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.
That’s fairly typical. WTF would you do in an outage?
BenPranklin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
bluewing@lemm.ee 4 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.
bluewing@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Back up generators if the expected outage is to last more than one day - and sometimes it can.
Critical_Insight@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Shiver uncontrollably.
bastion@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Woesome.