In my area the choice is electric or propane. Prepaying for propane at summer rates, propane gives a few less BTUs per dollar. I plan to use mostly heating with electricity with propane helping on the colder days. At least I won't have to leave town for a week like I had to do a few years ago when the power was down.
Tony -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Sexton Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 2:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electric heaters is it cheaper to use an electric heater to heat a room or use the central air? I'm not usually in the rest of my house, but it seems like a space heater would cost more constantly running. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lenny McHugh To: Handyman-Blind Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 2:01 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] electric heaters I just talked to a friend of mine who purchased a very unique electric heater. It is quartz and hot air. Since quartz radiant heat typically only heats the objects in front this heater was designed to do both. In front of the three quartz tubes are copper tubes. Since the quartz will heat the copper a small fan forces air through the copper heating the room. He purchased this unit last year for about $400. He just purchased a device from harbor freight that shows the kw of an appliance. You plug this thing in and then he plugged the heater into it. It shows actual usage. Using this he was able to calculate that it is costing him about $55 a month to heat his living, dining and kitchen. At night he turns the unit off and uses his oil heating system.At the current price of heating oil at nearly $3 he should recover his investment in a few weeks. Lenny http://www.geocities.com/lenny_mchugh/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ If you would like to join the Blind Computing list, then visit the following address for more information: http://jaws-users.com/mailman/listinfo/blind-computing_jaws-users.com For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links
