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10/28/05, 05:01 PM
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Beef,Its whats for dinner
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Southern WV
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heating your home
I was wondering how do you heat your home?
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10/28/05, 05:07 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Canada - Zone 5
Posts: 1,184
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Wood Stove with electric furnace for when we aren't home.
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10/28/05, 06:12 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: near Abilene,TX
Posts: 5,323
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We use butane plus we have a wood heating stove to supplement in the living room. We basically live in just one room during the winter time. We use a heating mattress pad in our bedroom as we do not use heat in there, plus alot of quilts.
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10/28/05, 06:52 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Maryland
Posts: 1,259
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Wood stove. And I just bought an oil-filled electric radiator for when we're out.
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10/28/05, 07:34 PM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: southern CA
Posts: 1,174
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My primary heating fuel is oil. I have a boiler for the hot water system that uses old fashioned cast iron radiators. The boiler also heats my hot water year round. Most of the second floor has electric baseboard heat, with a thermostat in each bedroom. It is only turned on for guests who can't deal with a cold bedroom.
I start a fire in the woodstove each evening for extra warmth. During the daytime, i am in and out of the house and keep busy. During the evenings I basically sit around at the computer and/or TV and feel chilly without the supplemental woodstove heat.
I have programmable thermostats that I keep at 63, 64, or 65 depending on the time of day and heating zone, and 55 overnight.
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10/28/05, 07:59 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Ohio
Posts: 4,325
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We use a couple of woodburners. Last year we started to get concerned about staying warm so I did some heavy insulating, and added some large windows on the south facing wall (thermopane). Several mornings we had temps in the 70"s with the fire out overnight. When the temp outside is 15 or so and the temp inside is 70 it is real hard to get up, at least for a while. The insulation has paid it's way, and hopefully will pay again this year. 
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10/28/05, 08:35 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Washington
Posts: 2,832
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Woodstove with a propane furnace for when we're out or just plain lazy.
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10/28/05, 08:58 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: White Mountains, Arizona
Posts: 2,478
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Wood stove for a part and a whole house propane furnace. I have ordered, but not received, a pellet stove that will take the place of the propane furnace. Expect my winter heat bill to decrease by 70-80%.
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10/28/05, 09:09 PM
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Misty Gonzales
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: CO
Posts: 1,027
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we use a wood stove. There is no other option. Our house doesn't have any other form of heater.
www.geocities.com/gonzalesshowpigs
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10/28/05, 09:14 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Dysfunction Junction, SW PA
Posts: 4,808
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a woodstove with 100 watt baseboard heaters in each room on seperate thermostats, ifthey are neded... like today when I cant walk as my back went out of joint... so no carrying wood! or anything!
i dunno what bugs me more... the electric consumption or the pain...
probably the electric..
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10/28/05, 09:28 PM
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Zone 7
Posts: 10,559
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A geothermal heatpump, works great and is reasonable regarding costs of operation.
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10/28/05, 10:08 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Oklahoma
Posts: 936
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A natural gas wall heater & a fireplace!
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10/28/05, 10:13 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 1,523
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We heat the whole house with a wood stove. There is a small propane heater in the bathroom that is only used early in the morning. It will probably be used even less this year to save propane.
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10/28/05, 10:41 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Southeastern Massachusetts
Posts: 148
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I have an oil burner, with a hot water heater. I keep the temp, at 55 degrees. Then I have a woodstove and a fireplace with a Texas fireframe. At night with the 55 degree temp, I sleep under a goosedown quilt, with a cotten blanket, summer quilt, and jersy sheet under it. I am warm as toast.
My big worry is feeding the furnace. I have looked into getting the biofuel but cannot find a distributer in my area.
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10/28/05, 10:51 PM
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More dharma, less drama.
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Texas Coastal Bend/S. Missouri
Posts: 30,490
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We have a wood stove in the living room. It's an "Earth Stove" purchased in 1979. It's wonderful. Controlled air flow, no smoke in the house, will still have coals going in the morning if you build the fire right the night before.
If it gets REALLY cold, I have a small electric heater for the bathroom, so that I'm not chilled after a shower.
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10/28/05, 11:04 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: IA
Posts: 5,499
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We heat primarily with wood in our Country Flame fireplace, which is thermostatically controlled. It has a blower system and is ducted thru the house like the furnace is. We have a furnace in the house for backup which runs off propane.
In addition we have 6 huge skylights in our south facing living room (and 2 smaller ones in our kitchen) which provide a great deal of passive solar heat and natural lighting. The skylights will raise the temperature in the house approx. 20+ degrees when the sun is blasting in from the south/southwest.
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10/29/05, 09:51 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: n.w. ohio
Posts: 80
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corn with propane back up
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10/29/05, 09:55 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: far north Idaho
Posts: 11,134
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We use gas log stoves (Waterford and Jotul) converted to burn propane. They are beautiful and our cabin is warm and cozy.
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10/29/05, 10:00 AM
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The Awesome PT & Friends
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Dinwiddie, Southern VA
Posts: 2,179
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Primarily wood stove with a fuel oil heater for back up. Sweaters and hot chocolate are used much in the winter too 
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"Courage is being scared to death--and saddling up anyway" John Wayne
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10/29/05, 11:08 AM
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Western New York State
Posts: 47
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Natural Gas high efficiency furnace,natural gas hot water,Pellet stove with an inverter and three deep cycle batteries (for when the power goes out)heats most of my downstairs.My pellet stove will burn corn also but I have not tried it yet!I would like to someday put in a add on wood-coal combination furnace to eliminate the need for the natural gas furnace.
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