What kind of fuel do you use to heat your house?
By codris
@codris (781)
Italy
December 11, 2009 4:04am CST
Hi there, i use a lot of wood, beacause i've 3 forest and i've a lot of wood to cut and burn, so i've a stove, in my home there are always 24 - 26 °C, i've also normal gas heat implant but i prefere to use stove beacause is less expensive, my house is warmer with it and i can use stove also for cooking! my passion! And you? what kind of fuel do you use to heat your house? And is expensive or cheap? Thank you far your responses :)
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@jpso138 (7851)
• Philippines
18 Jan 12
Our country is a tropical country. So there is really no need for any heater. But for cooking we usually use an LPG, liquified petroleum gas for cooking and sometime use wood for fuel outside our house for cooking. The LPG is quite expensive but there is nothing much we can do since if we use wood inside our house, it would be dirty and even dangerous.
@drannhh (15219)
• United States
12 Dec 09
I don't like a gas furnace but that is what I have now. So mostly I use space heaters. I have a radiant one to heat up fast, and an oil-filled one that is slow to warm up but then it holds the heat. I don't much like one or the other, but together it is nice and warm.
@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
11 Dec 09
I heat my house with natural gas, which is supposed to go up in price soon. 
My house is 86 years old and they didn't know about insulation back then so it's not as warm as it could be. Adding insulation when they put on the siding helped, though. In the summer I use electricity to cool the house.
My grandma had a wood stove, I loved to watch her cook on it. She was so good at maintaining a temperature in it to bake with! Her furnace was coal and I remember going down into that spooky basement to throw in a shovel full of coal every hour or so. You must be a very good cook to be able to cook on that wood stove!
My house is 86 years old and they didn't know about insulation back then so it's not as warm as it could be. Adding insulation when they put on the siding helped, though. In the summer I use electricity to cool the house.
My grandma had a wood stove, I loved to watch her cook on it. She was so good at maintaining a temperature in it to bake with! Her furnace was coal and I remember going down into that spooky basement to throw in a shovel full of coal every hour or so. You must be a very good cook to be able to cook on that wood stove!