On the subject of heat...

[smokey the elder]

..what kind of heat do you use (if you need it)? Gas, electric, wood, oil?

I have a System 2000 oil burner, hot water heat with REAL radiators! So toasty. I'm looking for an oil company that supplies bio-fuel, which can be burned like #2 fuel oil.

[chocolatepuppy]

natural gas

[Samantha Puppy]

Gas here too.

[CathyBogart]

If I need it, I use wood. Usually though, the reptile heat bulbs/pads are enough.

[Jessika]

We have an electric baseboard heater, our "house" is very very very very tiny so that's all we need. And besides our landlord pays all utilities

[anna_66]

We have electric baseboard heaters.

[buckner]

Electric.

[JenBKR]

Gas. We are buying an electric fireplace this weekend though, since gas prices are going through the roof

[Glacier]

Wood. We have new woodstove for this winter and 10 cords of wood stacked up in the yard.

We also have a propane furnance for back up, but we rarely use it. We had electric baseboard heaters too, but we disconnected all of them. Way too expensive to even consider using them.

[lv4dogs]

My furnace runs off of fuel oil &/or Kerosene. I can even mix the 2 together.
Fuel oil gums up below 30F so I usually just have Kerosene, it's a little more expensive but it's cheaper than replacing my furnace when the oil gums up & ruins it.
It's not that bad either, it costs me about $400-500 to heat all year long, even last year when we had a LOT of below zero days.

[RICHARD]

Thermodynamic law three......


A cat!

[Logan]

Our downstairs unit runs off of natural gas in the winter........it is a "gas pac", electric in the summer and gas in the winter. The upstairs unit is a heat pump, which is totally electric. We also have a wood burning stove as well as a kerosene heater. As long as my birds are warm enough, the rest of us will be fine, I'm sure. I'm trying to add layers and prep everyone to dress warmly because I do NOT want those units running constantly!

Logan

[caseysmom]

I have no idea...I turn the switch to on and hot air comes out the vents

[Lady's Human]

We have oil (the front half of the house) propane (the back half) and three fireplaces. Probably next year we're ditching the propane and oil furnaces and installing a wood pellet burning furnace. (One heck of a lot cheaper than burning dead dinosaurs)

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

We have natural gas at home and at work. My parents have an oil burning furnace which heats hot water which runs through baseboard heat. They finally - after 30 years - had to install a new furnace at the end of last year. I haven't heard any complaints or requests to visit us yet, so I'm assuming the new furnace is working.

In the motorhome we have a diesel burner which heats the water, then the hot water is run through a radiator type thing which has a little fan behind it to blow the air, which was heated by the water, out into the rooms. We also have electrically heated tile floors and I absolutley LOVE them!!! If I was ever going to redo our floors in the house and put tile in, I would definitely add the heated part to them. It is soooo neat to be able to walk around on an all tile floor with no slippers. We don't have to freeze our tootsies when we get out of bed in the middle of the night - but don't walk too near the edges, or near the door because you'll realize just how cold that floor would be if it wasn't heated!