What's The Primary Source Of Heat For Your Home?

[arwalden]

Our primary heat is fuel oil... but our garage has gas heat.

On the coldest nights we'll fire up the portable kerosene heater while we're watching TV in the den.


Edit: Whoops... I forgot one.

[Magrittes Pipe]

1. The whims of the downstairs neighbors.

:scared:

[DelawareValleyDem]

2. My hot air

[Voltaire]

3. Books

<snarf>

[eyesroll]

4. I have a natural gas furnace, but radiator heaters

Works well. My apartment's damned expensive to heat, though -- 10-food ceilings and 1920s windows don't help.

[RoeBear]

16. You have a boiler

not a furnace. Just getting technical on ya.

[eyesroll]

17. D'oh. Yeah.

But it's still natural gas. (Most boilers in this area seem to be oil-fired.)

[StaggerLee]

5. The fire FROM the Taco Bell

:D

actually it's a gas furnace. I do have an electric heat panel on one side of my living room and a very small electric space heater for those really cold days.

[Bertha Venation]

6. Propane.

Very common in So. MD.

And if it gets too cold at night, we don't get up to adjust the thermostat; we just throw another cat on.

[arwalden]

7. LOL!! Another CAT!!

Fan forced propane heat or convection (open flame) propane? --- Our propane heater (open flame) that's in the garage will heat that place up in NO TIME!! It can get toasty warm in no time at all.

[Bertha Venation]

10. Fan-forced, I guess... it's a big furnace in the basement.

The propane heats the water heater and the stove & oven too.

But I like kitty heat the best. prrrrrrr

[arwalden]

15. Yep... that's what you have if it's in the basement...

... with a blower to force the heat through ductwork. Ours is just a wall-mounted un-vented propane heater. It's brand new... with an automatic pilot and a thermostat, but it's still the old-style gas heater that looks like a blue-flame fireplace.

I'm amazed that LP costs more than fuel oil this year!! (From Suburban Propane anyway.) Sigh.

[Bertha Venation]

18. We're served by SP, too. Our last refill (last week) was $2.09/gallon.

:wow:

You have to forgive me, Allen, I have only been a homeowner (in the usual sense ;)) for four years. I'm learning homeowner type things as I go along. (Fan-forced, for example.) :shrug:

[greendog]

8. Gas now...

...but I've heated with wood, oil, electric, and city steam in the past.

Favorite costwise: steam
Favorite overall: wood with gas backup

[mike_c]

9. I said other-- I have both a gas furnace and a wood stove...

...and use the wood stove for about 75 percent of my heating needs, which are rather minimal in any event. I typically turn on the furnace for about 20 minutes first thing in the morning to take the chill off before showering and such. I rarely need any heat during the the day unless the weather is bad, and I burn the stove at night when the sun goes down and the house begins to cool.

I burn a little less than a cord of wood each winter.

[Beware the Beast Man]

11. Long sleeves and blankets

We just got our gas bill...:scared:

[fairfaxvadem]

12. Your garage has gas heat?

Where do you live that you have a heating system for your garage? Or is it converted?

Interesting...

When I looked for a townhouse in my price range with gas heat, I was shocked at how many had those horrible heat pumps.

[XNASA]

13. Forced Air - Gas

I once lived in a house with a Hot Water Return System with radiators that was Gas Fueled. That was the best.

Toasty, even heat that didn't dry out the air.

[flvegan]

14. My Great Dane

It can be 40 degrees in my house (rarity in Florida), but he's always where I am, and he's quite the furnace.