Another newbie with questions (hot water, hot, water)

[knoxgarden]

I love my heat pump! It keeps my condo toasty and warm for very low cost. I keep it at about 70 and turn it down when I have the oven on, it gets too hot.
I prefer the gently warmed air from the heat pump to the hot air from regular forced air. I have a lot fewer sinus problems and my skin doesn't dry out and flake off with the heat pump.
I've had gas heat, oil fired radiators and regular forced air systems and the heat pump is by far my favorite. With the others, you're either too hot when they come on and then too cold before they come on again. With the heat pump, it's a nice, steady warming.
I've moved my furniture just a bit so you don't have the air blowing on you, but that's more from the air conditioning.
I had regular forced air HVAC for the first two years I lived here before I replaced it with a heat pump and the heat pump keeps it much warmer.

[JMT]

Originally Posted by knoxgarden

I love my heat pump! It keeps my condo toasty and warm for very low cost. I keep it at about 70 and turn it down when I have the oven on, it gets too hot.
I prefer the gently warmed air from the heat pump to the hot air from regular forced air. I have a lot fewer sinus problems and my skin doesn't dry out and flake off with the heat pump.
I've had gas heat, oil fired radiators and regular forced air systems and the heat pump is by far my favorite. With the others, you're either too hot when they come on and then too cold before they come on again. With the heat pump, it's a nice, steady warming.
I've moved my furniture just a bit so you don't have the air blowing on you, but that's more from the air conditioning.
I had regular forced air HVAC for the first two years I lived here before I replaced it with a heat pump and the heat pump keeps it much warmer.

I guess it depends on the kind of house, I don't know. The first house I had up here had an electric heat pump. That first winter it got down to 9 degrees. There was absolutely nothing I could do to keep warm, and it drove me batty. The heat pump worked fine as long as the outside temp didn't get too cold, say about 25 degrees. But that was a frame house out in the country. Maybe a well insulated condo is better suited for a heat pump, I don't know.

[leonard]

Originally Posted by ButterflyGirl58

And why don't people clean their houses when they are trying to sell them, lol?

The visible mess may distract from something even worse.

[andre421]

Originally Posted by hiknapster

First of all, most homes at $50,000 are not going to be worth buying. There is either going to be something wrong or it is a VERY bad neighborhood or both. Now, if you are very good at rehab then by all means, you could POSSIBLY find something.

Try to buy as much house as you can for as much as you can. If you ever have to sell, you don't want to be in a house that is very hard to sell or that you lose money on.

However, there are a lot of very nice houses that are $80,000 to $150,000. I live in the Fountain City area. I just bought a house for $120,000.

As far as salaries go there is only one website that I trust. I have never found the others to be accurate. It shows that a RN, on average, in your area, gets paid $56,590 and one in Knoxville gets paid $53,640.

By the way, to the Detroit person, it says that Detroit nurses, on average, are paid $64,470 to $64,870. So if you move here you are going to be taking a hit of over $10,000.

We've lived in Knoxville for three years, and are from Fort Myers, FL. Love it here.

Sorry, what website do you use? I'm curious to see and love to have more accurate info

[knoxgarden]

Originally Posted by JMT

I guess it depends on the kind of house, I don't know. The first house I had up here had an electric heat pump. That first winter it got down to 9 degrees. There was absolutely nothing I could do to keep warm, and it drove me batty. The heat pump worked fine as long as the outside temp didn't get too cold, say about 25 degrees. But that was a frame house out in the country. Maybe a well insulated condo is better suited for a heat pump, I don't know.

Heat pumps are supposed to have an auxiliary heater built into the heating system. When it gets really cold, the heat pump part is supposed to shut off and the auxiliary heat kicks in. That part works just like a regular forced air system and you get hot air out of the register.
That part may not have been working right when you were so cold. Early heat pumps didn't always have that.
I had a high heating bill last January because the aux. heat was running more than it should have. There was something wrong with the electrical switch at the outside unit and it wouldn't switch back to the heat pump. Got that replaced and I'm back to it going on and off when needed. With the cold weather we've had, it's come on a few times.
Mine's electric. It cut my electric bill in half over what my old HVAC cost me.

[creeksitter]

Why doesn't someone start a thread on heating? This is a subject of interest to many who may have quit reading because they have no interest in center city bungalows.

[Bones]

Originally Posted by creeksitter

Why doesn't someone start a thread on heating? This is a subject of interest to many who may have quit reading because they have no interest in center city bungalows.

Numerous threads on heating here;

http://www.city-data.com/forum/house/

[goodbyehollywood]

My parents have a heat pump upstairs. The air blows out cold, making you miserable when it blasts down on the bed or around your legs. They have forced air downstairs and like it much better.

I installed a whole-house humidifier for my HVAC, and it does wonders for my skin, while allowing me to keep my rooms more comfortable at lower temperatures. I keep the thermostat in the low-to-mid 60s, and it stays warm and cozy. Everybody prefers different things.

[hiknapster]

Originally Posted by andre421

Sorry, what website do you use? I'm curious to see and love to have more accurate info

Duh! I meant to include the link. Thank you for asking!

Wages by Area and Occupation

[creeksitter]

I could say you all were full of hot air but then I'd get in hot water with the radiator enthusiasts. :-) .