One of the ways is that it cost me $4 a day to heat my house/bunker. I discovered heating with wood pellets. I bought the stove last January after a $750 bill for fuel oil. The stove cost me $750 discounted from $1200. It paid it self off in 3 months. The basement is 72 degreesF for the first time in it's 60 year history. The heat goes up into the rest by convection/conduction. No fan. I will buy no more oil. Used to cost 25 cents a gallon , now it $4+. I recommend usage of wood pellet stoves. I don't sell them. But my business was HVACR.

 

Dont think thats much help in Southern states.. 2 months later repo man comes to visit.. LOL.
Move my 24 yr old daughter out.. now that makes another car payment!

 

Ya empty nesters here now, that does save alot !!! but I really miss all the uninvited friends the two kids use to have over all the time !!! Seems like our house was the meeting place for going out all the time !!! and we loved it !!! Way to quiet now !!!!

 

 

Hey.. guess I could tell the wife no to adding a sauna tub and walk in closet to the master bedroom! But then I'd probably have to sleep in it and they don't look real comfy for that lifestyle..

Arado.. Hows that wood pellet stove thing work out for heating a sauna tub? Just in case you have insight..

 

It would be easy to make a water heater from the stove, but I heat my water with photovoltaic elements attached to the lower element.in my water heater. I use the sun to heat my bath.

 

You live in a bunker?
What can I say that is not construed as political?
You must be quite scared of your neighbors.
Too much magnesium makes you paranoid, add a spark and we have a big flash of light.

 

No comment.. I"m not allowed to use the P word here..

 

What does this post have to do with Crossfires?

 

Lmao........carbon monoxide from the the wood stove. Makes your thread wonder off subject.

 

bunker is incidental. my family built the stone house when I was 10 yrs old. I helped. Later I bought the house from them so they could retire to Florida. It killed them. They left the well they had put in. It's rich in magnesium. At the time I did not know the value. I had that water most of my life by luck. However, My mother lived to 98. My dad 76 ..he smoked.

 

I also do HVAC, have thought that all the leaves would be good to feed into a stove like pellets. Oil is way expensive unless it is waste oil burner. Woody

 

Nothing wrong with being frugal. Especially in today's economy. I work a 2nd job that goes toward the toys. That's my excuse.

 

ya thats what I was going to say get a job or two !!!!

 

I'm with arado; use an air tight wood burning stove in the living room and circulate the air with ceiling fan. It will keep the electric heatpump from running through out the night when temps drop below 37. Wood has no cost except for the work of cutting and splitting as I have a few trees mother nature drops for me each year right on my place. Two years back on our return home from the Dragon I had to get my tractor to pull a fallen tree off my driveway before we could get the XF in the garage. Saving money on electricity helps put gasoline in the XF.

 

I use my overtime money to spend on toys !!! Moma never sees it !!!!! : )