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Power outage in the winter?
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Yup, that's it. Although that one appears to have been updated with some sort of electric control (perhaps just a microvolt system that still doesn't require outside power). My great aunt's furnace had a control mounted on the wall upstairs and chains that ran from it to the air control on the front of the firebox. I got in trouble more than once for playing with it!
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Because we get outages in the summer due to storms and also in the winter due to ice build up on the trees (broken branches over wires) I had this installed, which is hooked up to our 1000 gallon propane tank. Fully automatic, were never out of power. Once a week it runs on it's own for about ten minutes checking the circuits and shuts down. Love it! PJ
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"I grew up in a house that had one large heater grate between the living room and kitchen, it was a one story house so the doors were left open during the day, at night we had a ton of quilts to sleep under. We had hot water only in the winter as a manifold from the water heater was inside the furnace. Water was heated in the summer for a bath, on top of the kitchen stove. For air conditioning, all the windows and doors were open during the day. I surly don't complain about the luxuries we have today. Wouldn't it be nice if some of the kids today had to live like we did years ago, just for a short time mind you. And in 1948 we got a 6 inch TV in a 4 foot wide cabinet! We were stepping in high cotton then, moving in with the rich folks! :highly_amused:"
Paul, that perfectly describes my house, when I moved in twelve years ago the only heat was a floor furnace in between the living room and the hall to the kitchen and one small wall furnace in the laundry room. I replace the floor furnace with a gas fireplace and ran a gas line from the laundry room to my sons' room to hook up a wall furnace in there. Since half of my windows were painted shut I put some window units in the house to provide A/C.
Paul, that perfectly describes my house, when I moved in twelve years ago the only heat was a floor furnace in between the living room and the hall to the kitchen and one small wall furnace in the laundry room. I replace the floor furnace with a gas fireplace and ran a gas line from the laundry room to my sons' room to hook up a wall furnace in there. Since half of my windows were painted shut I put some window units in the house to provide A/C.
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Other than two gas fired furnaces with electric blowers, our house is total electric, two AC systems, electric kitchen plus other plug in stuff and after a week without power once, I decided to have the generator system installed and glad I did. Two summers ago it ran for 5 days 24/7 and never failed to give us all the power we needed. Not for everyone I know, but if you have a portable, make sure it's well ventilated when running! It's a tragedy how some folks have died from trapped exhaust fumes getting into the house. PJ