Posted on 01/26/2011 6:51:40 PM PST by Little Bill
I recieved a Propane delivery today at $4.04 a gallon. Luckily I am a Paraniod FReeper so the hit was $222 for 55 gallons
Before I took precautions I used about 800 gallons a year, Heating and Cooking, this price is insane.
Anyother horror stories out there.
I have found that most propane suppliers are happy to deal with me in the off season. My tank lasts almost a year.206 is the higest I have paid in the last 2 years. Most people here are paying over 3.00.
consider the Russian chimney.
http://www.grannysstore.com/Do-It-Yourself/masonry_stoves.htm
I have lived in a house with one of these. Once the mansory gets warmed up, it uses very little fuel, and the house bakes for the whole winter. Need to build the house around the chimney, but the whole house was toasty warm on even the coldest of days. On days that were warmer than the seasonal you would have to open the windows to cool the house down.
Yeah, watch out for bugs in heaters.
Few years ago, my furnace wouldn’t start up in the fall, and I eventually found the problem...
Some damn bug got in the main gas pipe going to the burner, and built a nest there. It wasn’t completely plugged, but it created enough back pressure that the gas valve refused to stay open (safety feature).
So do you both think that it is worth it to get rid of a perfectly good hot water heater in order to install the on demand system or would it be more cost effective to wait until the one I have dies? BTW, I am in Louisiana so no
-17 degree weather here....at least not until ALgore shows up!
My son in Mass, $310 for a 100 gallons.
I wish!
We’re a pretty large user with 3 structures including our home heated with propane. We’re @ $2.50 where most are paying $4 about now.
1,0000-gal, 500-gal & a 600-gal manifold system. We use a lot of propane. We’ve told our supplier we want their best price or they can come get their tanks. You don’t have any more leverage if you own tanks the way they price their tank inspection fees.
You must be in the Spokane area, or Idaho. I used to live in Central Washington. That is a lot closer to your weather, but not quite the highs or lows. More like 0 to 105.
Where do you live?
My dad live in a old farmhouse in Central WA for a couple of decades...single pane windows and no insulation...his worst year was 1/2 that.
No, at the edge of the Hanford Reservation.
While we were at -17, further north in eastern Washington was in the mid -20s.
I have to correct our all time high...+117F. Neat, -17 to +117.
No, I wouldn’t get rid of it.
One thing you might consider doing, though, is installing a small point-of-use on-demand water heater. I have one of those also, under a sink. It is electric whereas the big one is propane fueled.
You should see some of the mega-mansions in the foothills around Ellensburg these days. Vacation homes for Microsoft and Amazon execs, some retire there. Some have mega dollar wind and solar plants on the lots.
I have been considering an on demand water heater. I have a new house and I am sure the water heater will be good for years but the on demand system seems much more efficient.
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The tankless/”on demand” heaters all need good water flow to work ,, you can’t have just a trickle ... you often have to run your shower full hot ,, if you turn it down you abruptly get COLD not warm...
Our Lions club is on the fast fill list and we used over 440. in three weeks with only one event. Everything checks out so no leaks, theft just an old uninsulated building that warms the winds as they blow through.
We have no problem turning ours down to a reasonable flow. The flame doesn’t go out until the flow is lower than you’d want for a shower! An actual trickle won’t light the flame, of course, and you wouldn’t want it to. Our heater is an Aquastar.
I don’t want a pellet or corn stove because I don’t want to be dependent on anyone else for the stuff I am going to burn. With a pellet stove, or even coal or propane I would have to get in the car and go get the fuel, or have a delivery made and pay for it. With a woodstove I can go out in the woods and find what I need. In a SHTF scenario I want to be able to take care of myself as much as possible.
In good old Nebraska. The other morning we had -16 degrees, and that’s not wind chill! We’ve had alot of snow this winter, a couple of weeks ago we got a foot and last weekend we got another 9 or 10 inches. We still have another 6 weeks of hard winter left!
Most of the folks up here do the same.
You see them hauling their propane tanks mounted on trailers heading over to the Spirit Fuel station on Wednesdays as they knock ten cents off per gallon.
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