Ahhhh...The Warmth & Feel of Wood Heat

[Bigsby]

I see a movie script in this somewhere.

I can already see the title: "16 Degrees of Seperation."

 

[BrotherBart]

I can already see the title: "16 Degrees of Seperation."

Or "Secondary Burned".

 

[Bigsby]

Or "Secondary Burned".

Starring Woody Splitter and Ashley Pan.

 

[begreen]

In the Heat of the Night

 

[HisTreeNut]

Theme song for the show...

"Burning Love" by Elvis Presley

 

[Calentarse]

My wife is fussy at anything below 70. Gotta have the fan in the hall too because if it's anything below 67 in the bedroom she is fussing. I'm more of a 67-69 kind of guy...

 

[missedbass]

The body is a radiator and radiates heat to colder objects. Air temperature has less of an effect on comfort than being near a warm object. Dan Holohan in his book Pumping Away describes how this phenomenon works and feels. Go to your local supermarket with a thermometer. Walk down the cereal aisle feel the comfort and check the temp. Then walk down the freezer aisle. Check the temp. It's the same. But you feel colder. Because your body is radiating heat toward a cold object. Heat goes to cold, the colder object temp is sucking the heat out of you.

I went to one of Dan's seminars and he mentioned walking down the supermarket aisle and talking about it being a "cold 70". He is quite the expert in all types of heating and his web site "heatinghelp.com" is very informative.

 

[LowbanksArcher]

Heating the air to heat you is not efficient because air is an insulator, not a conductor. The most effective way to insulate a home heated with radiant heat is to make it air tight and reflect the heat back in. You cannot reflect warm air at all, so this does almost nothing in a home heated with forced air. A reflective barrier in a home heated with wood will do wonders.

I insulated my ice house with reflectix bubble insulation and can keep it above 70 with a single lantern on low along with my body heat becuase all the heat gets reflected back in and concentrated.

I hope this helps.

"Yes...they'rrrre back...the snake foil faux insulation folks are at it again - see the latest pitch from the S & M (smoke and mirrors) crowd in our favourite series on "marketing masquerading as science"
"When it comes to foil faced insulation and reflective paints - beware of the wolves in sheep's clothing."

(broken link removed to http://www.healthyheating.com/Page%2055/Page_55_o_bldg_sys.htm#.Vsr53-ZQTgA)

 

[CheapBassTurd]

Even when running all afternoon and evening at 80 degrees spooning up to a 40 degree backside
doesn't seem possible but she found a way to keep it cold. LOL Wimmin' just don't have the
blood circulation we do?????

Also, to keep our lips from splitting into fragments we keep a teapot steaming 24/7, minus that
stoopid whistle cap. The indoor humidty runs about 40% thus far in our 4 weeks of "stoving".
The last elec/ heating bill had both heating systems included. This next bill will be our first on wood
only. Looking forward to seeing some off season numbers to pay out insteadda that 5-600 USD pricetag
to be warm.

 

[Isaac Carlson]

Say what you want about it. Numbers don't mean squat to me when I can freeze my butt off in 30 degree temps with no insulation and be 80 and toasty in -20. It works and that is all I have to say about it. It is a reflective barrier and I am using it as such.