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I have our thermostat set to kick on at 6am at 68 degrees. Then it kicks down to 65 at 8pm
If my wife is working and the kids are at school I will open the app on my phone and drop it to 65 once everyone is gone. Then kick it back to 68 at 3 when the kids the getting home from school.
I do fire up the kerosene heater in the living room on really cold evenings. That warms the downstairs up to 70-72. I keep a “milk house” heater in the computer room. I’ll kick it on when I’m in there. That room is always cold, it was a porch that was converted into a room at some point..
If my wife is working and the kids are at school I will open the app on my phone and drop it to 65 once everyone is gone. Then kick it back to 68 at 3 when the kids the getting home from school.
I do fire up the kerosene heater in the living room on really cold evenings. That warms the downstairs up to 70-72. I keep a “milk house” heater in the computer room. I’ll kick it on when I’m in there. That room is always cold, it was a porch that was converted into a room at some point..
I keep a small milk house heater under the desk in my shop! My feet get cold so darn easy any more. I have been thinking about getting our old kerosene heater from the loft in the shop. Our daughter was scared of it when she was a toddler so we quit using it. I still use that bulb pump that came with it for gas and it works perfectly! It's 30 years old but probably still in good shape after a cleaning. We have one of those electric fireplaces in the living room that I like too.
DAC
The kerosene heater that I use is the same heater we had when I was a kid. My dad gave it to me 10 years ago and I use it every winter. I’d say it’s 30 some years old.
It’s a kerosun in radiant 10. I have some wicks and spare parts for it.
It’s 5.50 a gallon for kerosene but it will run 12-16 hours on a gallon. It’s a great supplement heat
All in what one gets use to. Summer a temp inside of 10°-12° F below the outside temp is plenty cool. To much temp change to fast, like going ot after being in the house for an hour is hard on the body to adjust. Opposite for the winter, we hold around the 68°F day time and 9pm to 5:30 am is 62°. Probably why we get by with on 1 propane will in the winter which usually runs us up till Dec or Jan of the next year. We wear light sweat clothes in the winter in the house and get along just fine. Cold windy nights we start the wood fireplace.
House thermostat is set at 68F. for winter and as low as it'll go in summer. The register in the bedroom is closed off and one window is always open at least an inch, even last week when the temp. outside was -44C. Love me a cold bedroom and lots of warm quilts to snuggle in.
Went to Ace Hardware this morning. They had no 18/4 thermostat wire. Had 10 feet of 18/5 so I bought that and will leave one wire unused. It will just reach where I want to try the thermostat.
Probably should change the compressor oil while the drill press is out of the way. I have a doc appt tomorrow, then have to go to Walmart and Sam's club but hopefully will be able to finish the thermostat wiring and hook up the digital one. The wire will stay exposed as I'm not going to tear out the sheetrock and have to replace it. I may want to move that thermostat yet so no sense remodeling that corner of the shop for it.
DAC
Probably should change the compressor oil while the drill press is out of the way. I have a doc appt tomorrow, then have to go to Walmart and Sam's club but hopefully will be able to finish the thermostat wiring and hook up the digital one. The wire will stay exposed as I'm not going to tear out the sheetrock and have to replace it. I may want to move that thermostat yet so no sense remodeling that corner of the shop for it.
DAC
I probably didn't sleep in a bedroom with heat in it till the early 80's.
I also remember my grandmother of long ago not having heat up stairs either and using a pee pot that would freeze....
I know....too many details....!
I’m just the opposite Daniel with being on blood thinners now I’m wearing a fleece around the house regularly now. We keep the house at 71 which is comfortable but if I go outside or stay in the shop it takes me awhile to get comfortable in the house. It’s like a bone chill I have to get rid of for a couple of hours.
Wearing sweats, fleeces or even my go to flannel shirts don't help my cold hands, feet and nose in the house. I wear socks all the time, even sleeping but I sure ain't wearing gloves---LOL! Too many years of working in South Dakota winters 8-12 hours a day took it's toll I suppose. Just can't take it anymore.
