Thursday, February 6, 2014

Luxury

This morning I was busy running around the house doing chores and answering phone calls and failed to keep an eye on the pellet stove. Once I checked on it, I realized it had shut down due to being out of pellets, and the house seemed very cold indeed.  It was 64 degrees, but I usually try and heat it to at least 69 degrees in daytime so when we come home from work it's still got some warmth in it.

So I turned on the HVAC, which heats the whole house using extremely expensive propane.  It's now warm and toasty.  A luxury I don't indulge in often, and therefore greatly appreciated.  A heater which heats every room in the house, closets, and bathrooms, at the same time!  I used to take that for granted. 


So nice to have a really warm house, but we won't do this every day.  As I said, propane is expensive and although having constant temperatures throughout our living spaces is lovely, it's not really worth going broke over lol. 

2 comments:

  1. Have your propane and natural gas prices skyrocketed this year too? Around here, and especially up in Wisconsin and Michigan, there is a "shortage" due to the extremely cold winter. Shortage as in they can charge more for it. Regardless, this winter has shown me it needs to be a priority for me to do geothermal when I build. I'd probably end up running my mouth to the propane guy and he'd leave me in the cold! But I totally take HVAC for granted. I should think of it as a luxury as you do. It certainly is!

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    1. I never thought of HVAC as a luxury until we bought a propane-heated home here. Hence the wood-burning pellet stove. Natural gas at our old place was so much cheaper! Our neighbors who use propane to heat spend about $300 a month in winter, and as you know, it's not really THAT cold here! If I was going to build a home, I agree with you -- geothermal would be a brilliant way to go. I can't believe more homes aren't built that way, since it's not only inexpensive, it also requires no maintenance costs. It's brilliant, really.

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