No heat in northern home all winter.
With the high cost of keeping heat in our Illinois home all winter while we are gone I am considering turning off all heat to our house. I already turn the water off and blow out the lines and winter...
Forum Discussion
Ken O wrote:
According to your post,you heat foundations where you live. How do you do that? We only heat the house and that would have nothing to do with the "frost busting the foundations", obviously you would have to get heat down there somehow. We insulate to keep the heat above the crawl space. You must do it different. This sounds real fishy to me.
You're taking it way too literal. No one heats there foundation other than maybe heat in slab which really isn't a foundation. All foundations loose heat to the surrounding ground even if they are insulated. Some will only insulate the top half of a finish basement to insure heat gets out because they don't want to chance it. In a simple terms it lost heat lost. Something you would not have if you shut off the furnace to the whole house.
Here is a link to educate yourself on what can happen with extreme cold, take a look at the bowing of walls. That is what you will see when frost starts pushing on a foundation that does not have enough rebar and concrete in it to push back. Clicky Or do those pictures look real fishy to you also?
