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November 27, 2010 at 9:50 AM #634607November 27, 2010 at 11:59 AM #633514
UCGal
Participant[quote=paramount][quote=UCGal]We finally turned on our heater for the season a few days ago. Sweaters and slippers weren’t cutting it.[/quote]
Let me guess: you live in a McMansion?
McMansions are usually hot in the summer and cold in the winter in my experience.[/quote]
Only if a 45 year old 2000sf house is a McMansion.We’ve been adding insulation whenever we open up a wall to do anything else. And the attic has good insulation. But we still have older windows (on the budgeted to-do list).
We don’t have AC – University City is close enough to the coast to get the moderate temps.
If this is a McMansion, I want nicer kitchens/bathrooms. Nope – this house would be dubbed functionally obscolescent by Brian and deemed a tear down by others. But it works for us.
November 27, 2010 at 11:59 AM #633592Participant[quote=paramount][quote=UCGal]We finally turned on our heater for the season a few days ago. Sweaters and slippers weren’t cutting it.[/quote]
Let me guess: you live in a McMansion?
McMansions are usually hot in the summer and cold in the winter in my experience.[/quote]
Only if a 45 year old 2000sf house is a McMansion.We’ve been adding insulation whenever we open up a wall to do anything else. And the attic has good insulation. But we still have older windows (on the budgeted to-do list).
We don’t have AC – University City is close enough to the coast to get the moderate temps.
If this is a McMansion, I want nicer kitchens/bathrooms. Nope – this house would be dubbed functionally obscolescent by Brian and deemed a tear down by others. But it works for us.
November 27, 2010 at 11:59 AM #634168Participant[quote=paramount][quote=UCGal]We finally turned on our heater for the season a few days ago. Sweaters and slippers weren’t cutting it.[/quote]
Let me guess: you live in a McMansion?
McMansions are usually hot in the summer and cold in the winter in my experience.[/quote]
Only if a 45 year old 2000sf house is a McMansion.We’ve been adding insulation whenever we open up a wall to do anything else. And the attic has good insulation. But we still have older windows (on the budgeted to-do list).
We don’t have AC – University City is close enough to the coast to get the moderate temps.
If this is a McMansion, I want nicer kitchens/bathrooms. Nope – this house would be dubbed functionally obscolescent by Brian and deemed a tear down by others. But it works for us.
November 27, 2010 at 11:59 AM #634296Participant[quote=paramount][quote=UCGal]We finally turned on our heater for the season a few days ago. Sweaters and slippers weren’t cutting it.[/quote]
Let me guess: you live in a McMansion?
McMansions are usually hot in the summer and cold in the winter in my experience.[/quote]
Only if a 45 year old 2000sf house is a McMansion.We’ve been adding insulation whenever we open up a wall to do anything else. And the attic has good insulation. But we still have older windows (on the budgeted to-do list).
We don’t have AC – University City is close enough to the coast to get the moderate temps.
If this is a McMansion, I want nicer kitchens/bathrooms. Nope – this house would be dubbed functionally obscolescent by Brian and deemed a tear down by others. But it works for us.
November 27, 2010 at 11:59 AM #634617Participant[quote=paramount][quote=UCGal]We finally turned on our heater for the season a few days ago. Sweaters and slippers weren’t cutting it.[/quote]
Let me guess: you live in a McMansion?
McMansions are usually hot in the summer and cold in the winter in my experience.[/quote]
Only if a 45 year old 2000sf house is a McMansion.We’ve been adding insulation whenever we open up a wall to do anything else. And the attic has good insulation. But we still have older windows (on the budgeted to-do list).
We don’t have AC – University City is close enough to the coast to get the moderate temps.
If this is a McMansion, I want nicer kitchens/bathrooms. Nope – this house would be dubbed functionally obscolescent by Brian and deemed a tear down by others. But it works for us.
November 27, 2010 at 12:12 PM #633519bearishgurl
ParticipantLol, I am turning into a “toolbelt diva.” :=]
I just installed a newfangled digital thermostat this morning which has 4 scheduling times, 7 days a week to program (28 stns)!
