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Posted by Al Bundy on August 28, 2006, 12:31 am
> I'm trying to figure out how to solve an issue with an 1800s barn here
> in vermont that is my home. The water comes into the house into the
> unheated, un-insulated basement (where the cows used to live). Floors
> are dirt, barn wood walls. There is a room for the water pipes,
> insulated, cement floor, and with an electric water heater in the room,
> blanketed. Upstairs is the living part of the barn, heated with wood
> stove heat in the winter.
> I've been paying a rental fee for the hotwater heater for years, and
> more than half of my kwh use is from the water heater.
> The water heater has been helpful in that it helps add heat to the
> water room in the winter and aids in preventing the pipes from
> freezing. I also have a fan that vents heat from the upstairs bathroom
> down to the water room. And I have anelectric space heater that is on
> a thermostat in the water room. It gets to 20 below zero in the winter
> here.
>
> I don't want to continue to pay a rental cost for an old water heater.
> I can purchase the heater for $100, but that seems a waste, given how
> old the heater is (over 15 years). I use wood heat over 6 months of
> the year.
>
> *Should I get rid of the downstairs water heater and figure on heating
> the room via the space heater only. (any other good ideas?)
> *Does an on demand water heater make sense? Or a tank water heater
> that I can heat part of the year via my woodstove? I only need hot
> water for a shower and sink. I don't use hot water for the laundry.
>
No info to contribute. Lived in the Colchester/Essex Jct area for a
couple of decades though...
> It gets to 20 below zero in the winter here.
In a hot spot ehhhh??? At least you aren't in the NE Kingdom.
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