Got that thermostat working and the app on the phone today.
Had a lot of crap get in the way today but still know it will work at least!
With any luck the furnace will come down for repair tomorrow.
DAC
Got that thermostat working and the app on the phone today.
Had a lot of crap get in the way today but still know it will work at least!
With any luck the furnace will come down for repair tomorrow.
DAC
You’ll like the app for your thermostat. I use mine all the time. I always like being able to check the usage. Being that’s a gas heater it suppose it’s not as important but with my oil furnace with a 1gph nozzle I can pretty accurately guesstimate how much fuel I have in the tank.
This winter I adopted sleep plants and a plain sweat shirt when laying around the house. I’ve always been a gym shorts and t shirt person. Not sure why the change…! I think the sweat shirt thing was I came into a deal of plain gilden brand ones for 3 dollars each and I bought 15 XL ones….i gotta justify that some way.
I can’t sleep in anything more than gym shorts. Always feel like a shirt ends up bunched around me and I feel all constricted!
This winter I adopted sleep plants and a plain sweat shirt when laying around the house. I’ve always been a gym shorts and t shirt person. Not sure why the change…! I think the sweat shirt thing was I came into a deal of plain gilden brand ones for 3 dollars each and I bought 15 XL ones….i gotta justify that some way.
I can’t sleep in anything more than gym shorts. Always feel like a shirt ends up bunched around me and I feel all constricted!
I just turned it from 70 to 65 with the phone, will see if it works! Glad I tried this one in the shop before just sticking it in the house. Think I want a more modern screen as this one can be a bit hard to read. Of course the app is easy to read. It is a brand new but old thermostat.
I can't wear sweats at all. Give me the itches. Can't wear a shirt sleeping either. I manage to wear flannel pants during the winter and shorts during the summer. Still have to wear socks year round.
DAC
My legs get cold on me, so the fleece and lined pants do the trick. Have never wore "half pants", have never liked them and still don't. When it gets really cold, I slip on a pair of base layer pants and tops if I am going to be out in it for a while, like snow moving etc. Nothing cotton touching the skin in cold weather. Cotton makes you cold as it absorbs moisture and that is the last thing you want in the cold is to be damp or wet. True base layer is made of naylon and spandex.
"Too much information" would apply if I told you what I (don't) wear to bed, , but when lazing in front of the T.V. in the evening in winter I'm generally covered with a quilt and four cats. The flannel lined jeans are brought out as soon as the snow flies and I switch back to regular jeans when the snow is gone in spring. Like DAC I don't enjoy sweats and I'll never buy another pair of jeans lined with that fleece junk. They bind and twist up and the fleece sags down below the leg hems after a few washings.
, but when lazing in front of the T.V. in the evening in winter I'm generally covered with a quilt and four cats. The flannel lined jeans are brought out as soon as the snow flies and I switch back to regular jeans when the snow is gone in spring. Like DAC I don't enjoy sweats and I'll never buy another pair of jeans lined with that fleece junk. They bind and twist up and the fleece sags down below the leg hems after a few washings.
Now you are talking about outside, Rog! My chicken legs NEVER see the light of day anymore---LOL!
The last time I wore lined jeans was probably around 1980. When something would bring me inside they were too hot. That is why I started leaning towards bibs. Sometimes insulated Carhartt's, but usually single layer Key's. Easy to take off and still feel "normal". Never have had anything fleece.
I was on track to have the furnace done in one day, but of course something had to throw a wrench into things. When I called about the warranty and they said the heat exchanger was covered and would be shipped, I specifically asked the stoner I was talking to about needed gaskets and insulation to do the replacement. He told me "You won't need any". Bull$h!t! I should have trusted my gut and not what the invisible singer was saying and insisted on the insulation, gasket set to be included.
Called them back this afternoon and they at least had only a couple minute wait to talk to someone who wasn't singing and humming while typing. He said they will get here within a couple days, coming from Cleveland, OH. The heat exchanger only took 3 "working days".
Dead in the water. At least the spring like weather is supposed to continue. Still well below freezing at night unfortunately. Hopefully it will get here by Saturday at the latest.