I am in hopes that I can run short spurts of heat just during the times I need it to warm up the house and then turn itself off.
Heat (w/constant human intervention or human forgetfulness) cost me a fortune with my old thermostat.
Next on my agenda is replacing my back door into something more airtight. It is “pretty” but thin and leaking cold air. My windows have all been replaced and I have thick insulation all around :=)
November 27, 2010 at 12:12 PM #633597ParticipantLol, I am turning into a “toolbelt diva.” :=]
I just installed a newfangled digital thermostat this morning which has 4 scheduling times, 7 days a week to program (28 stns)!
I am in hopes that I can run short spurts of heat just during the times I need it to warm up the house and then turn itself off.
Heat (w/constant human intervention or human forgetfulness) cost me a fortune with my old thermostat.
Next on my agenda is replacing my back door into something more airtight. It is “pretty” but thin and leaking cold air. My windows have all been replaced and I have thick insulation all around :=)
November 27, 2010 at 12:12 PM #634173ParticipantLol, I am turning into a “toolbelt diva.” :=]
I just installed a newfangled digital thermostat this morning which has 4 scheduling times, 7 days a week to program (28 stns)!
I am in hopes that I can run short spurts of heat just during the times I need it to warm up the house and then turn itself off.
Heat (w/constant human intervention or human forgetfulness) cost me a fortune with my old thermostat.
Next on my agenda is replacing my back door into something more airtight. It is “pretty” but thin and leaking cold air. My windows have all been replaced and I have thick insulation all around :=)
November 27, 2010 at 12:12 PM #634301ParticipantLol, I am turning into a “toolbelt diva.” :=]
I just installed a newfangled digital thermostat this morning which has 4 scheduling times, 7 days a week to program (28 stns)!
I am in hopes that I can run short spurts of heat just during the times I need it to warm up the house and then turn itself off.
Heat (w/constant human intervention or human forgetfulness) cost me a fortune with my old thermostat.
Next on my agenda is replacing my back door into something more airtight. It is “pretty” but thin and leaking cold air. My windows have all been replaced and I have thick insulation all around :=)
November 27, 2010 at 12:12 PM #634622ParticipantLol, I am turning into a “toolbelt diva.” :=]
I just installed a newfangled digital thermostat this morning which has 4 scheduling times, 7 days a week to program (28 stns)!
I am in hopes that I can run short spurts of heat just during the times I need it to warm up the house and then turn itself off.
Heat (w/constant human intervention or human forgetfulness) cost me a fortune with my old thermostat.
Next on my agenda is replacing my back door into something more airtight. It is “pretty” but thin and leaking cold air. My windows have all been replaced and I have thick insulation all around :=)
November 27, 2010 at 1:53 PM #633529ParticipantLOL – BG… that was the first thing I did when I bought my old (circa 1910) twin house in Glenside, PA… I forgot to turn the heater off when I left for work a few times and was astonished at how fast the oil went. (Oil burner furnace.)
That $50 setback thermostat saved me a few hundred dollars in heating oil each season!
November 27, 2010 at 1:53 PM #633607ParticipantLOL – BG… that was the first thing I did when I bought my old (circa 1910) twin house in Glenside, PA… I forgot to turn the heater off when I left for work a few times and was astonished at how fast the oil went. (Oil burner furnace.)
That $50 setback thermostat saved me a few hundred dollars in heating oil each season!
November 27, 2010 at 1:53 PM #634183ParticipantLOL – BG… that was the first thing I did when I bought my old (circa 1910) twin house in Glenside, PA… I forgot to turn the heater off when I left for work a few times and was astonished at how fast the oil went. (Oil burner furnace.)
That $50 setback thermostat saved me a few hundred dollars in heating oil each season!
November 27, 2010 at 1:53 PM #634312ParticipantLOL – BG… that was the first thing I did when I bought my old (circa 1910) twin house in Glenside, PA… I forgot to turn the heater off when I left for work a few times and was astonished at how fast the oil went. (Oil burner furnace.)
That $50 setback thermostat saved me a few hundred dollars in heating oil each season!
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