5.7
Maybe we’ll get all the way to Zero tonight- YAY!
Damned global warming. DAMN YOU ALGORE!
Firewood is a welcome thing. Two years ago or maybe more we got a buttload of firewood from Mr B, and last year, IIRC, he and I went to remove a downed cherry some of which I am still burning. I have some more to split, but my optometrist’s church is selling split seasoned firewood to raise money for a group of indigents that live down around Kankakee. The delivered price was right, and the charity was good, so I had him drop a half cord off Saturday. The Ogwife and I stacked it in the woodshed and we’re damned glad to have it, as well as the last of the stuff we got from Mr B.. Anything to keep Nipsco at bay.
In related news the electric bills keep down so long as I use the LED lights, and the sooner I can switch the whole house to them the happier I will be. I don’t give a shit about the environment or sustainability, that’s all leftist bullshit, I’m just a cheap bastard-and regular light bulbs die here often enough that the LED’s are a good bargain costwise, and the savings in electrical helps a great deal. Pity I can’t get an LED blower for the furnace.
You CAN get a soft-start, variable speed blower for your furnace, but the motor and controller would set you back at least half the price of the complete installation.
Five years ago, I went from a crappy Miller-Nordyne gas furnace to a 95% AFUE Lennox, and my electric bills dropped 25% (utility hikes have almost eaten that up, BTW). The modern blower systems are VERY efficient users of electricity.
I replaced all my recessed BR36 with LEDs that were on sale at Home Depot.
Brighter, whiter, but only the Decora style x-10 switches will work with them, and then only when they are on.
Not enough leakage current to trigger the two wire x-10s on.
Was -2 here in Lowell at 3 am.
yeah, Dog, I have a super high efficiency furnace. I want to invest in a demand water heater and I need to insulate the plumbing better. Yeah, Ed, I discovered that, to my dismay. B- do you use any wood to heat in Lowell? I have been in a very few places that had cozy woodfires in the lobby.
Wood fires are nice. Just expensive once you get the chain saws, 4×4’s and splitting machine.
We had a firebox at a place I worked where we used a drag line to load it. You did not want to be near that box unless your balls where blue.
Remember, when you get the in-line water heater to replace the tank, you’ll need to aquire a different meter for over $100 since the current meter cannot meter for the blast of gas required when it kicks on. Or so the people I know who got that story from the gas company when they got tankless were told that. Yet another cost of tankless.