Had to use your furnace yet ?

IKE

IKE

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I just got up and the house is only 67 deg. which is just a little too nippy for me.....I just turned the furnace on for the first time this year to break the chill.

Anyone else had to use their furnace, fireplace etc. yet ?
 

Ahahaha! I live in Scotland. Take a guess.

Our heating system is run by computer and set at certain temp. We set it to holiday mode when we are away for more than a couple of weeks.
 
IKE said:
I just got up and the house is only 67 deg. which is just a little too nippy for me.....I just turned the furnace on for the first time this year to break the chill.

Anyone else had to use their furnace, fireplace etc. yet ?
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It is a little cooler down here near Dallas..56 degrees outside, but no I did not turn the furnace on, but we have used a small electric room heater..
 

Ken the current outside temp here now is 50 deg. or 48 deg. depending on which local news station you want to believe........I can vouch for it being chilly outside now tho, I just stepped outside to check for the Sunday paper wearing shorts and a t-shirt and let's just say I did it quickly. :)
 
57 degrees here and sunny...but it's still cold. I've just been in the back garden looking to see what needs doing before we go away..and despite the sun, it feels quite nippy. When I got up at 6am this morning it was really cold so I put the heating on for an hour using the boost remote control from my phone to the boiler.....

When winter gets here, the timer will be set so the house is warm when we get up for work at 5am..and then again for an hour before one of us is due home. If we forget to to set the timer, we both can access the heating control from our iphones while we're at work or out and about anywhere and turn the heating on remotely .. !:D
 
Mine is on for an hour in the morning, and two hours at night.
i don't need Holly's sophistication because I am always here..but I do keep my thermostat set at 19C
 
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We've already had the heat on (electric baseboard!!!!) for a few weeks now. It's 50 here now, but will get down to freezing tonight. Yes, the cold weather and accompanying high electric bills are here for the season.
 
We got an energy efficient air source heat pump a couple of years ago. Our heating costs have been cut by nearly 2/3. Our electric averages about £100/month and my clothes dryer, and hot water is electric. Only the hob is gas, oven is electric.
 
Ameriscot said:
We got an energy efficient air source heat pump a couple of years ago. Our heating costs have been cut by nearly 2/3. Our electric averages about £100/month and my clothes dryer, and hot water is electric. Only the hob is gas, oven is electric.
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We've looked into adding a heat pump as the entire house is electric. With retirement looming, we're not sure we want drop a large amount of cash (about $13,000 as I recall) to get this work done, but still mulling it over. We are having an energy consultant come in for an audit to make recommendations on what we can do to lower our bills.
 
Bobw235 said:
We've looked into adding a heat pump as the entire house is electric. With retirement looming, we're not sure we want drop a large amount of cash (about $13,000 as I recall) to get this work done, but still mulling it over. We are having an energy consultant come in for an audit to make recommendations on what we can do to lower our bills.
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We got this as we heard about a programme the Scottish government offered. £10,000 to install. Interest free loan. Plus they give a grant to everyone getting this of £800. Besides this, after one year a inspector came to see if the house qualified as energy efficient. We passed and we get a rebate every 3 months of £330 for 7 years. So this pays for the loan payment of £100/month. Our house is always comfortable now, whereas before it had chilly spots as we used LPG.

Our friends have a huge victorian house and recently got theirs done for £30,000 but they got the wood chips.
 
I have a fancy new heat pump too, my son put in one year ago for me, the thermostat is a computer....even tells me when to change the filter....my electric bill was running around $300 per month, it went down to $100...the heat has not come on here yet.
 
Jackie22 said:
I have a fancy new heat pump too, my son put in one year ago for me, the thermostat is a computer....even tells me when to change the filter....my electric bill was running around $300 per month, it went down to $100...the heat has not come on here yet.
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We were told the ground source heat pump would be £15,000 to install. Air source £10,000. Can't remember the differences between them in efficiency. Our bill is about the same - £100 month.
 
36 degrees F, here this morning. Had our first noticeable frost. We still won't turn on the furnace for some time. If my wife were in total control of heat/cool, our pipes would freeze before she turns on the furnace. She loves the cooler temps. Always has. I had to have a pretty good "discussion" with her this morning just to get her to close the window over our bed.

I used to enjoy the colder weather vs. the hot summers. As age has added a certain amount of "maturity" to body parts.... each winter I like cold weather less.
 
We had some frosty mornings about 10 days ago, so I fired up the big outdoor wood furnace for a couple of days....primarily to make sure everything works good before the cold weather sets in. We may get another cold spell later this week, so I'll run it again for a couple of days. According to the long range forecasts, it may be the 2nd week in November before I have to start running it continuously...in the interim, if we get a chilly morning, running the house furnace for a couple of hours in the AM suffices.

I've got about 8 cords of wood split and stacked and ready to go....and another 3 or 4 cords still to be split. Unless we have a record breaking Winter, I should have plenty to last into next April. We had a major wind storm pass through in July, and there are still dozens of big trees in the forest that have been damaged/blown over. I can probably collect enough wood out of those to last the next Winter...maybe two.
 
In Colorado, we've been having to turn ours on in the morning for around two weeks now, to take the chill out. Winter's around the corner, I love all the seasons and look forward to them all. Fall and spring my favs. We have the new puppy in the house too, so we want it cozy for him when we come in from our early morning potty training.
 
Jackie22 said:
I have a fancy new heat pump too, my son put in one year ago for me, the thermostat is a computer....even tells me when to change the filter....my electric bill was running around $300 per month, it went down to $100...the heat has not come on here yet.
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How handy your Son can install a heat pump for you, Jackie...can he be rented. :) We have a thermostat like yours, and it just let us know it's time to change our filter.
 
Furnace??? what's that? last one I had was up in Massachusetts 15 years ago. Damn thing almost made me broke.
Now I have teenie,weenie space heater that heats this whole house in Florida.
 
Our heat's been on for about a month now here in Toronto. 10 C this morning, a bit cool, but fresh fall weather is lovely.
 
Recently some new houses built in Braemar (N. Scotland) had air source heat pumps fitted, but they had to be upgraded because they only worked down to -15 C. (5 Deg F). I was told that the efficiency drops off, the colder it gets.

I have an oil fired boiler (furnace has a different meaning in the UK) which provides central heating and hot water. This is very common in rural Scotland. Cost averages about £50 ($80) a month. Temp is about 10 C (50 F) at present and to maintain an internal temp of 18 C , the boiler runs for about 30 mins in the morning and evening.

I don't have any fancy computer controls on the boiler, just a timer and a thermostat.
 

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