OT Central Heating

bonbon wrote:
Maybe Houston, with all the people, pavement, refineries, traffic,
chili cook-offs, and BBQ pits has created it's own little climate or
global warming effect and now we don't get winter anymore. (?)

Y'all don't have winter, really. Here in Central Texas winter is very
short, and it usually starts after x-mas. This week we're having record
high temperatures, in the low 90's (mid 30's in Celsius). The A/C is
going full-blast!

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bonbon wrote:
Maybe Houston, with all the people, pavement, refineries, traffic,
chili cook-offs, and BBQ pits has created it's own little climate or
global warming effect and now we don't get winter anymore. (?)

Y'all don't have winter, really. Here in Central Texas winter is very
short, and it usually starts after x-mas. This week we're having record
high temperatures, in the low 90's (mid 30's in Celsius). The A/C is
going full-blast!

--
Victor Martinez
Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM)
Send your spam he
Email me he

bonbon wrote:
Maybe Houston, with all the people, pavement, refineries, traffic,
chili cook-offs, and BBQ pits has created it's own little climate or
global warming effect and now we don't get winter anymore. (?)

Y'all don't have winter, really. Here in Central Texas winter is very
short, and it usually starts after x-mas. This week we're having record
high temperatures, in the low 90's (mid 30's in Celsius). The A/C is
going full-blast!

--
Victor Martinez
Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM)
Send your spam he
Email me he

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:15:08 GMT, Victor Martinez
wrote:

bonbon wrote:
Maybe Houston, with all the people, pavement, refineries, traffic,
chili cook-offs, and BBQ pits has created it's own little climate or
global warming effect and now we don't get winter anymore. (?)

Y'all don't have winter, really. Here in Central Texas winter is very
short, and it usually starts after x-mas. This week we're having record
high temperatures, in the low 90's (mid 30's in Celsius). The A/C is
going full-blast!

$$ ka-chinnng $$ ka-chinnng

-bonbon

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:15:08 GMT, Victor Martinez
wrote:

bonbon wrote:
Maybe Houston, with all the people, pavement, refineries, traffic,
chili cook-offs, and BBQ pits has created it's own little climate or
global warming effect and now we don't get winter anymore. (?)

Y'all don't have winter, really. Here in Central Texas winter is very
short, and it usually starts after x-mas. This week we're having record
high temperatures, in the low 90's (mid 30's in Celsius). The A/C is
going full-blast!

$$ ka-chinnng $$ ka-chinnng

-bonbon

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:15:08 GMT, Victor Martinez
wrote:

bonbon wrote:
Maybe Houston, with all the people, pavement, refineries, traffic,
chili cook-offs, and BBQ pits has created it's own little climate or
global warming effect and now we don't get winter anymore. (?)

Y'all don't have winter, really. Here in Central Texas winter is very
short, and it usually starts after x-mas. This week we're having record
high temperatures, in the low 90's (mid 30's in Celsius). The A/C is
going full-blast!

$$ ka-chinnng $$ ka-chinnng

-bonbon

"Doe John" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:57:21 +0000 (UTC), Cheryl Perkins
wrote:


I tend to turn on the heat only in rooms I use and only when I am home,
except for some minimum amount in the area with the washer and sinks when
I'm scared about the pipes freezing. I don't go by temperature as such,
but I think I like things a lot cooler than most people (going by the way
public places are heated) and would consider 20 C (68 F) a daytime
maximum, and too warm for nights when I'm snug under the blankets. So
when I *do* turn on a thermostat, it's 20C in the day, and back to 0C at
night. I wear sweaters or sweatshirts if needed, and the cats have their
own genuine fur coats. They've always slept near or on me, but they hate
being covered up by blankets for warmth, so I don't think they mind the
temperatures. In fact, Betsy has taken to protesting if I dare to try to
share *my* bed; she'd clearly prefer to sleep alone, stretched out across
it, rather than share my warmth and her space.

All the rooms have vents which can be opened or closed to allow heat
through the ducts. I keep all of them closed except for downstairs the
upstairs bedroom. By keeping all the vents open, would the house heat
faster and thus save momey? Gas during the winter costs around 400
dollars a month. Very inefficient thermostat or house . Even during
the coldest months, the temperature won't approach what the thermostat
is set at.

There are two things you can mess up by doing this. Where is the furnace
getting its return air from? If it is from an unheated area it will change
the balance of things. And where is the thermostat?

