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What is your home primary heat source?

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I have two natural gas furnaces and two ventless natural gas heaters in the basement, one in the storage area one in my gun room, I have free natural gas in my home. I also have a wood burning stove in the great room, several propane heaters if needed and even a few electric spot heaters as back up to the back ups. The whole house generator can be ran on natural gas or propane, I keep the 500 gallon propane tank full just in case.

How do you heat your home and are you prepared for extended power outages?

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  • fatcat458

    Heat pump primary w/strips. A set of gas logs in the den fireplace as backup. Wife wants me to take the gas logs out so we can burn WOOD again. Maybe 15yrs back when l was younger and still had a pickup. Nearing my Diamond Jubilee (75yrs) l just cant get all ''fuzzy'' about cutting wood again. We lost electricity here in Augusta for 3days back in 2015 due to an ice storm. l was happy those gas logs ran themselves.🤗 Lots of folks suffered around here those few days. Many were reminded very QUICKLY their gas furnaces wont run without Ga Pwr electricity😵

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  • mohawk600

    Small ceramic space heater in an efficiency apartment. If power goes out, I can use candles for heat.

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  • pickenup

    All electric. Generator in the basement, just in case. Propane heaters in case of emergency.

    Power has never been out long enough to cause a serious problem.

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  • trawler

    In Alaska.

    2 Toyo oil heaters

    Oil fired whole house boiler/furnace

    wood stove

    2 Big Buddy LP gas Heaters

    3 electric space heaters


    Usually 1 Toyo stove Model 730 does it all.

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  • SW0320

    Primary is propane gas high efficiency hot air furnace. We use it only when temps are above freezing to take chill out of the house.

    Otherwise we use Harmon whole house wood furnace. It is ducted into the hot air ducts Just open bypass and it feds into duct work.

    We are using that even a little less since we put a Pacific Energy insert into our living room fireplace. That thing burns forever. Put in three logs last night about 2am and the draft fan is still blowing at 7:30 am.

    We are using about 4 cords of wood a year.

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