On 03/12/2011 4:57 PM, Curt Raymond wrote:
I have neither of those...
We have hot water baseboard, I actually prefer my parent's setup, they have
nice big cast iron baseboard heaters, they heat up nicely and hold heat well
radiating it over time. The only thing I like better is radiant floor heat...
Scorched air has such a spread, gets the house all hot and scorched smelling,
then waits until its cold and has to bring it back up. A good steam radiator
system (my wife's grandparent's house is the nicest steam system I've ever
seen) is way better...
BTW Randy, you tell us how COLD it is in Winnipeg and then worry about having
AC? You only use it for like 2 hours a year right? ;)
Seriously we only need AC maybe 2-3 weeks a year, a window unit is plenty adequate, I
can't see my ever paying for central air. Then you have to pay to maintain it, clean the
ducts, clean the condenser/evaporator etc. We've got a "window" unit mounted in
the wall. This time of year I spend 1 hour putting a tarp on the outside and a quilted
cover over the inside and 1.5 hour in the spring removing the covers and vacuuming
everything and for our house it works great.
Of course as we've discussed several times in the past my wife' and I are
pretty tolerant of temperature...
-Curt
We only get the scorched air smell when we first fire up in the fall
after the heat has been sitting off for months. Then it burns off a bit
of dust in the first few minutes. After that, no scorch!
Actually, we are an area of extremes. Winter is cold and summer is often
hot. We ran the AC a lot last summer.
The heat is also one of the reasons that I did not run my car much last
summer. My AC is no longer working. I think the valves in the compressor
must have given up as it has a charge but the high and low sides are
about even meaning I assume that it is not compressing.
Anyone have an opinion on the pros and cons of doing the swap to the
more modern sytle compressor? I see ads for a conversion with the
bracket to mount the round GM style unit in place of the old piston
style pump.
Randy
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