Warm up your house hacks...

[10thmountain]

Warm up your house hacks...

2 years ago my heat went out in my downstairs furnace. Upstairs was fine. No one froze.

I did the following for a couple of days.

Turned on my oven and cracked the door ( electric)

Cooked a lot on my gas range top

Turned on my electric heaters strategically

What have you done to stay warm if your heat goes out?

 

[Treehawk]

gas logs and kerosene heater

 

[10thmountain]

Forgot about Kerosene heaters! Those work great.

 

[Gunanddoglover]

If the downstairs furnace goes out, I turn on the oven, use the fireplace and electric heaters. I have an electric oil filled radiant heater that will keep the downstairs toasty warm. If upstairs goes out it just me and the dogs so, I'll use an electric heater in my bedroom the rest of the upstairs doesn't have to be heated. I already use the electric heater in my bedroom and keep the upstairs thermostat at 62 to keep the gas bill low.

 

[November Sierra]

A quick tip for anyone that can't get their house heated: Start a fire on the living room floor.

 

[jrocg0102]

Been using a little buddy propane and a little electric space heater. Just moving them around where needed. Actually working really well as a supplement.

 

[ParaSloth]

Upstairs furnace currently out! We’re also using a Little Buddy propane heater and a couple small electric heaters in the rooms. Working great!

 

[41mag]

Warm up your house hacks...

2 years ago my heat went out in my downstairs furnace. Upstairs was fine. No one froze.

I did the following for a couple of days.

Turned on my oven and cracked the door ( electric)

Cooked a lot on my gas range top

Turned on my electric heaters strategically

What have you done to stay warm if your heat goes out?

Firewood

 

[kuduman]

Slightly off topic, but wouldn't it be nice to have a couple of hundred watts of heat that followed you around the house, so you could turn down the thermostat overall, and only heat the rooms people are in, and when they're actually in them?

Naw.

 

[10thmountain]

Upstairs furnace currently out! We’re also using a Little Buddy propane heater and a couple small electric heaters in the rooms. Working great!

I like those Buddy heaters.