hmm i was guessing you had an oil burner since thats what seems popular with ya northerners... that or wood stoves...

 

Night Don

-The Great

 

This neighborhood is a mix of gas and electric. Most of the homes were built in the late 70s.

 

Rick, you would be amazed on how many people east of PA DONT have natural gas... like they have never heard of it!!!

-The Great

 

I would explain it to people in Vermont and they would look dumbfounded and say things like " WOW, you guys are really advanced" or things likt that. They just coudn't believe that you didn't have to get gallons of heating oil trucked into your house all the time.

-The Great

 

They also didn't understand about running cable and such underground. All of Comcast cable in Vermont is run up in the air!!! And then they wonder why it goes out all the time!!!

-The Great

 

The only way to go, its clean and efficient.

 

ahh... my grandfathers house use to have an big cast iron wood stove.. but the foundation of it cracked so he had to get rid of it.. went back to using his old oil tanks... i remember when my grandmother was still around that in the winters shed take the pans downstairs into the basement and cook on its top to save on using the electricity of the electric one.. then would carry the food all upstairs for everyone to eat...

 

Since we installed a new furnace last year we shaved 1/3rd off of our heating bill.

 

id actually prefer it to be run over ground... the problem with it being under ground is water seeps into all the connections and corrodes the hell outta them... ntm its a pain if they ever have to service those lines since they need to dig them all up to replace em.. its nice that the wind doesnt always blow them down during heavy storms.. but the heavy rain shorts them out just as much from the ground water saturating them...

 

Its already hot, make use of it.

 

When my parents installed their central air about 10 years ago, it was the same way....

-The Great

 

Of course they had one of the round dial thermostats before that... and literally a week before they installed the central air my dad put a digital thermostat in and it was working WAY more efficient.....

-The Great

 

yup... i just thought it was neat they still used it like that... but she stopped when it got hard for her to get up and down the stairs all the time..

 

So who's to say how much the new furnace saved vs the digital thermostat.... probably still quite a bit but shoulda had digital beforehand

-The Great