This is a discussion on The warmest spot in my house.. within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; ...is just outside the windows. One hundred year old house leaks heat everywhere. I will probably have a 4-digit gas bill this month. I could ...
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...is just outside the windows.One hundred year old house leaks heat everywhere. I will probably have a 4-digit gas bill this month. I could probably sleep with a car engine running in the bedroom and never suffocate.
I hope I slip on some ice so I could go to the hospital and get warm
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Wake me when it's summer.
Going to the hospital won't work, they'll have the A/C on and you will get colder.
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HA!Originally Posted by jhh3rd
...is just outside the windows.
Wake me when it's summer.
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Thats why us rednecks tape plastic to the window trim....is just outside the windows.
Wake me when it's summer.
If I gave a crap about what you think about my guns.....it was early this morning and I already flushed it!
Go get some 3M window film (apply from the inside with a hair dryer) Then some foam tape for the doors. Easy to remove, works great....is just outside the windows.
Wake me when it's summer.
I have two wood burning fireplaces but seldom use them except when guests visit. Best just to seal up the house. Use small ceramic heaters while you are in a room. Turn off when you leave.
If you understand, things are just as they are... If you do not understand, things are just as they are....
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Clearly you just don't have enough dogs in the bed with you :)
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4 digits... $99.99! That is not so bad. :)
I just got used to being cold and dress appropriately. It is 20 out at the moment and my heat hasn't been on all season. I live in a leaky old apartment (from 1909!) and there are people on 3 sides. It never really gets below 50 inside. Even my significant other puts up with it. :)
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Hang blankets in front of doors and windows, it will stop a lot of the drafts.
Can't beat hillbill insulation. If you have enough blankets you can hang them all along the inside of the outside walls sort of like Tapestrys of castles.
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Since when did VA join the side of the carpetbaggers and invaders from the North?HA!
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My house is the exact opposite. Instead of letting the warm air out of the windows, it lets the cold air in. Weird!
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When It warms up around here. I usually have to repair my nephew's truck. I do some touch ups to the bumpers mainly. Around here, one inch of snow means he is usually going to hit something.
I use aluminum paint. It works pretty good on his beater. We call it Arkansas chrome.
If you understand, things are just as they are... If you do not understand, things are just as they are....
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My heat pump has run non stop since about a week before X-mas. My meter outside looks like a CD spinning.
I'm too scared to open my electric bill this month.
Don't believe what you hear and only half of what you see!
-Tony Soprano
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I bought my house from the bankruptcy court; the previous occupant had neglected it for 25 years so I had to redo many things. I put in the highest energy rated windows I could find, 1" spacing between panes & argon filled and I sprayed that expanding foam between the opening and window frame.
The original siding was redwood that he hadn't taken care of and was dried out so I resided; the outside walls are plywood, felt paper, redwood, tyvac, 3/8" blue accordion fold Styrofoam leveling board then the vinal siding has ~1" thick Styrofoam glued to the back for rigidity and additional insulation. The walls/windows don't leak air.
The area inside the house was the maximum for the heat pump that was originally proposed, so I went the next size up, highest energy efficiency rated unit I could find and added a variable speed scroll compressor and variable speed blower. The heat pump runs most of the time when it gets cold but at a low speed, temp in the house usually doesn't vary more than 2 degrees.
The wife says even with 0 degree temps and wind she is staying comfortable.
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And we the tax payers are going to have to pay the electic bill for the AC!!
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I knew it was time to turn the furnace on one year when I got up and the water in the toilet was frozen.Brrrr
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