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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Kristin Piljay ツ
@kristinpiljay
That's a great temp! Even where I live now with regular heating, it's often too cold (but I bundle up). It's 68 now, but sometimes it gets as low as 66. It's because it's a basement and the thermostat is upstairs in my friend's house and when it's sunny, it heats the upstairs a lot (and it's often sunny in Colorado), so the heat won't turn on and so the downstairs can get quite chilly when it's set to 70 upstairs. On cloudy days the heat works fine down here. I do have an oil-filled radiator for the bedroom if I need it and could use it in the living room, but it's a big room, so it doesn't really "heat the space" well and I also don't want to cause my friend's energy bill to go up. It's a basement suite, but it's open to the upstairs, connected by a stairwell, so only the bedroom and bathroom are enclosed. I find those air-blower heaters to be too dry. It was terrible in Ashland as it was so dry there. it would be like 30% humidity in there.
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