Re: Space heaters v/s whole house

Nina wrote:
> 
> My house is about 2000 square feet and the downstairs gets cold. There are 2
> bedrooms and a large empty room there, the kitchen, great room and 2
> bedrooms are upstairs. Itsusually warmer. The thermostat is near the kitchen
> so that throws things off, the heat wont come on till its near freexing
> downstairs.
> ANYWAY
> There are 4 bedrooms, Ispose the cheapest thing would be to make the boys
> share a room downstairs and use one heater and make my daughter share mine.
> But that isnt going to happen
> AM I saving money by using a few small space heaters and not heating the
> entire house? Or do 3 small heaters use as much energy?
> I dont want to heat downstairs because to get it warm would require heating
> it to about 80 up here.
> Help

Natural gas has doubled, then doubled again here.
Electricity, in the form of several space heaters, 
is how we are heating half our house.  The bill went
up, yes, but not as bad as the natural gas.
I have them in the coldest rooms & I turn them off as much as I can.
Make sure nothing flammable is anywhere nearby them.
I have one in the family room--fairly large convection heater, 
that heats most of the family room/lab/big hall set of rooms.
I also open the door to the basement--connected--to let warm 
air flow in there from the furnace as well.
There is also one in the office--heavily used room on the 
northwest side of the house & 1 big bathroom.
It's currently cheaper than gas.

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