I'm being nosy - how do you heat your home (forced air, hot water radiator, vindaloo, etc) and do you have a fireplace? Vegas need not answer.....
I ask because I spent an evening at a party the other night that had an enormous fireplace. I spent the entire evening sat in front of it feeling very snug. And on christmas day I'll be at the in-laws again sat in front of a giant fireplace. I don't have a fireplace of any kind in my home, though at my wife's camp in the Adirondacks there is a beautiful woodstove. When we move again in a few years we'd like it to be the last time we do so - and at that point I want a fireplace or woodstove. It just seems right to me - I had one in every house I lived in growing up. Now I have forced air set at 68 degrees. Not quite the same really and robs my home of a focal point.
Any photos would be fantastic. Maybe I could just leave the photo on the laptop screen on christmas day and pretend it's a fireplace.
lol Here we have a fire place and forced air. Is nice in the winter getting the logs to burn etc. Don't have coal down here lol
We have a fireplace in our new house. Bloody hard to get decent wood delivered tho - $120-180 a cord and it's 'wet' with sap still so hard to burn. Luckily we had a load left at our old house where we had a woodstove. I love sitting in front of the fire warming my tootsies. We had nothing but fireplaces the first 4 years of my life then parents had central heating put in.
Here we have (oil) forced air in one part of house, electric things on skirting boards in living room and back bedroom (which is an addition) which I refuse to turn on cos it will be like having the kettle on 24 hours a day and the meter will be whirring round so we use the fireplace all day long in the living room and it's gorgeous. I never thought I would enjoy cleaning out the ashes and lighting a fire! Hubby does it most days so that's prob why I enjoy it! grin
Central heating and central air with a big noisy stove in the basement.
Oil furnace and hot water radiators. This system seems to have been put in when the last extension was added in 1923. I have a fireplace that had no damper, and the only thing we could do was to add a chimney top damper.
We found that although the fire makes the room very snug, there is a net loss of heat throughout the house because there are no doors on this one and nothing would look right against the fieldstone. A lot of warm air goes up the chimney.
I have to admit that the gas fire places are convenient.
I don't want to post pictures of my house because someone might steal them for an avatar.
We are exactly as you are bungle forced hot air, no fireplace and I really miss having one. I am still trying to talk hubby into having one put in but I can't see it happening any time soon.
I don't have a fireplace either. I thought it wouldn't matter as I've never actually lit a fire though had a fireplace.
But putting up the Christmas tree next to no fire place and not being able to hang our stockings up over the fireplace sort of bugged me this year. Not to mention the fact I always thought it would come in handy should the price of natural gas suddenly skyrocket.............
Forced heat/air regards.....
I have hot water baseboard rads throughout the house.
A very small woodstove in the basement that we have been burning this year for the first time in the 4 we've been here.
I also had a LP gas stove installed in the kitchen which has a nice look and throws out some heat.
When we first moved in there was an arger woodstove hooked up in the kitchen but it leaked so we had had to pull it out.
I've got GFA and a gas fireplace. It's one of those Heat'N'Glo fireplaces that pretends to be real but doesn't really fool anyone.
I cleaned the fireplace out last week - vacuumed up all the old glowing ember stuff and put some new embers in on a bed of fake ash so now when the gas flame comes on, it has a nice glow beneath the fake logs.
It's ok but I think the gas fireplaces my parents had in Britain were more economical (no pilot light left on all the time) and had better control (six or seven settings to my dial setting that just varies the height of the flame).
Then again, mine comes on at the flick of a switch and has remote control inputs - there's a fan underneath the fireplace too but I don't really understand the point of it and have never bothered turning it on.
We have hot water radiators. There are fireplaces in the living room (used frequently) and family room (no longer in use as we've put a projector screen above it).
Love open fires, but hate cleaning 'em out the next morning.
Still pleasantly surprised how nice and warm wooden houses stay in the winter grin
We have electric baseboard heaters in every room but they are so darned expensive to run. We have a wonderful Jotul woodstove in the basement which is so warm and cosy AND manages to heat the whole house! It's just a different kind of heat - much better than electric, plus if we get a power outage we can still be warm and boil a kettle for a brew. Nice!
Debs x smile
We have electric baseboard heaters which we rarely use. The main reason being that we live in a condominium apartment and even without any heating the place never goes below 65F.
We do however have a nice gas fireplace that has a realistic log effect. It has a recirculating fan and the output is 25,000BTU. It is the only heating we require and because the cost of the gas is part of the condo fee, it's no extra cost.
We have two old chimneys in the house but they're bricked up. So we used a noisey forced air furnace.
We have oil forced air and a wood-stove in the sitting room. We used to have an open fire, but it made the house really dusty, so we switched to a stove, which throws out more heat, and burns less wood.
The home is only 8 years old it has gas c/h and fireplace .
clean and efficent but i miss my REAL brick fireplace that was the highlight of the family room in our last home .