When do you put on the heat?
 

Just curious to see if anyone has put their heat on yet and what is the longest anyone has gone without it? :jump1:

Heats on in VT

Wife is knocked up, heat is on and AC's are still in the windows. :wall:

LOL. went on yesterday morning. Today I cleaned out the back room so i can start using the woodstove, but hopefully not too soon.

We bumped the heat on Thursday afternoon or Friday?? Just to take the curse off a chilly afternoon as my wife was working from home......but we will wait until it has to be on! Tonight we had a cozy fire in the fireplace!

We're on about 4 nights with the pellet stove running on 3. Had to shut it off last night it was 75 upstairs. Free Pellets this year due to a factory effup on original product. Have an addition on one side that is a family room-is on oil zone and pellet heat really don't get in there. I turned the zone on once watching tv one night.

i'll use an electric oil filled heater for the small office to keep me cozy and warm

occasionally the heat is turned on to 68 to bring the house up to
a comfortable temperature then its shut off again.

to maximize the heat from the dryer "typically wasted" i am going to recirculate it thru the old forced hot air ducts here (reconfigured) since they're not used anymore and the house has base board heating now.

i am going to fill certain larger sections with bricks that have 3 holes in them so they get warmed up and then send that extra heat out to the green house which is down hill from the house and on sunny days it'll work in reverse and the extra heat will travel from the green house back up to the basement and heat the bricks from the other direction when the dryer isn't being used.

Fire on (low) since Friday :wall:

Only for about a half the last few mornings.Really can't afford to put it on until its absolutely necessary.

I try to hold out as long as possible but my wife freezes easily. While I'm walking around the house in shorts/tshirts, she's got 2 layers on and is still cold.

We agreed to set our internal thermostat at 60. House temp must have dropped lower last night because it kicked on.

Bumped it up yesterday. Furnace sounds like hell, lotsa bubbling and rushing water:smash:shoulda just put on another sweatshirt,

heat?
 

huh?

not yet.. no need...never before November 1...
(can hear my old man now..."wassa matter Nancy-Boy, you chilly?")

if I lit the stove now the house would be over 80 in no time flat...

don't like it too hot anyways...

small (28X30) cape style house, 2X6 walls, plenty of insulation..
good anderson windows, southern exposure...
doesn't take much to keep it warm...but cannot imagine running heat of any kind just yet... has it been that cold off cape???
no frost yet here...grass still growing, and no frost kill in the gardens.

grab a sweatshirt, you'll be fine.

[QUOTE=Karl F;802869]huh?

not yet.. no need...never before November 1...
(can hear my old man now..."wassa matter Nancy-Boy, you chilly?")

I can remember my Dad saying "shut the door what do you think I am heating the street" another one of his favorites was "what do you think I work for the oil company" and he actually did. :)

Woke up the other morning, looked at the clock in our bedroom with a temp gauge on it and it read 59 degrees. Thank god for the heated mattress pad we were given as a house warming gift.

No on the southern exposure for me b/c of trees, but yup, 24X32 cape and insulation as much as possible! Spray R44 in the attic R30 in the dormers and good windows. house was 67 yesterday afternoon. nice and comfy, but I sense the wife turning it on soon for the wee one's benefit. his hands were cold this morning when he woke up.

Mine has been on for a month now, I hate being cold

Pussy.

Has anyone tried the radiating foil (basically Al foil) over the spray loose insulation in the attic? supposed to reflect cold in the winter and heat in the summer, regulating the house a bit....

bumped it on thurs for short time and every day since.turned it way down at nite and when it was on and we were leaving house turned way down.alot of years ago during oil shortage had a coal stove and also bought a dryer vent.cut dryer vent hose and attached a closeable vent in line.opened to try and heat basement where dryer was.so raven it did use to heat part of basement but big downside was air was moist and you got mold.so removed and got new dryer line.

Thanks Brian

:D

October 4th i think this year i cranked up the wood stove. I turned on the electric last night when i got back from soco. I try to wait until november 1st every year but it never works.