Comment on Price of electricity in Finland peaks at 2.35€/kWh today. Keeping my tiny granny cottage warm costs me over 50 euros for a single day. It's negative 25C (77F) outside.

• Critical_Insight@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah I have considered it. There’s just no good place for the chimney either. It would need to go thru the wall and past the eaves on either of the two sides of the building that the roof is not sloping towards to because else falling snow is going to rip it off in the winter.

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  • Chriswild@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You could heat it from a fire outside with a boiler and a radiator. I’m not sure if they have those for sale in Finland but they’re a thing in the US.

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  • bastion@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s fairly typical. WTF would you do in an outage?

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    • Critical_Insight@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Shiver uncontrollably.

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      • bastion@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Woesome.

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    • BenPranklin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I hear this a lot since we converted to hear pumps. People don’t realize basically every heat source these days other than wood needs electricity. We kept our oil system as a backup for very cold days but it also doesn’t work with no power.

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      • bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There are cheap ways to run a backup heat source. I installed a generator, which makes sense for my very rural location. But before the whole house automatic genset, I used a $100US switch that would allow me to run my LP furnace on a small portable generator. All the furnace requires is 110/120VAC to operate. Something cheaply and easily supplied by a small gasoline powered portable for less than $500US.

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    • bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Back up generators if the expected outage is to last more than one day - and sometimes it can.

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  • ansiz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I know it’s not uncommon for the chimney to go through the eaves for more support, if that’s an option for you. I know someone in Alaska with a tiny house that did something like that, with a wall mounted tiny stove and it was pretty impressive!

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