How is your house or apartment heated?

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It's almost winter time, and for a lot of us, that means cold weather! I was just wondering what people heat their homes or apartments with?


I have natural gas, with a forced air furnace, Our hot water system is also natural gas but sometimes the pipes freeze during winter I have a pipe heater system that you plug it in and keep the pipes from freezing up.:)
 
Our central heat is electric heat pump. If it gets cold enough outside, we like to use our wood stove for cozy evening fires. So far this year we haven't had cold weather. :( It is mostly in the 50's at night, 70's in the daytime.
 
My duplex has a oil to warm whole of house, it's pretty expensive.. i would use half gallon for night only.. but morning and evening i use heater with plug in.. it's save alot of money..

i didn't even complain about it.. i set 68 degree in my duplex and i feel perfect
 
What? Cold? I wish I can feel cold in here. I live in California and I hardly feel any coldness in here or outside. That's one of many wonderful things about California :P

Actually, it takes real cold weather to make me feel cold for some reason. Apparently due to my Swedish blood, I guess. My date often complain about the cold, whenever she complains, I used the electric heat to warm up. I sure missed the cold weather in Vermont. I lived in there for one year and I loved it but lack of deaf society and services, it is not worth my time and my money.
 
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What? Cold? I wish I can feel cold in here. I live in California and I hardly feel any coldness in here or outside. That's one of many wonderful things about California :P
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Pfff.. You sure are lucky one aren't you? ha! :)
 
Cheri, come to California then! :P

Actually I know for sure that in North California, it is quite cold there right now. That's where I will be in next year or earlier than that. I cannot wait.
 
I'm not sure how my flat is heated, but the heat comes from the radiators. It feels warm in the house, about 73° right now. When it was so cold last week, it was a bit chilly at 68°.
 
I use air forced heat furnace, set to around 60 degrees. At night I would use thick blankets to keep myself warm during chilling night, conserving gas.
 
At the cabins I have wood stoves!!!! One of em with a cat.

Here at the home i have forced air. Gas bill's quite low too.
 
natural Gas with force air too


But hate when you have to turn downstair heat first..(basement finished wall to wall have two room in basement soo Our bedroom is in basement since we got baby now).... Then turn upstair on.. but I have strange feeling we need to put plastic on windows so heat wouldn't run that high anymore.. We also have fireplace.... we often use them


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Tempature oil heating. Heating turn off automaic when the warm weather comes or fire with woods in the fire place to heat every rooms to save oil used.

oil floor heating (floor tiles) for bathroom and toilet.

I don't like heating in my bedroom because of sleeping problem but I has to turn lowest heat on due freezing weather (to protect frozen pipes).
 
Gas furnace with forced air...our new house is pretty warm upstairs but freezing in the basement at times...that's where I sleep...but since I have quilts made by my grandmother, I'm often warm and cozy...and my cats love it, too.
 
When don't use the heat often because it doesn't get very cold here. But I do like having a programable thermostat now. We can set the heat low for the night, then it automatically comes on about 30 minutes before we wake up. That way, the house is warmed up before we go downstairs.

Our central electric heat pump is a heater in the winter, and is also the air conditioner in the summer. It uses the same blower and ducts for both systems.

The weather today, high 75 degrees, the low 55 degrees. :)

Houses here do not have basements. Our furnace is in the laundry room, and the heat pump is outside the back of the house.
 
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since I live in an apt myself, so I keep my temperature down to little under 60 and it's still warm here and my electric bill was so damn low recently so I expect it to be around under 60 dollar for winter since heat bill will double during the winter...
 
at my home, we use furance to heat up the house (carbon monoxide anyone?) or simple blankets and thick socks (all of the heat would go upstairs where our beds are so it is roasty warm nighttime)...

at C's home, he got this kickass Lopi fireplace... this looks somewhat like this:
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it will bring the livingroom temperature up to 80 degrees but the rest of the house-- forget it. it is freezing cold-- had to use layers of blanket just to warm ourselves up while asleep. (wooden floors; no concrete foundation, no insulation in the walls... echh...)
 
My room is heated by RIT's heater system. My room can get as hot as 80 degrees! ;)
 
here at my apt we use forced air electric fan heater mounted in the wall, it works nicely, we also have the radiator oil heater that plugs to the electrical outlet. In the bedroom we have a base heater which is electric and takes forever to heat up, lol. Almost 2 years ago, at my old place, a 1,800 sq ft house had a forced air central heating furance run by heating oil; it's red in color, not natural gas. It has a 300 gallon tank buried underground. The truck comes to refill it once every 3 months or so. Keep all of urself warm! Don't catch some cold or whatever. :)
 
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