Winter?

[Wolferz]

Originally Posted by swamprat69er

You also live where the coal is cheap. That helps.

From what I hear, if the Chinese keep buying it up to run their foundries, that could change.

[swamprat69er]

Originally Posted by reallydedpoet

Invested in two heat pumps this past year, has cut our heating bill almost in half.

How is your hydro bill?

[Wolferz]

Originally Posted by swamprat69er

How is your hydro bill?

Zero. Except for the few pennies of electricity it takes to pump it out of the ground.

Edit: Doh! You're talking about electricity, eh?
I don't get my power from Hydro One like you do. So I didn't know what you were referring to until I looked it up. Solid proof that one's IQ can only be accurately measured by where you happen to be standing at the time.
My electric bills run around $200.00 a month. It would be cheaper if my stepson wouldn't stay up all friggin night! Plus, we have baseboard electric heat on the main floor. The coal stoker only supplements that heat by warming the basement and the floors. The coal stove operates off a thermostat placed @ half way up the basement steps, controlling the feed and the convection fans according to temperature. It actually heats the house well enough that the electrics rarely come on. Towards the end of January I ran out of coal and the wife waited a few days before calling the supplier and we had to run the electrics for a couple of weeks during that polar vortex.
Women! Can't live with' em, can't depend on' em, can't kill' em.

[swamprat69er]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

Zero. Except for the few pennies of electricity it takes to pump it out of the ground.

Edit: Doh! You're talking about electricity, eh?
I don't get my power from Hydro One like you do. So I didn't know what you were referring to until I looked it up. Solid proof that one's IQ can only be accurately measured by where you happen to be standing at the time.
My electric bills run around $200.00 a month. It would be cheaper if my stepson wouldn't stay up all friggin night! Plus, we have baseboard electric heat on the main floor. The coal stoker only supplements that heat by warming the basement and the floors. The coal stove operates off a thermostat placed @ half way up the basement steps, controlling the feed and the convection fans according to temperature. It actually heats the house well enough that the electrics rarely come on. Towards the end of January I ran out of coal and the wife waited a few days before calling the supplier and we had to run the electrics for a couple of weeks during that polar vortex.
Women! Can't live with' em, can't depend on' em, can't kill' em.

Sorry for the confusion. The way you say 'eh' at the end of a sentance I thought you might be a misplaced Canadian. I forgot that down there in the sunny, snowy south you call hydro electricity 'electric'.
My 'electric' bills were $100.oo+/- $20.oo twenty years ago. Now they are $196.oo/month. I heat with wood almost exclusively and when the wood stove upstairs in the main part of the house goes out, then the oil furnace kicks in. I also have a wood stove in the basement. One winter I tried heating totally with the oil furnace.....$3,000.oo later I never tried that again. Firewood costs me $2,000.oo/season, cut, split and delivered.
If I was 30 years younger, then would go with a heat pump and probably see a return on my investment, eh?

[Wolferz]

...the Great White North and I kind of picked up on the lingo a bit.
I paid my first visit to your country before I was even born and I've been back many times since. I've always enjoyed my brief stays.
I take it your power supplier generates via Agua and gravity. Mine comes from fission just over a neighboring ridge.
Fuel oil boiler? Heaven forbid!

[swamprat69er]

Hydro One uses nuclear energy, now. The 'fuel oil' boiler is just a forced air hot air furnace.
during the times that we stupid Ontarions don't use enough electricity to suit Hydro One, they (HO) give it away to Michigan and New York states and we Ontarions pay through the nose for it. Win, win for the hydro company. Lose, lose for the rest of us.

[ReallyDedPoet]

Originally Posted by swamprat69er

How is your hydro bill?

In January of this year our bill was $350.00 Canadian. That is two heat pumps, domestic electricity and an electric hot water heater. Very happy with them.

[Wolferz]

Let's face it guys, winter SUCKS!

Really cold winters SUCK double. Because it sucks all your money out of your wallet.

[swamprat69er]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

Let's face it guys, winter SUCKS!

Really cold winters SUCK double. Because it sucks all your money out of your wallet.

That is why I pray for lots of snow. When the temps are below zero F, very seldom does it snow. The temperature must warm up to snow.

[BrucePartington]

The Winter/Spring equinox took place today. Days are now growing bigger than nights.

It's been a harsh Winter. It rained so much and for so long here, I thought I was living in Asia during monsoon season. Even thought of growing rice in my backyard.
Spring is very welcome.
Cheers

[swamprat69er]

Originally Posted by BrucePartington

The Winter/Spring equinox took place today. Days are now growing bigger than nights.

It's been a harsh Winter. It rained so much and for so long here, I thought I was living in Asia during monsoon season. Even thought of growing rice in my backyard.
Spring is very welcome.
Cheers

I think they are doing that in Somerset.

[Armistead]

Yet another possible bad winter storm for us starting Monday...I hope not.

http://www.ncpiedmontweather.com/201...ikely-324-325/

[swamprat69er]

Pray for snow! None of that freezing rain crap.

[swamprat69er]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

I paid my first visit to your country before I was even born

Oh!No! You Dad wasn't one of the guys I partied with in Yorkville, was he?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by swamprat69er

I think they are doing that in Somerset.

LOL