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In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Sunday, December 9, 2018 6:07 PM
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:Do you have a programmable thermostat? That saved me a bunch.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 1kiki:Being cold is miserable. I think the only thing worse is being wet and cold.
It is miserable. Especially when you can't do anything about it.
Sorry to hear that Brenda. :(
Usually I'd be right with you there in solidarity, but I decided this year not to live in extreme cold inside the house because all I do is veg out under the covers playing games or watching youtube when I'm not at work. I refuse to let myself fall back into bad habits because it's cold outside, although I fear my heat bill is going to be a majority of what my take home pay is the next few months because of it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I don't.
I'm not going to say that it wouldn't help, because it probably would, but my furnace is from the early 60's and is still chugging along. It's in the attic, it's an upflow furnace, it puts the hot air along half of my roof before going down, and only heats from the ceilings in the 1st and 2nd floors, putting no hot air to the basement. There aren't enough returns, so the flow is very poor. You actually have to get up on a chair and feel about a foot 1/2 under the ducts to even feel the hot air coming out.
There is a slab and pipes for a basement furnace in the crawlspace, but until I'm sure I won't be having any flooding issues I'm not going to invest any money into that.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Sunday, December 9, 2018 6:52 PM
Quote:So all of your heat supply outlet vents are in the ceiling of your 1st & 2nd floors? And your furnace is above the ceiling of the 2nd floor?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:\
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:Do you have a programmable thermostat? That saved me a bunch.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Sorry to hear that Brenda. :(
Usually I'd be right with you there in solidarity, but I decided this year not to live in extreme cold inside the house because all I do is veg out under the covers playing games or watching youtube when I'm not at work. I refuse to let myself fall back into bad habits because it's cold outside, although I fear my heat bill is going to be a majority of what my take home pay is the next few months because of it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I don't.
I'm not going to say that it wouldn't help, because it probably would, but my furnace is from the early 60's and is still chugging along. It's in the attic, it's an upflow furnace, it puts the hot air along half of my roof before going down, and only heats from the ceilings in the 1st and 2nd floors, putting no hot air to the basement. There aren't enough returns, so the flow is very poor. You actually have to get up on a chair and feel about a foot 1/2 under the ducts to even feel the hot air coming out.
There is a slab and pipes for a basement furnace in the crawlspace, but until I'm sure I won't be having any flooding issues I'm not going to invest any money into that.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Where are your returns? In the floors, at the bottom of the walls, also in the ceiling? One in each room, one on each floor?
Do you have flow dampers in your ducts? Probably near your furnace, in the attic, but maybe elsewhere. Looks like an "L" lever in the side of the duct, or sometimes a "T"?
Is the ductwork in your attic bare metal, or wrapped in insulation, like a silver solar wrapping?
Have you used a thermometer to measure the temp at your heat vents, so you know what the temp is at each vent?
Do you have an air filter on the intake of the furnace, like before the air return goes into the furnace? Have you replaced it or cleaned/blown it out?
I'd bet your heat issue can be resolved for cheap, you just need to let it work. And I'm including your basement.
After you answer, I'll tell you what to try. But before I forget, the cheap options I'll talk about are at places like Restore, for instance. Plus St. Vincent's, Goodwill, Salvation Army.
Programmable thermostats do not need a new furnace, they just tell the furnace when to be on. So you can program it to be on an hour before you get home, an hour before you wake up, and mostly off the rest of the time. Unless you want it to be working mostly when the Sun is also helping, which saves the most $$. The last one I got was $14 about 8 years ago. The one I got 13 years ago was $30.
Once I tell you how to heat your house for cheap, instead of your roof shingles, you should save $$.
After you post a reply, you can start prep by measuring and writing down the temp at every single vent. You should also have at least one vent and also return which cannot be shut off, closed, etc. Identify which ones are those, if you don't already know. Also rest your thermometer on the main/central duct which comes out of the furnace, and record what that temp is when the furnace has run awhile, long enough for it to get warmed up. And if you can, rest/lean the thermometer against the duct at the attic floor, as it leaves the attic to go down through the house. You might have several of those, so any one is OK to record, or you can record 2: the one with the longest stretch of ductwork, with all twists and turns, from the furnace, and then the one with the shortest stretch of ductwork.
