I live on 10 acres in rural Minnesota.
Heating my home in the winter has been miserable the last couple of years: $500+ electric bills from having to run electric heaters around the house and $3,000+ propane bills for the winter to run the furnace (which really only heats 1/2 of the house effectively).
We finally bit the bullet and are installing a wood burning stove as a primary heat source for 1/2 of our house, and it may even end up heating the entire home from the way we’re setting it up.
Being able to heat the home while the electricity is out for 12+ hours this winter (semi-regular occurrence) is seriously going to be so good for our family.
What non-electricity dependent, or more so non-electrical grid dependent, heating solutions have you all worked with to get through winter?
by Corporate_Chinchilla
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Invest more money into conservation applications. This could be in the form of adding more insulation in your attic, upgrading your windows, buying insulated exterior and interior window covers, adding an exterior or interior ‘mud room’ for each exit to act as an airlock between opening doors, close the hvac vents and doors in rooms that you aren’t using that don’t require heating, etc.
You might also look into the development and installation of passive and solar thermal regulation for your home, including interior and exterior thermal batteries.