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kittyblue7
Would my bill be lower if I put an electric heater upstairs (in the hall way) and turned on the fireplace in the living room (gas fireplace, pretty much heats up the whole downstairs) and turned down the thermostat to 55 or completely off?
Answer
We heat our home using a Gas Pack downstairs and a new high efficiency Heat Pump upstairs. We also use 2 "Lasko" 1500 watt rotating ceramic air heaters (remote controlled).
I also installed an additional layer (without vapor barrier) of insulation with a high "R" rating in the attic on top of the original layer of insulation.
The combination of these items has lowered our monthly heating cost (NC).
Note: As long as the thermostat is set lower than the temperature maintained in your home by your fireplace the other heat system should not come on.
We heat our home using a Gas Pack downstairs and a new high efficiency Heat Pump upstairs. We also use 2 "Lasko" 1500 watt rotating ceramic air heaters (remote controlled).
I also installed an additional layer (without vapor barrier) of insulation with a high "R" rating in the attic on top of the original layer of insulation.
The combination of these items has lowered our monthly heating cost (NC).
Note: As long as the thermostat is set lower than the temperature maintained in your home by your fireplace the other heat system should not come on.
lowering my heating bill?
kittyblue7
Would my bill be lower if I put an electric heater upstairs (in the hall way) and turned on the fireplace in the living room (gas fireplace, pretty much heats up the whole downstairs) and turned down the thermostat to 55 or completely off?
Answer
That sounds like a band-aid solution. It would be far better to begin applying a slightly more permanent solution-using blue-board or green-board panels. These are foam-core boards in 2x8 and 4x8 foot sheets with or without foil backings. It would be best to go without foil backing, and beware of formaldehyde odors. Once you apply these to the inside surface of your outside facing walls (the ones that frame the actual house, not interior walls) then the heating bills will drop drastically. I should know-several years before I left my parents' home, which was a mobile home with terrible insulation, we began attaching greenboard to the inside wall surfaces. Just in one room, near the wood stove we used in the winter, it was so warm, we actually began decreasing our wood usage. The temperature difference might have been as high as 15 degrees higher after we attached the insulation board. It usually measures 1 inch thick, so be prepared to re-plan your interior, but even in the summertime, the cooling bills will be much, much lower because the cold air will stay inside. Just try it in a small room upstairs-see what happens. You only need to be careful not to go broke buying all that insulation board-buy a few panels at a time.
That sounds like a band-aid solution. It would be far better to begin applying a slightly more permanent solution-using blue-board or green-board panels. These are foam-core boards in 2x8 and 4x8 foot sheets with or without foil backings. It would be best to go without foil backing, and beware of formaldehyde odors. Once you apply these to the inside surface of your outside facing walls (the ones that frame the actual house, not interior walls) then the heating bills will drop drastically. I should know-several years before I left my parents' home, which was a mobile home with terrible insulation, we began attaching greenboard to the inside wall surfaces. Just in one room, near the wood stove we used in the winter, it was so warm, we actually began decreasing our wood usage. The temperature difference might have been as high as 15 degrees higher after we attached the insulation board. It usually measures 1 inch thick, so be prepared to re-plan your interior, but even in the summertime, the cooling bills will be much, much lower because the cold air will stay inside. Just try it in a small room upstairs-see what happens. You only need to be careful not to go broke buying all that insulation board-buy a few panels at a time.
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