posted: 10/27/2021 12:10:39 AM EST

[#13]

BIG COAL.

Posted: 10/27/2021 12:14:10 AM EST

[#14]

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Your survey missed oil. We use oil and hot water radiators.

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It certainly did. Heating oil is a foreign concept to me, being from the midwest and now living in the west. Silly nor’easters.

Posted: 10/27/2021 12:22:05 AM EST

[#15]

Unvented natural gas fireplace logs

30,000 BTUs, controlled by a mechanical thermostat.

No electricity required.

They look kind of fake, but they work great.

Posted: 10/27/2021 12:22:16 AM EST

[#16]

I just adjust the little dial thingy on the wall........

Posted: 10/27/2021 12:23:46 AM EST

[#17]

Natural gas central air mostly...

Posted: 10/27/2021 12:23:54 AM EST

[#18]

Gas forced air furnace for primary, vermont wood stove for supplementary upstairs and gas fireplace downstairs for supplementary.

Posted: 10/27/2021 12:31:47 AM EST

[#19]

Can't select more than one option so going to have to sit this one out.

Posted: 10/27/2021 12:41:53 AM EST

[#20]

I see a ton of sad people hooked on phonics....

Posted: 10/27/2021 3:35:07 AM EST

[#21]

elect furnace, keep it at 60, keeps the pipes from freezing.

air blowing fireplace with glass doors, heats over 1/2 the house. wife keeps the living room
about 80...I haul wood.

Posted: 10/27/2021 4:25:34 AM EST

[#22]

Poll lacks stuff. Oil furnace + electric baseboards + electric subfloor + sunlight

An old oil furnace provides main heat. Bedrooms also have baseboard heaters. Sunroom warms up and I open its doors during the day to let warm air into the house. Bathrooms have subfloor electric heater to remain cozy in winter. This helps a lot with the bills, since wife likes to keep the indoors temp between 70 and 75 during the cold months.

Posted: 10/27/2021 4:49:29 AM EST

[#23]

A gas furnace, but I only use it a few times a year being in central Florida.

Posted: 10/27/2021 4:53:04 AM EST

[#24]

None of the above

Primary is heat pump. Secondary is oil fired boiler for hot water and baseboard heat. When the outside temp gets down to 25 the heat pump turns off.

Posted: 10/27/2021 4:58:01 AM EST

[#25]

I turn off the air conditioning

Posted: 10/27/2021 5:01:35 AM EST

[#26]

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Heat pump, doesn’t get cold enough here to need anything else.

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Shit happens, yo. Got to below zero here in February for toooooooo long. It could happen there. Prolly not though. We are all electric in this subdivision. Gas is N/A.

Posted: 10/27/2021 5:11:05 AM EST

[#27]

Woodstove and gas furnace but mostly the woodstove

Posted: 10/27/2021 6:41:56 AM EST

[#28]

Nut coal.

Posted: 10/27/2021 6:42:40 AM EST

[#29]

Wood, with gas as backup

Posted: 10/27/2021 6:43:05 AM EST

[#30]

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friction
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Posted: 10/27/2021 6:52:34 AM EST

[#31]

Wood stove propane backup when away.Great workout cut and split keeps me in shape.

Posted: 10/27/2021 6:55:53 AM EST

[#32]

I don’t

Posted: 10/27/2021 6:57:24 AM EST

[#33]

boiler. combination of radiant heat and baseboards.

Posted: 10/27/2021 6:59:31 AM EST

[#34]

vaulted ceilings in a northern climate are about as stupid as a person can get.
I knew better got one anyway
Better off with a greenhouse for sunlight

Posted: 10/27/2021 7:01:38 AM EST

[#35]

Heat Pump

Posted: 10/27/2021 7:03:19 AM EST

[#36]

wood furnace

Posted: 10/27/2021 7:03:41 AM EST

[#37]

boiler to baseboard radiators, six zones
natural gas

Posted: 10/27/2021 7:10:06 AM EST

[#38]

Wood pellets

Posted: 10/27/2021 7:12:12 AM EST

[#39]

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Unvented natural gas fireplace logs

https://www.hearthsidedistributors.com/Crescent-Hill.jpg

30,000 BTUs, controlled by a mechanical thermostat.

No electricity required.

They look kind of fake, but they work great.

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We had those when we lived in north AL. Worked great to keep our 3200 sqft house warm during the mostly mild AL winters.

Now, we heat with firewood. I have a nice warm fire going as we speak!

Posted: 10/27/2021 7:17:59 AM EST

[#40]

Fuel oil furnace tied to a wood stove. Sharing a forced air system.
I run the wood during the coldest periods, and if the power is out.

Posted: 10/27/2021 7:20:16 AM EST

[#41]

Voted natural gas, but also have a nice wood stove for back up along with several cords of wood!

Posted: 10/27/2021 7:23:19 AM EST

[#42]

Pellet stove is primary although the house does have propane forced air it rarely runs.

Posted: 10/27/2021 7:23:51 AM EST

[#43]

The cabin has a wood stove, mini split and electric baseboard. I just never removed the baseboard heat when I put the mini split in.

Using the mini split right now as it's not quite cold enough to heat with wood yet.

Posted: 10/27/2021 7:26:15 AM EST

[#44]

Gas, Keep it set on 75 screw being chilly in my own house

Posted: 10/27/2021 7:28:00 AM EST

[#45]

Poll fail, no option for gas heater...

Posted: 10/27/2021 7:31:00 AM EST

[#46]

I not sure if my heater even works. It's been at least two years since I've used it.

Posted: 10/27/2021 7:32:11 AM EST

[#47]

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Gas forced air furnace for primary, vermont wood stove for supplementary upstairs and gas fireplace downstairs for supplementary.

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This almost. Just swapped our main floor wood fireplace to a Buck Stove Model 91 insert. Also will run a Fire Chief wood furnace in the basement when it gets really cold. Propane gas furnace. Propane downstairs fireplace.