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...
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Ken O wrote:
The links tell/show buckling of foundations. So I guess you are still telling me that the bowing of the foundation has something to do with not heating the house. Sorry, I just don't buy it.
Nuff said, I'm moving on....
No what I'm saying is the bowing of the walls is the frost pushing in the walls from the outside. Has nothing to do with not heating just the amount of heat that escaped those walls and the quality of construction of those walls.
Don't really care if you buy it or not and I'm glad you're moving on. What I do care is those that may read this forum and feel that turning off the heat is a no brainer based on a few that do. Well repairing a foundation is a 10-20 thousand dollar job. Lots to loose to save a few hundred on heating. We turn off our heat to our place, but our place was built to handle that and the extreme cold. Most places that are built to code will do just fine, and the ones that were built by someone that knew what they were doing back in the day.
