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<blockquote data-quote="Little Joe" data-source="post: 1779699" data-attributes="member: 39122"><p>I heat the upper part of our home with a central Heat pump and have a blue flame propane heater in the basement to heat it, of course the heat from the basement rises to help heat upstairs. When we first bought this house it had a wood burning stove in the basement,11 electric baseboard heaters, 2 blueflame propane heaters and 2 small window units to cool with. As I've mentioned I'm head of maintenance at a school now but my background was HVAC, so the first year that I was doing HVAC work I installed central heat and air in my own house and got rid of the baseboard heaters and window units, and then later on during a remodel took out the wood heater and one of the blue flame stoves. Taking out the wood heat made my insurance drop considerably. If it's ging to be below freezing several days I always recommend turning a heat pump to Auxillary/Emergency heat on the thermostat. Heat pump is not efficient below freezing and ice building on the coils outside will cause major problems.</p><p> When I had my HVAC business, I installed several of what we call dual fuel systems. You pair a heat pump with a gas furnace ( I installed 90% furnace instead of traditional 80%), install a thermostat outside so that if it gets below freezing it kicks on the gas heat. Basically replaces the electric backup strips with propane heat. A little more pricey up front but everyone I installed them for loved them. Those electric strips will eat into your pocketbook if you use them much and gas heat is much warmer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Little Joe, post: 1779699, member: 39122"] I heat the upper part of our home with a central Heat pump and have a blue flame propane heater in the basement to heat it, of course the heat from the basement rises to help heat upstairs. When we first bought this house it had a wood burning stove in the basement,11 electric baseboard heaters, 2 blueflame propane heaters and 2 small window units to cool with. As I've mentioned I'm head of maintenance at a school now but my background was HVAC, so the first year that I was doing HVAC work I installed central heat and air in my own house and got rid of the baseboard heaters and window units, and then later on during a remodel took out the wood heater and one of the blue flame stoves. Taking out the wood heat made my insurance drop considerably. If it's ging to be below freezing several days I always recommend turning a heat pump to Auxillary/Emergency heat on the thermostat. Heat pump is not efficient below freezing and ice building on the coils outside will cause major problems. When I had my HVAC business, I installed several of what we call dual fuel systems. You pair a heat pump with a gas furnace ( I installed 90% furnace instead of traditional 80%), install a thermostat outside so that if it gets below freezing it kicks on the gas heat. Basically replaces the electric backup strips with propane heat. A little more pricey up front but everyone I installed them for loved them. Those electric strips will eat into your pocketbook if you use them much and gas heat is much warmer. [/QUOTE]
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