Are you ready for Winter? How do you stay warm? How's the wood pile looking?

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[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Must be interesting living in a place where heating is always the main concern. Down here in the south, it's all about A/C cooling power, maybe 3/4 of the year. Heat comes in a lot of forms as you mentioned, but cold only really comes in the form of A/C. Certainly requires different approaches.

Thanks for the article, I like this sub a lot.

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    [–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    I don't want to speak from a position of authority on this subject since I really have a lot to learn yet.

    Don't we all, friend.

    The part of the world where I live in south Texas, we use the heater maybe 10 days a year and the A/C probably 280 days a year. During the peak of the summer the A/C can't usually keep up and the house gets up to 82F. But getting a new A/C is like $6k...

    I kind of wish I lived in a place where I had to keep warm rather than keep cool. Then I could actually use my fireplace once in a while haha. I have maybe 1/4 cord of wood outside that hasn't been touched in 8 months.

    [–]OCNoob1 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    "I have maybe 1/4 cord of wood outside that hasn't been touched in 8 months" Time to fire up the smoker..

    [–]EzraPoundsClone 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I'm hooked up to municipal natural gas, pretty simple, all I have to do is replace the filter once a year with a Nordic Pure filter.