If you didn't know, putting all your heat into your roof shingles will melt the snow off your roof - a
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Sunday, December 9, 2018 11:43 PM
Hey Signy, here's a (not very readable) chart for the last rain-year that shows when the rain wasn't.
And here's the most recent data they have for this year (they just put this up - only 5 months late).
No rain is in the forecast for the next 20 days.
fwiw if the gifs don't show up in this post (they did at first, now they don't) 'reply with quote' to pick up the urls and access them in your browser.
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Sunday, December 9, 2018 11:43 PM
Rain and cold here today.
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Monday, December 10, 2018 3:49 AM
Tried those pancakes that I talked about and they are good. :)
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Monday, December 10, 2018 4:04 AM
Quote:How much water you add to that recipe? Or do you use 7-Up?
Originally posted by Brenda:
Tried those pancakes that I talked about and they are good. :)
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Monday, December 10, 2018 4:16 AM
Quote:Well dang-nab it for you. If you can't stay warm - stay dry!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Rain and cold here today.
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Monday, December 10, 2018 6:45 AM
Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:So all of your heat supply outlet vents are in the ceiling of your 1st & 2nd floors? And your furnace is above the ceiling of the 2nd floor?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:\
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:Do you have a programmable thermostat? That saved me a bunch.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Sorry to hear that Brenda. :(
Usually I'd be right with you there in solidarity, but I decided this year not to live in extreme cold inside the house because all I do is veg out under the covers playing games or watching youtube when I'm not at work. I refuse to let myself fall back into bad habits because it's cold outside, although I fear my heat bill is going to be a majority of what my take home pay is the next few months because of it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I don't.
I'm not going to say that it wouldn't help, because it probably would, but my furnace is from the early 60's and is still chugging along. It's in the attic, it's an upflow furnace, it puts the hot air along half of my roof before going down, and only heats from the ceilings in the 1st and 2nd floors, putting no hot air to the basement. There aren't enough returns, so the flow is very poor. You actually have to get up on a chair and feel about a foot 1/2 under the ducts to even feel the hot air coming out.
There is a slab and pipes for a basement furnace in the crawlspace, but until I'm sure I won't be having any flooding issues I'm not going to invest any money into that.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Where are your returns? In the floors, at the bottom of the walls, also in the ceiling? One in each room, one on each floor?
Do you have flow dampers in your ducts? Probably near your furnace, in the attic, but maybe elsewhere. Looks like an "L" lever in the side of the duct, or sometimes a "T"?
Is the ductwork in your attic bare metal, or wrapped in insulation, like a silver solar wrapping?
Have you used a thermometer to measure the temp at your heat vents, so you know what the temp is at each vent?
Do you have an air filter on the intake of the furnace, like before the air return goes into the furnace? Have you replaced it or cleaned/blown it out?
I'd bet your heat issue can be resolved for cheap, you just need to let it work. And I'm including your basement.
After you answer, I'll tell you what to try. But before I forget, the cheap options I'll talk about are at places like Restore, for instance. Plus St. Vincent's, Goodwill, Salvation Army.
Programmable thermostats do not need a new furnace, they just tell the furnace when to be on. So you can program it to be on an hour before you get home, an hour before you wake up, and mostly off the rest of the time. Unless you want it to be working mostly when the Sun is also helping, which saves the most $$. The last one I got was $14 about 8 years ago. The one I got 13 years ago was $30.
Once I tell you how to heat your house for cheap, instead of your roof shingles, you should save $$.
After you post a reply, you can start prep by measuring and writing down the temp at every single vent. You should also have at least one vent and also return which cannot be shut off, closed, etc. Identify which ones are those, if you don't already know. Also rest your thermometer on the main/central duct which comes out of the furnace, and record what that temp is when the furnace has run awhile, long enough for it to get warmed up. And if you can, rest/lean the thermometer against the duct at the attic floor, as it leaves the attic to go down through the house. You might have several of those, so any one is OK to record, or you can record 2: the one with the longest stretch of ductwork, with all twists and turns, from the furnace, and then the one with the shortest stretch of ductwork.
If you didn't know, putting all your heat into your roNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Monday, December 10, 2018 7:25 AM
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:How much water you add to that recipe? Or do you use 7-Up?
Originally posted by Brenda:
Tried those pancakes that I talked about and they are good. :)
I used water and I don't know. Wasn't measuring anything.
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