Thats what we have been doing but now i have a programable thermostat and propane is 1.30 per gal so i will use it.Ghettontheball said:
Bringing heat into the bedroom
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macman said:
I think it is all what you get used to. I'm pretty warm at 65 degrees. I have friends that keep their home at 70 all year round. When I go there in the winter I have to make sure my undershirt is in good shape because that is what I end up in. I like to sleep between 50 to 60 degrees. To each there own. 74 im my living room is borderline to warm even for just a place to warm up on those rare occasions that I get cold. As I mentioned the house rarely gets below 60 degrees. We often have a window cracked in the bedroom during the winter. Try it you might like it.
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Clay H said:
What's the most quotes you can get in a post which quotes a quoting quoteded quoteded quoteded quoteded quoteded quoteded quoteded post?
I have a similar issue with my house. The kids bedrooms up stairs do not get much heat from the pellet stove downstairs so we have a electric oil filled heater that we put in the hallway between their rooms and it does an excellent job on low all winter. I my bedroom we have a heated mattress pad that I would recommend over an electric blanket any day.
Viagra? J/K..couldn't resist. Our bedroom is miles away from the pellet stove--two corners away. We run one of those oil filled electric space heaters set to only use the 900 watt side on a timer during the winter.
Ghettontheball said:
When I got home from work today, my wife said her sister had called, and may need a place to stay for the winter. Now, I don't know if this has anything to do with the subject in question, but........
hossthehermit said:
Good one Hoss....hope she's a looker :lol:
Yeah, yeah, I know....I broke the chain of quotes...so shoot me ;-P
hello, well i guess i will buck the trend and give out my serious answer......
i ran into the same exact problem with having one , then two pellet stoves heating the main part of our house. all the bedroom doors are closed due to pets. some cold bedrooms, according to the my wife, so it was idea and experiment time to get the hot air off the hall way ceilings and into 4 bedrooms.
first the HD duct fans , way to loud, even i would not of slept well.
then the perfect idea, Computer Fans, yes the little 4" fan made for the CPU, bought at radio shack, 120v all hard wired to one switch. it worked great for all the smaller bedrooms, far for the master bedroom, but we have a elec matress pad, and snuggling of course...... you can stand outside one of the bed rooms and feel at the base of the door the cold air being forced out of the room. make sure you have that gap though.
hope it helps.
david
i ran into the same exact problem with having one , then two pellet stoves heating the main part of our house. all the bedroom doors are closed due to pets. some cold bedrooms, according to the my wife, so it was idea and experiment time to get the hot air off the hall way ceilings and into 4 bedrooms.
first the HD duct fans , way to loud, even i would not of slept well.
then the perfect idea, Computer Fans, yes the little 4" fan made for the CPU, bought at radio shack, 120v all hard wired to one switch. it worked great for all the smaller bedrooms, far for the master bedroom, but we have a elec matress pad, and snuggling of course...... you can stand outside one of the bed rooms and feel at the base of the door the cold air being forced out of the room. make sure you have that gap though.
hope it helps.
david
photogame said:
Yep, those have been mentioned in the past.....very quiet, and move a surprising amount of air.
macman said:
but how do you get them to work through a solid wall? (doors to the room in question need to be kept closed to keep pets out, and all...)
cac4 said:
You could replace doors with louvers or put in louver kits in the doors. There are also wall louver kits at HD or Lowes. These kits are easy to install. Some have the fan built in to the kit too! I suggest louver kits above the doors with air blowing into the bed room.
just fyi
jay
jtakeman said:
Jay, I think the louver w/ the built in fan, placed above the bedroom door would be a great solution as long as the fan isn't too noisy.
I would use a piece of 4" round duct pipe and a end cap with a hole in it, mount the fan on the end cap.cac4 said:
Ghettontheball said:
When I got home from work today, my wife said her sister had called, and may need a place to stay for the winter. Now, I don't know if this has anything to do with the subject in question, but........[/quote]duh.with 2 women in br u might need a window ac! just for the noise of course so u dont have to listen to them[/quote]
Might be the limit??????????
How true about turning on the blanket. Sliding in when it's that cold reminds me of sleeping in a darned fox hole or similar unpleasant army experience. That is when it also is nice to have programmable thermostats on everything from the stove to the furnace. Gotta tell that pellet stove to wake up early or its a cold wake up for someone and I get to hear about it when I come home from work at 8 am. Having a thermostat in general seems to help GREATLY in keeping costs down for some reason or another as well. Between setting things back lower and using a thermostat somehow my average use went from 5 or 6 tons to just about 3 the last couple years.
geez, you guys and your fancy electric fans and blankets, just to keep the pets out!
here's what we do to keep pets out and let heat in-
get a baby gate for the doorway, or
install a french door, the kind with 15 glass panes in it, and remove the glass.
or how about an old fashioned wooden screen door?
here's what we do to keep pets out and let heat in-
get a baby gate for the doorway, or
install a french door, the kind with 15 glass panes in it, and remove the glass.
or how about an old fashioned wooden screen door?
We just leave the door open my German shepard sleeps at the foot of the bed keeps the feet warm :lol:
close the pets in another room: assumes that I actually have another room to put them in; if I did, I'd need to leave the door open to it to heat it, too. and kitties have to get to their food/litter boxes, anyway.
they'll jump right over a gate, or through any opening in a door. a screen door...now that might work, but it would be kind of weird, don't you think? probably cheaper and easier to go w/ one of those through-the-wall fans that I linked before.
they'll jump right over a gate, or through any opening in a door. a screen door...now that might work, but it would be kind of weird, don't you think? probably cheaper and easier to go w/ one of those through-the-wall fans that I linked before.
put the cats outside where they belong and enjoy a cleaner, fresher smelling house and a warmer bedroom.
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