Aren't you glad you don't have to shovel coal? My house was electric baseboard heat before I moved in. The landlord switched it over to baseboard hot water with an oil furnace before I bought the house. I know electric heat is expensive, but we've already spent almost $1200 on oil this season, and we'll probably have to get one more $500+ delivery to get through the cold weather. And I keep this place pretty cool. There's a solar heat unit that I'd love to be able to put on the house, but I don't have an appropriate wall on the south side. If we can manage to enclose the deck, I could put it there. It would heat 3/4 of the house for pennies. The unit itself only costs about $3K, but enclosing the deck is the expensive part, since we would likely put the new roof on the whole house at the same time. Someday.
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Date: 2013-01-26 09:53 pm (UTC)My house was electric baseboard heat before I moved in. The landlord switched it over to baseboard hot water with an oil furnace before I bought the house. I know electric heat is expensive, but we've already spent almost $1200 on oil this season, and we'll probably have to get one more $500+ delivery to get through the cold weather. And I keep this place pretty cool.
There's a solar heat unit that I'd love to be able to put on the house, but I don't have an appropriate wall on the south side. If we can manage to enclose the deck, I could put it there. It would heat 3/4 of the house for pennies. The unit itself only costs about $3K, but enclosing the deck is the expensive part, since we would likely put the new roof on the whole house at the same time. Someday.