After one year of living with electric heat, and much debate over the various heating options, we finally decided on a forced air propane system. The installation began in January and took a week to complete. They started with constructing all the ductwork in the crawlspace. In the picture below, you can see where they had to knock out some blocks in the foundation wall to run the supply and return pipes. You can also see one of the vents which is heating the crawlspace -- now the floor is at room temperature, instead of a chilly 4 degrees.
Due to the limited height in our crawlspace, they had to mount the furnace on its side. It's a pain to access, but it's nice that we didn't lose any living space.
And here's our new fancy furnace. The flex pipe is for the humidier.
Our new programmable thermostat! Hey look, we're not freezing! It's hard to imagine that we won't have to adjust 8 individual thermostats anymore. Not that we actually adjusted those, since they were essentially self-adjusting (to random temperatures).
Gaylord made us some wooden vent covers to match the maple floor in the living room and...
the ash floor in the master bedroom.
With thanks to Uncle John's electric expertise, we safely ripped out all the old electric baseboard heaters. We eventually donated them to another home through freecycle.
We are still in the process of removing all the wires that ran to the thermostats for those electric baseboards. It's going to take some time and eventually we'll have to patch up the holes.
Our propane gets delivered to three little pigs. Porky, Miss Piggy and Babe?
We are now toasty warm from our feet all the way up!
Due to the limited height in our crawlspace, they had to mount the furnace on its side. It's a pain to access, but it's nice that we didn't lose any living space.
And here's our new fancy furnace. The flex pipe is for the humidier.
Our new programmable thermostat! Hey look, we're not freezing! It's hard to imagine that we won't have to adjust 8 individual thermostats anymore. Not that we actually adjusted those, since they were essentially self-adjusting (to random temperatures).
Gaylord made us some wooden vent covers to match the maple floor in the living room and...
the ash floor in the master bedroom.
With thanks to Uncle John's electric expertise, we safely ripped out all the old electric baseboard heaters. We eventually donated them to another home through freecycle.
We are still in the process of removing all the wires that ran to the thermostats for those electric baseboards. It's going to take some time and eventually we'll have to patch up the holes.
Our propane gets delivered to three little pigs. Porky, Miss Piggy and Babe?
We are now toasty warm from our feet all the way up!
2 comments:
I love the three little pigs. I want to say HI to them in person. I like the duct covers too, or whateveryoumc-call them.
That's all well and good, but what about lighting in the bedroom?
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