How do you heat your house?

Why not just get one of these space heaters?



I have one with a remote mounted thermostat so you can place it away from the heater and it will maintain that temp.

I use one of these to heat my garage in the winter and it will heat up my 2 car garage in about 30minutes to and hour.

 

We would get one of those, but here on the bigisland the electricity is expensive, plus a wood one just looks so freakin sweet!

 

And you can't roast marshmellows or hot dogs on a space heater.

 

Sure you can...I do it all the time.


JK

 

We have a baseboard hot water heating system heated by an oil-fired HOT boiler. The thermostat controls the water flow by activating a pump and the boiler keeps itself hot regardless of the pump's activation. It is extremely expensive to run. We fill our 500 gallon tank with diesel #2 dyed heating oil twice a year. (similar to regular diesel only taxed differently).

It does have 5% biodiesel in it. Our boiler would need to be converted to run on biodiesl because it does have a few seals that are incompatible and the fuel lines are copper. In addition, the injector is not calibrated for the high cetane bumber of biodiesel and it can actually inject and overload the burner if not calibrated. We would love to use biodiesel but it is still more expensive than regular heating diesel. You can't beat the type of heat it produces. It is very even. The only downside is the lack of air circulation, however, it was designed to run so hot that windows could be opened. back when boilers were installed in houses, fuel was inexpensive and windows could be left open for fresh air!

We also have a large wood stove but it is on one side of the house. It heats the whole house but it is too close to the boiler's thermostat so it shuts off the pump and freezes my ass off upstairs.

We have considered other options but are limited due to the water needing to be heated to 180 degrees. Our neighbor has an outdoor wood boiler and we have considered that option, but they use a lot of wood and it would get a little spendy. My long-term goal is either an instant hot-water boiler or biodiesel.

 

So you have hot water running through your base boards to heat your house? i dont understand

 

Yes exactly. It's small radiators.

 

Cool, so this devise gives off enough to heat your house?

 

Not mine I don't have it. Yes it can heat a house. You have a lot of these throughout the house, often more than one per room.

 

Does that sort of heating produce condensation at all? and does that cause troubles? some how it doesnt seem to good but then again i am new to this kind of stuff, im a newb!

 

any kind of heat is going to make condensation. DEPENDING on the temp outside. in my opinion, that kind of heat would be a pain in the ass to maintain. BUT todays technology, probably makes it easier to maintain. does that make sense?

 

Tonight it's a fire in the fireplace in chilly PA!

 

A little

 

dont hide inside a bag... dude i have been in the HVAC (heating and ventalation and air conditioning for 13 years. installing furnace systems, zone systems, light commecial. i switched jobs for a better oppertunity. (i thought) im learning new things every other day!! i love my job. if you are willing to expand your mind, then you will get it!

 

how big is your house? where do you live? what do you have for heat now...or do you?

 

He's in Hawaii

Use your drywall heaters

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if he lives on a volcano, then why would he need a heater?

 

Exactamo

 

Natural gas furnace here.