Originally Posted by brucat
Originally Posted by mbounds

I'm on the warpath to cut down my heating bills (December gas bill was ~$350).

Get yourself a wood-burning stove or at least a fireplace insert. I have the latter, and unless it gets below 10 degrees outside, the furnace never comes on when I have the wood going. Even when it is that cold, the furnace runs much less often than it does without the wood going.

Also helps that I get free wood from the in-laws (just have to cut, haul and split it), but it's good exercise (and we all know I could use some more of that to help my boatspeed)...

Mike


Not going to work in this house (4,125 sq. ft, including the semi-finished basement). We have two furnaces - one in the basement and one in the attic. Both are +90 efficiency. Basement furnace takes the brunt of the load, since the warm air rises up to the second floor via the "grand entrance" foyer (14 ft ceiling). Yesterday, it ran 10 hrs 50 min when it was ~21°F outside.