Some pics.
Got the chimney, gas line, power and thermostat disconnected and slid it into position to put it on the cherry picker contraption.
Had a small setback as at one point the cherry picker stopped going up. Thought dang will I have to pull the cylinder to add oil? Bleeder was tight. Lowered back down and pulled the stupid rubber plug before I did anything else. Of course, oil started pouring out and the plug was a pain to get back in. Figured the cylinder had to come off to lay flat and add oil. What the heck I tried jacking it up again and it went up just fine even losing some oil. Hung my fat @$$ off of it and it held. Time to just do it. Slid the furnace onto the lift and it held too!
Decided why slide it off onto a table when it could stay on this platform to work on it.
The stoner I talked to the first time said to remove all the components from the side and pull the heat exchanger out that direction. Nope I thought there was an easier way. Took the front stuff off and just disconnected the components from the face of the heat exchanger. I did have to unhook two wires from the gas valve but took pics as to where they go. Then the last hurdle on removal was two ground wires screwed into the face of the heat exchanger with a tiny combination slot phillips screw. It stripped immediately so I cut the damm wires. Crimped them into a single connector. The case it gutted.
Had to drill one hole for the pressure valve and plug one with a screw that didn't match the old one. Replaced those phillips, slot screws with 5/16" head sheetmetal screws.
Far as I got until get the rest of the stuff! Probably could have run around town and found materials to buy for the installation, but I'm too cheap and think the Mr. Heater company should pay for it anyway---LOL! Good thing in a way, as I'm tired!
DAC
Duluth trading Co has them in the standard relaxed fit. Most have the elastic waist as well as belt loops. I have one pair of the heavy duck material for real cold weather that the wind does not go through. Yes, they are higher priced but a lot better quality that Wally World. I have bought my underwear from them for several years. Very comfortable and they last. No lost shape after the second wash.
Thanks for the tip. I’ll look into them. I’m good with the higher price if the quality is better.
Spent some time with our son today, then got out to the shop. I could do some work out in the lift bay with a jacket on, so I got on a ladder and brought down the old filthy kerosene heater. It was in the loft but right above the air compressor. Was able to scoot it over and slide it into the furnace shelf then bring it down on my head---LOL! I turned the wick up and it was wet and smelled like kerosene. The tank that is pulled out to fill is empty. I didn't try to fire it. Gotta do a major cleaning. One would think I would have put a bag over it but nope! I got real lucky, the "D" batteries were still in it and hadn't leaked. We quit using that thing in the mid 1990's. The crazy part is that the "Best if used by" batteries expired in 2007. Just for laughs I stuck them in the meter and they still showed good! Will change them anyway.
It is a "Comfort Glow" brand, made in Japan rather than China.
Went out to one of the sheds and got the kerosene cans. Still one more around here somewhere, but I'm only gonna fill one. I used that siphon pump that came with this heater just a couple months ago when I drained the fuel tank on the generator. Figured it was time to use that gas before it went bad.
I found the wick online, but it was 2 minimum 16 bucks shipped.
I have to run a couple errands in town tomorrow so probably will fill a can at Fleet Farm. Have no clue what it will cost. Will clean it up and try to light it with the old wick since it seems to soak up fuel still. Maybe tomorrow. I might need some heat to put the furnace back together when the insulation and gaskets get here.
DAC
It is a "Comfort Glow" brand, made in Japan rather than China.
Went out to one of the sheds and got the kerosene cans. Still one more around here somewhere, but I'm only gonna fill one. I used that siphon pump that came with this heater just a couple months ago when I drained the fuel tank on the generator. Figured it was time to use that gas before it went bad.
I found the wick online, but it was 2 minimum 16 bucks shipped.
I have to run a couple errands in town tomorrow so probably will fill a can at Fleet Farm. Have no clue what it will cost. Will clean it up and try to light it with the old wick since it seems to soak up fuel still. Maybe tomorrow. I might need some heat to put the furnace back together when the insulation and gaskets get here.
DAC