Posted on 01/19/2025 1:28:27 PM PST by DallasBiff
As we step into the winter months, it’s time to consider your heating options. Whether your home is warmed with electric heat or a gas furnace, you want to know your family will be comfortable when the temperature drops.
Understanding your heating options, like electrification or a hybrid system, supports a comfortable home and manageable energy bill. To help you decide the best way to heat your home, we’ll explain the differences between electric and gas heat, and give a brief introduction to the hybrid dual fuel system.
(Excerpt) Read more at hvac.com ...
and the reason they want electric is because they can crank up electric prices - our state is doign so lately- and mandadating no more gas or fuel appliances for new buildings- gosh, i wonder why - our nation will becoem just what germany has become- unbearably expensive for electric- peopel are freezing to death over there because electric prices are so high-
Nope.
I’m a late baby boomer and never saw anything except brass flex lines for propane or NG. Rubber hoses on gas would be a disaster, especially if the ankle biters were teething on it!!
Salute!
Uhhh!
I remember those slip on rubber hoses.
You can light the pilot light inside furnace with matchsticks.
By ceramic oven, do you mean a masonry heater? I’ve wanted one for a while.
Did you build, hire builders, or buy a house with it already installed?
That’s from the fifties and we had that in the sixties.
You are showing your age... (or lack thereof)
I just bought a whole house generator. I wanted one that couldn’t handle everything. I have a 2 story 2800sqft house with two HVAC units. I have gas forced air. If I had electric heat, I think it would take an incredibly large generator...
We have gas furnace, water heater with bimetal thermostat and pilot, and gas stove.
In an electrical outage we have hot water as long as the tower has water, and the stove can be lit with a match.
We also have the world’s draftiest fireplace and a wood stove that would never draw properly, so I stopped up the fireplace and removed the stove. The previous owners hired amateurs.
What? Not that kind????
Never mind.
Our house has both as well. We have a gas furnace, gas water heater, gas clothes dryer, and gas stove, but we also have electric baseboards. We have a big three-story house which had the furnace installed sometime after it was built.
The electric baseboard heaters supplement the furnace when it gets really cold to help heat parts of the house that because of design problems don't get good circulation... The electricity costs so much more than gas heat that we usually just turn the thermostat up a couple degrees and use some fans to help even things out.
We are very lucky to have natural gas here because we are in an outlying area. When the house was first built natural gas was not available and the house had a heat pump along with the baseboards. The best thing for us is that we have an unusual topography; we live near a mountain pass. The pass funnels powerful easterly winds directly to the area where we live when there is low pressure area on our side of the mountains. This causes trees and branches to fall on the power-lines, so we frequently lose power. When that happens, we use natural gas to power our generator. Natural gas costs between 1/2 and 1/3rd as much to power a generator as gasoline. It still costs more to generate your own power, in our case currently about $10 a day more. Our problem here is that the state and county are currently raising the taxes on natural gas every year to discourage people from using it. This has added around 20% to our gas bill so far.
This of course is in the name of stopping global warming... which is of course ridiculous. Ground based weather reporting stations in the United States that are located in areas outside of places with the “Urban Heat Island Effect” have shown no trend one way or the other in many years. And in fact, using natural gas to generate electricity in this country has reduced CO2 emission volumes. Study after study have shown that using natural gas for heating in homes... reduces the amount of electricity needed by the grid and generates less emissions than generating electricity and then using it for electric heating.
Gas is far cheaper.
Why should I change to propane?
Any form or gas or oil is better than electric. Of course, wood heat is by far the best.
Without any way of producing it.
Gas is better for both heat and hot water.
My house in San Diego had a gas dryer. Effective and economical. Gas heat and hot water too. I left the dryer with the house when we sold it because the house in Idaho had 220 VAC wiring.
Our big electricity consumers are Summer air conditioning and drying clothes. The big gas consumer is Winter heating.
I have a gas heater, but it needs electricity to run the fan to push the hot air through the ducts. The house where I rented a room in San Diego had wall mounted gas heaters. Those did not require electricity.
Our gas company was offering an excellent rebate when we had to replace our dryer. With the $500 rebate I netted out with an excellent dryer for a little over $200.
Your in a better spot that I am (probably?). The furnace motor doesn’t take that much, get a decent 240V generator and you can run the blower to move the heat.
Me, I’m all forced air electric. Looked at converting to heat pump but that would have been a 30 year payback that was not worth it.
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