Air balance, especially in a two story building is designed with the notion
of most of the vents being opened and most of the inside doors being opened
most of the time. If you only want to heat two rooms, it might even make
more sense to use space heaters in those rooms, and use the central to keep
the whole house warm enough to prevent frozen pipes, etc.

Jo

"Doe John" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:57:21 +0000 (UTC), Cheryl Perkins
wrote:


I tend to turn on the heat only in rooms I use and only when I am home,
except for some minimum amount in the area with the washer and sinks when
I'm scared about the pipes freezing. I don't go by temperature as such,
but I think I like things a lot cooler than most people (going by the way
public places are heated) and would consider 20 C (68 F) a daytime
maximum, and too warm for nights when I'm snug under the blankets. So
when I *do* turn on a thermostat, it's 20C in the day, and back to 0C at
night. I wear sweaters or sweatshirts if needed, and the cats have their
own genuine fur coats. They've always slept near or on me, but they hate
being covered up by blankets for warmth, so I don't think they mind the
temperatures. In fact, Betsy has taken to protesting if I dare to try to
share *my* bed; she'd clearly prefer to sleep alone, stretched out across
it, rather than share my warmth and her space.

All the rooms have vents which can be opened or closed to allow heat
through the ducts. I keep all of them closed except for downstairs the
upstairs bedroom. By keeping all the vents open, would the house heat
faster and thus save momey? Gas during the winter costs around 400
dollars a month. Very inefficient thermostat or house . Even during
the coldest months, the temperature won't approach what the thermostat
is set at.

There are two things you can mess up by doing this. Where is the furnace
getting its return air from? If it is from an unheated area it will change
the balance of things. And where is the thermostat?

Air balance, especially in a two story building is designed with the notion
of most of the vents being opened and most of the inside doors being opened
most of the time. If you only want to heat two rooms, it might even make
more sense to use space heaters in those rooms, and use the central to keep
the whole house warm enough to prevent frozen pipes, etc.

Jo

"Doe John" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:57:21 +0000 (UTC), Cheryl Perkins
wrote:


I tend to turn on the heat only in rooms I use and only when I am home,
except for some minimum amount in the area with the washer and sinks when
I'm scared about the pipes freezing. I don't go by temperature as such,
but I think I like things a lot cooler than most people (going by the way
public places are heated) and would consider 20 C (68 F) a daytime
maximum, and too warm for nights when I'm snug under the blankets. So
when I *do* turn on a thermostat, it's 20C in the day, and back to 0C at
night. I wear sweaters or sweatshirts if needed, and the cats have their
own genuine fur coats. They've always slept near or on me, but they hate
being covered up by blankets for warmth, so I don't think they mind the
temperatures. In fact, Betsy has taken to protesting if I dare to try to
share *my* bed; she'd clearly prefer to sleep alone, stretched out across
it, rather than share my warmth and her space.

All the rooms have vents which can be opened or closed to allow heat
through the ducts. I keep all of them closed except for downstairs the
upstairs bedroom. By keeping all the vents open, would the house heat
faster and thus save momey? Gas during the winter costs around 400
dollars a month. Very inefficient thermostat or house . Even during
the coldest months, the temperature won't approach what the thermostat
is set at.

There are two things you can mess up by doing this. Where is the furnace
getting its return air from? If it is from an unheated area it will change
the balance of things. And where is the thermostat?

Air balance, especially in a two story building is designed with the notion
of most of the vents being opened and most of the inside doors being opened
most of the time. If you only want to heat two rooms, it might even make
more sense to use space heaters in those rooms, and use the central to keep
the whole house warm enough to prevent frozen pipes, etc.

Jo

"bonbon" wrote in message

Gosh, all this talk about heating, and thermostats! I'm starting to
wonder if all of Houston has been beamed into the Twilight Zone or
some other dimension..........I'm running my A/C at this very moment.

Ok. I just took a reality check. I went out and looked at the
electrical meter on the back of the house, and that kilowatt dial
thingy is spinning like crazy, so we must still be with y'all.
$$ Ka-chinnng $$ Ka-chinnng $$ Ka-chinnng.

Maybe Houston, with all the people, pavement, refineries, traffic,
chili cook-offs, and BBQ pits has created it's own little climate or
global warming effect and now we don't get winter anymore. (?)

-bonbon

That was how it was here last week. Northern California. We were still
having highs in the 90s every day. One day of wind and we have switched to
highs in the low 60.s.

Hate sudden changes. And so does my very ****ed off cat who is out looking
for a non-existant patch of sun.

Jo