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Posted by dpb on September 29, 2006, 10:22 am
TH wrote:
> I am looking for a not electric space heater that will keep the cellar of
> our vacation home above freezing during periods of -20 degrees f.. Upstate
> NY. We normally leave the oil fired central heating system (hot air) on and
> set to 58 degrees for the winter. And that is fine. We are away from the
> home for periods of up to 6 weeks at a time. Power failures and furnace
> mis-firings (one in the past three years, had a neighbor press the reset-
> service tech could not find an issue) make me somewhat worried about the
> home. While I drain the plumbing each time we leave during the winter, I am
> not comfortable letting the structure itself go below freezing in the event
> of a power or furnace failure. Power has been out for up to two weeks in the
> past. (A 100 year storm but those are coming a bit more often now) . If the
> basement is kept 55 degrees or so, I think that the rest of the well
> insulated home should not suffer a hard freeze.
> Propane is available and delivered on a regular basis.
How large and is the cellar finished and how? There are many
propane-fueled heaters that could be used, but have no clue as to how
much one might need based on such limited information.
Personally, if there is no water to freeze I see no problem. If the
house is heated anyway it seems quite unlikely to have an interior
space get below maybe 20F even during a cold snap. Unless there is
actually something being stored there that would actually be harmed,
the temperature change in the structure itself would be of no harm.
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