Re: Space heaters v/s whole house

"Nick Pine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Nina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I can close the vents downstairs int he family room, but usually the
> >bedrooms are still frigid.
> >I dont know what kind of heat we have.
>
> Sounds like "forced air" of some sort, which might be a heat pump or
> an electric resistance or oil- or gas- or propane-fired furnace. Do you
> see big tanks in the basement or outside the house? Do big trucks appear
> from time to time with mysterious hoses? Do you have a large noisy round
> cylinder or box somewhere outside the house? Does it have AC?
>
> Unless you have an electric resistance furnace, it's probably frugaler
> to change where the present system delivers the heat by adjusting vents
> than to use electric space heaters...

No big tanks. We use gas heat, the power bill now beaks it down into
electricity charges and gas charges.
We dont have AC, sadly.