How do you heat your house?

Thats a nice stack, looks almost fake

 

we get wood from trimming the massive cottonwoods in the yard. We have never paid for wood.

 

Up in Winnipeg Canada we see -40 for about 2 months a year. I prefer Gas central heat as it not a dry heat like electric. My high efficiency furnace costs slightly more than electric and works faster with more even heat without the dry static problems from electric.

 

Still cant imagine how cold in the minus is

 

exhaust fumes...warm and sleepy time.

 

Hey Korben, is that how they di it in the middle east?

 

naw they burn camel turds.

 

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I do that in the day time too, im talking when you have to heat your house, lets say at night when the temp drops

 

I poop in a bucket all summer long and sit it outside to dry. When winter comes around we bring our fire pit inside and open up the exterior hatch on our roof and burn what I have saved.

 

pics or it didn't happen

 

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At night I close the windows and it is fine!

 

It's a pita making those end stacks. No need for it today, weatherman says it'll be 70*!

 

Just the ends.

 

250 gal Fuel Oil Tank - Furnace - 4 zones of hot water baseboard heat (in a nutshell)

I grew up in Michigan where this kind of heat is unheard of (mainly forced air) so the whole system is very new to me. It took some getting used to but I actually like it.

Trying to quiet the system down a bit but from what I'm told; "nature of the beast" due to all the exspansion and contraction. Any ideas?

 

The house has a heat pump and the wood stove is going in next week. I figure cutting, splitting and stacking the wood should keep the beer off this winter.

 

Is it air trapped in the system ?

 

I have the same thing but a 400 gallon tank. This is pretty much the standard here, however a lucky few get to use a gas furnace. I would love to convert.

When I fill up (I fill at 1/4 tank) thats 300 gallons @3.20 (right now) a gallon + tax. 300 gallons lasts about 1.5 months.

Trapped air could be some noise, but I think he is referring to the expansion of the radiator fins. It makes a "ticking" sound but stops a few minutes after the heat comes on. Also the walls tend to creek a slight bit from the heat.


When I moved in, there was an old wood burning stove that was disconnected from a sealed off chimney. I bought a new stove and had it connected to the chimney. It works great, but the next morning we sometimes get a back draft where the air is coming back in, and the room smells like smoke. I think it has something to do with my house somehow getting negative pressure. Opening the windows will usually fix this, but its annoying as all hell.