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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I note the $$ spent in the post above to prepare a home for a winter without heat, it's about the same as heating our home over the winter.
I was thinking the same thing. Our place is in the middle of ski resort country, in the mountains of northeastern PA. In the worst winter in decades I keep my all electric house at 50*F for a cost of about ten cents a square foot a month. We had a need to return, unexpectedly, in brutally cold Feb. weather. Half an hour after we pulled in, the place was toasty, the water flowing and hot. I'm sure I could successfully winterize the place and turn the power off, but the cost/risk/benefit analysis doesn't add up. If I was a few hundred miles north and had a cabin on piers, it would be a whole other issue.
I was thinking the same thing. Our place is in the middle of ski resort country, in the mountains of northeastern PA. In the worst winter in decades I keep my all electric house at 50*F for a cost of about ten cents a square foot a month. We had a need to return, unexpectedly, in brutally cold Feb. weather. Half an hour after we pulled in, the place was toasty, the water flowing and hot. I'm sure I could successfully winterize the place and turn the power off, but the cost/risk/benefit analysis doesn't add up. If I was a few hundred miles north and had a cabin on piers, it would be a whole other issue.
