The person I quoted at the end is a singer. And she hates it.
My house got cold over the past few days/nights when the weather was colder, and when the sun's as far south as it is, the house doesn't heat up from insolation very quickly (it does so all too quickly in spring and summer). Since I don't have heating oil yet (money that's expected to be enough to pay for a tank of oil is supposed to be coming "soon" but I don't know when), the house got down at least as low as 285 K yesterday. It's up to 290 K now that the windows have been open a while; that's about what the weather forecast said the outside temperature was supposed to reach (though it still feels warmer outside). It's about time to close the windows again now.
Unfortunately the electric space heater in the bathroom (one of those freestanding oil-filled radiators) appears to have died. :-(
Are those oil-filled heaters good? I used to use the electric ones with the coils that heated up and a fan would cycle on and off, blowing warmed air into the room. Better than nothing but.......
I knew there was something weird I wasn't remembering about your heat...oil. We don't have that in the midwest. How does it work? Who delivers it? How much does it cost? 17 C isn't all that warm.......
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They're good for what they're good for, if that makes any sense. One won't heat a room quickly, nor warm your toes in a hurry like the blower-heaters will, but for warming up a small room like a bathroom, or taking the edge off the chill in a large bedroom on a continuing basis, they do what they're supposed to. Better or worse than a convection heater probably depends on room geometry. They seem (at least) to be less of a fire risk than other types.
Ideally I'd have the radiator or a convection heater keeping the bathroom at a "don't freeze the wobbly-bits off when I use the toilet" temperature and have one of the coils-and-fan ones to bring it up to "can stand to step out of the shower" temperature while I'm showering ... but the forced-air heater I was using for that has also died. Wheee.
I think heating oil usually costs about the same as diesel. (IIRC, the difference between the two is a tax, and a dye indicating whether the tax has been paid.) It's delivered by any one of a bunch of companies that send small tanker-trucks around -- it works pretty well when one can afford it, and worked even better when I had a delivery contract where they'd come and fill the tank when their calculations predicted I'd probably be running low (I could call them if I needed more ahead of schedule, but that never happened) -- they'd slide a delivery receipt through the mail slot and send me a bill later -- and just before heating season they'd send a tech out to PM the furnace ... but then I wasn't able to pay the bill for the final tankful the winter-before-last and I owe that oil company between $500 and $600, so I'm thinking I'll need to pay cash up front at some other oil company this winter. (Last winter a friend bought me most of a tank of oil as a gift, which I managed to stretch to spring by not running the furnace every day.)
Cost-wise, it's a problem. Effectiveness-wise, OTOH ... when I do turn on the furnace, the house heats up right quickly. It's a hot-water radiator system.
Re: Trepanation........ick.
My house got cold over the past few days/nights when the weather was colder, and when the sun's as far south as it is, the house doesn't heat up from insolation very quickly (it does so all too quickly in spring and summer). Since I don't have heating oil yet (money that's expected to be enough to pay for a tank of oil is supposed to be coming "soon" but I don't know when), the house got down at least as low as 285 K yesterday. It's up to 290 K now that the windows have been open a while; that's about what the weather forecast said the outside temperature was supposed to reach (though it still feels warmer outside). It's about time to close the windows again now.
Unfortunately the electric space heater in the bathroom (one of those freestanding oil-filled radiators) appears to have died. :-(
Re: Trepanation........ick.
I knew there was something weird I wasn't remembering about your heat...oil. We don't have that in the midwest. How does it work? Who delivers it? How much does it cost? 17 C isn't all that warm.......
Send email to me at work. Get addy from A if you don't have it. I can't get my home email here. Thanks :)
Re: Trepanation........ick.
Ideally I'd have the radiator or a convection heater keeping the bathroom at a "don't freeze the wobbly-bits off when I use the toilet" temperature and have one of the coils-and-fan ones to bring it up to "can stand to step out of the shower" temperature while I'm showering ... but the forced-air heater I was using for that has also died. Wheee.
I think heating oil usually costs about the same as diesel. (IIRC, the difference between the two is a tax, and a dye indicating whether the tax has been paid.) It's delivered by any one of a bunch of companies that send small tanker-trucks around -- it works pretty well when one can afford it, and worked even better when I had a delivery contract where they'd come and fill the tank when their calculations predicted I'd probably be running low (I could call them if I needed more ahead of schedule, but that never happened) -- they'd slide a delivery receipt through the mail slot and send me a bill later -- and just before heating season they'd send a tech out to PM the furnace ... but then I wasn't able to pay the bill for the final tankful the winter-before-last and I owe that oil company between $500 and $600, so I'm thinking I'll need to pay cash up front at some other oil company this winter. (Last winter a friend bought me most of a tank of oil as a gift, which I managed to stretch to spring by not running the furnace every day.)
Cost-wise, it's a problem. Effectiveness-wise, OTOH ... when I do turn on the furnace, the house heats up right quickly. It's a hot-water radiator system.