how is your house/apartment/living space heated?

[bertha katzenengel]

I'm sure I don't know all the types, so please use "other" and educate me!

[DS1]

1. The Sun

;-)

[bertha katzenengel]

3. thank you

:dunce: <- me

[WeRQ4U]

2. Inefficiently .

My house was built in 1923. It's a little "drafty" shall we say. We use natural gas / hot water radiant heat.

[SteppingRazor]

4. Other: None

I live in South Florida. We don't do the whole "home heating" thing... but you should see my air-conditioning-related energy bills in July and August :wow:

[yewberry]

5. Electric

I should confess that I live in a pretty moderate climate and I haven't turned on the heat yet this winter.

[bertha katzenengel]

7. I guess electric heat might be most practical in a warm climate.

I didn't include it in the poll because I honestly couldn't conceive of it. :shrug:

[GOPisEvil]

10. Electric is very common in apartments down here in Texas.

[yewberry]

11. It's nuts in a cold climate.

I had electric heat in MA (where I spent the last two winters) and it was a nightmare. The house was so badly insulated that the *interior* walls of the bedroom would get frost spots behind furniture. The winter electric bills were unfriggingbelievable.

But now I'm back in Seattle, tra la!

[madinmaryland]

23. I have electric heat here in Maryland.

Its a forced hot air with the airexchange located outside. Actually not that expensive to heat our apartment. AC is more than heat. A lot of apartments & condos we looked at have this arrangement in Maryland.

[RebelOne]

17. Electric here also.

I have a furnace, which runs on propane, but I have been using 2 electric space heaters, which keep the place quite toasty warm. But, of course, I live in North Georgia where the winters are not really severe. I only use the furnace when the temperatures get into the teens, which is not that often. Maybe three or four days a year.

[Baclava]

22. Electric for me too....winter bills around $45/month.

Summer jacks up to $100/month May/June through September... for my small 3 bedroom house.

[GOPisEvil]

6. Natural gas, forced air furnace.

Original to the house (1983 :scared:)

[LSK]

8. those who answered Solar, can you elaborate on your system?

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. GFWA...aka Gas Forced Warm Air

:hi:

[Midlodemocrat]

12. Combination of natural gas and electric.

[seemunkee]

13. Split Oil in the main part, electric heat pump in extension

It was formerly a MIL suite and separate apartment so it has its own heat/AC source.

[rucky]

14. From the unit below us & a fireplace.

We're paying under $60/month to get us through the Ohio winter. Of course, it all evens out in the summer when we run A/C 24/7

[kick-ass-bob]

15. Natural gas. It's crazy, because up in Boone, NC (climate like Buffalo, NY

We only had electric - I don't think there was a place around that had gas.

Winter bills sucked ass. x(

[Deep13]

16. By shooting big rock in parlor with phaser, basking in radioactive glow.

:7

[ellie]

18. We have electric

baseboard heat and forced-air propane. We don't use the propane, just the electric. We don't turn the heaters on in everyone room, either. It gets chilly, but I can't afford high electric bills.

[Xithras]

19. Natural gas & a wood burning stove.

We really only use the gas at night when the stove isn't burning.

[haydukelives]

20. Hot water heated by gas

[NV Whino]

21. Vornado

electric space heater. I heat only the room I'm in. It's the most cost-effective method I've found for an all electric house.