John&Joey wrote:
pawatt wrote:
If it really costs $300.00 a month to heat empty with no one going in and out letting cold air in imagine what it would cost to keep 2 old folks warm if they ever had to spend the winter there.
That has crossed my mind also. The cost was real, since I got the numbers direct from MPL electric.
I like your numbers a lot better!!! If I get enough responses that are like your numbers then I'll know something is very wrong, and need to be researched further to correct it.
We are lucky to have natural gas at the lake, currently the cheapest fuel. I wonder if you could just heat the basement and enough warm air would rise to keep the main floor above freezing. You could do like we did in the old days & put straw bales around the basement. I do know people with basements that turn off the heat, never any problems, maybe it depends on soil type, we are mostly fine sand around here after you get past the top soil.
