What's everyone use as supplemental or main heat?

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Jaeger

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Was wondering what you guys use as supplemental heat in the Winter?

When we built the house oil was cheap, now we use a Harman SF360 coal boiler almost exclusively from Nov-April and it has saved us thousands in heating oils costs.

Interested in what other use? Wood stove, outdoor wood / cola boiler, etc.....
 
   / What's everyone use as supplemental or main heat? #2  
I have a wood stove in the basement and burn about 17 face cords a year. Boiler which also heats domestic hot water kicks on at night and when we are not home to load the stove. Burn about 1 tank plus or minus of fuel a year total. Also have a gas fireplace that we burn too usually burn about 75 to 100 gallons in that. So minus the sweat equity for the wood I usually heat the house and domestic hot water for 1k to 1200$ depending on prices. We also keep it cool at about 65 degrees in the winter
 
   / What's everyone use as supplemental or main heat? #3  
I'm a heating /cooling contractor. For my home it's NG.
 
   / What's everyone use as supplemental or main heat? #4  
House I just bought has a fuel oil boiler. Have copies of past 2yrs of fuel usage. Previous owners went through 1400 gallons of fuel a year!! No way in he11 I could afford that. I installed a 50k btu Pellet Stove last month.. So far so good..
 
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Wood with gas backup....backwards, but we pay about 450 a Winter with wood(2 cords), whereas gas was about 300 a MONTH!
 
   / What's everyone use as supplemental or main heat? #6  
We have ground loop geothermal as our main heat. We also have a pellet stove for back up heat. Our generator can run the pellet stove in a power outage but not the geothermal.
 
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Have electric heat pump with propane gas emergency heat . this only works if im too lazy to stoke the wood burning fireplace. I have 20 acres of trees and put up enuf wood to heat the house all winter. but there are days when i just dont feel like keeping the fireplace going.

the furnace does a splendid job...but more expensive.
 
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Propane with programmable thermostat. Keep most rooms at 68 degrees and use a propane fireplace to bring up the heat in the family room. Have wood heat in the basement in case of power outages. Ken Sweet
 
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House I just bought has a fuel oil boiler. Have copies of past 2yrs of fuel usage. Previous owners went through 1400 gallons of fuel a year!! No way in he11 I could afford that. I installed a 50k btu Pellet Stove last month.. So far so good..

What brand of pellet stove did install?
 
   / What's everyone use as supplemental or main heat? #10  
we have a squirrel chasing a nut on a treadmill powering a fan to push hot air heated by an outdoor furnace fueled by methane from the cows ! keeps the house nice and warm and we don't have to clean the chimney much ! :drink:
 
 
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