Gwynne Michele
@thecurioushermit
I'm going through this polar vortex hitting the U.S. with no working furnace. It doesn't suck as much as you might think since I've got a woodstove, a bunch of wood, and also a nice oil-filled radiator space heater that had my bedroom a toasty 82F degrees overnight while it was sub-zero temps. I'd be totally screwed without that woodstove in the living room though - it's a bit too much space for the space heater to effectively cover.
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Kristin Piljay ツ
@kristinpiljay
yeah, I understand that as I lived in a cottage for 7 months in Ashland, Oregon and didn't have normal heating (which I think is illegal for a rental) and only had two oil-filled radiators to heat the place. If it turned colder, they struggled to heat the whole place and I couldn't add a third because there were only two breakers. No wood-burning stove either. So it would struggle to even get to 65 degrees inside. So I used to turn on my toaster oven and open the door to help heat it (didn't have a normal oven) and put a heating pad under my feet while I worked. It was during high covid times (2021-2022), so I didn't want to go work from a cafe. But for sure that the oil-filled radiators are better than the air-blowing ones (hate those - they make everything so dry). Stay warm!
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Gwynne Michele
@thecurioushermit
The oil-filled radiator seems to cover a bigger room than the air-blowing ones. I've got an air-blowing one that could keep the bedroom just warm enough that I could sleep in there, but not really get it warm. The oil-filled radiator has no problem at all keeping the room warm, thankfully! The woodstove does the heavy lifting in the main part of the house, though. Once I get the fire going good in the morning, I can get it up over 70 at the thermostat, which is all the way across the room from the woodstove. I need to get a thermometer to put on the wall closer to the woodstove to see what temp it gets there, though.
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