Posts Tagged ‘winter’
I just turned on my gas wall heater for the 1st time this winter and its smells. Will this smell go away?
Question by chris w: I just turned on my gas wall heater for the 1st time this winter and its smells. Will this smell go away?
Or is the smell normal for these type of heaters?
Best answer:
Answer by thetank
yes, it will its just getting warmed up again. i have the same problem at my home as well.
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I just turned on my gas wall heater for the 1st time this winter and its smells. Will this smell go away?
Question by chris w: I just turned on my gas wall heater for the 1st time this winter and its smells. Will this smell go away?
Or is the smell normal for these type of heaters?
Best answer:
Answer by thetank
yes, it will its just getting warmed up again. i have the same problem at my home as well.
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Would it be cheaper to use electric baseboard heat or portable heaters to heat a studio in the winter?
Question by Anna: Would it be cheaper to use electric baseboard heat or portable heaters to heat a studio in the winter?
I will be living in a third floor studio (about 400 sq. feet) in Chicago. The management has recently installed electric baseboard heat, therefore I was not able to get price quotes, before signing the lease. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with electric baseboard heat and how much it costs during the winter months? What would be a cheaper alternative? I signed a lease for a year – so I would not be able to make any major changes. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Best answer:
Answer by Steven J
Kerosene heaters, propane heaters, or prefeerably natural gas heaters. Just have a vent for the exhaust.
Electric baseboard heaters are energy inefficent.
Electric is the most expensive source of energy.
And baseboard heating is even worse.
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Staying Warm This Winter: What’s the Right Approach – a Crawl Space Heater or Proper Insulation?
Staying Warm This Winter: What’s the Right Approach – a Crawl Space Heater or Proper Insulation?
We’ve had some very frigid days in the northeastern US and Canada the last few weeks. Those of us who have a crawl space underneath part of our home have felt plenty of chilly floors underfoot and cold air on our ankles.
You may think that putting a heater in your crawl space will leave you with warmer feet. But in fact sealing and insulating your crawl space will not only address your indoor discomfort with cold, drafty floors, it will also avoid problems such as mold and rot in the crawl space itself, and will improve the health of your home overall.
For starters, let’s clear up a common mistake about the air flows in a crawl space. For many years, homeowners, homebuilders, and building inspectors have believed that a crawl space needs exterior venting on opposite walls, so that air can flow from one vent to the other, drawing out any extra dampness from the enclosed space. But the most recent studies show that ventilating a crawl space creates a very
Heating and Cooling Your Home This Winter – The Essentials
Heating and Cooling Your Home This Winter – The Essentials
You are more likely to buy just a new furnace than install a complete new heating system or systems. In choosing a new furnace , this cold winter, or converting from one type to another you must first determine what type of unit is best for your house , and what type of energy is most economical for your part and region of the country
Even if you had Eddy Dixon at your side , a most experienced heating engineer from the old school , who would insist that a Lennox Pulse Furnace was the only way to go , it would be most likely that what would be the eventual installation in your new address or haunt would be what the construction firm had on hand. What the contractor decides , or gets a deal from the heating equipment wholesale , is usually what will be installed in your new home or condo. The benefit of buying a new home , rather than an older used property is that the heating equipment installed will be new , reliable and should often be the latest models – that
Q&A: what will be the most effeicient way to heat my apartment this winter?
Question by junebug: what will be the most effeicient way to heat my apartment this winter?
should i use the gas, electric baseboards or would it be the best to get one of those electric space heaters or heat dishes? what is the cheapest?
Best answer:
Answer by Amanda
Space heater
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Homeowners ? Beat the Winter Heating Blues With Solar Hot Water
Homeowners ? Beat the Winter Heating Blues With Solar Hot Water
There is no doubt that heating costs are a tremendous burden on the cost of living in today’s cash-strapped economy. As more and more Americans face an increasing credit crunch, the costs associated with our very survival are becoming more and more unbearable, and our incomes are not increasing at a rate fast enough to meet the demands on our money.
One of the biggest expenditures for Americans is the cost of heating water and their homes. Whether you rent a home or apartment, or own your own, home and water heating costs can account for 40% of our monthly and annual bills – sometimes even more in the winter months. This percentage could also grow even higher as oil prices continue to reach all-time highs. In fact, recently the price of crude oil hit 0 a barrel, driving the prices of fuel oil, natural gas and other heating fuels higher overnight.
If your heating costs have you in an increasingly tight financial situation
Radiant Floor heating for a warm winter
Radiant Floor heating for a warm winter
If you are worried about daring the cold chilly winters, then Radiant floor heating is just the right solution for you. Whether it is Under floor heating or above floor, this can help you warm almost any floor covering. They work great in new construction or remodeling and in projects of any size.
Over the years, technology has made it possible to make new improvisations on Radiant floor heating and hence, accordingly with time, this form of heating has taken over all the other traditional method of heating like baseboard heating, forced-air heating etc. One of the many advantages of radiant floor heating is that you can get maximum results with very minimal or no loss of energy- a very important scoring point in terms of a cleaner environment. Apart from this, the fact that no air is lost through the ducts is a great relief for people with heat allergies.
The other worth mentioning advantage