Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Closing off rooms doesn't help much in this house with regard to the main heat, but closing electric heaters in to heat individual important rooms works -- bedroom, office, bathroom (the kitchen can be heated quickly by choosing to cook something, though it sometimes helps to start by boiling a big pot of water just to warm the room a little before pulling out the ingredients and knives).

Not wanting to prevent Perrine from being able to get around the house puts a crimp in the "keep the doors to the warm rooms closed all the time" aproach this year. Considering curtains/blankets in the doorways.

The thing is, I can regulate airflow past the radiators a little, but not much, and I can't shut off water to individual radiators, so I'm heating all the rooms anyhow, closed or not, when I run the furnace. (And most of the doors and floors are leaky enough that no room is ever quite closed off anyhow.)

There's a program that gives reduced rates for energy for poor people in Maryland that they make it easy to find out how to donate to but harder to find out how to apply... Working on that. IIRC, it's not a huge amount, but would still help if I qualify.