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Originally Posted by accufitgolf
Ray
That scares me some. There are still kerosene heaters which I believe are illegal in some states. Personally, I would not have one in my home.
I once had a total electric home which meant electric baseboard heaters in each room. While expensive, the nice part was each room had its own thermostat so if you dialed/played with each rooms thermostat as the room was used, you could control the cost somewhat but it was a pain going around dialing up them and down.
To the OP
I assume the home has not central AC. You might look at scrapping the present heating system entirely and installing a forced air heating/cooling system.
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Perhaps I was not clear, so I will explain a little: I am not referring to the kerosene heaters you find at the local stores, but to Toyo or Monitor heaters that run on kerosene, or natural gas, propane, heating fuel, and so on.
Lets say that electricity is more expensive than natural gas, or even heating fuel in the area where I live at, and that retrofitting all the electric heaters the way the OP wants costs around $2,000. In this case, I would leave the heaters alone, for the time being at least, and have a through the wall vented Toyo or Monitor stove that runs with the cheapest fuel in the area. The cost would be around $1,000 for the stove, maybe $1,500 installed, and super efficient. It still needs a little electricity use for the controls and fan, but it burns very little fuel.
Then there are very efficient wood pellet stoves, and wood stoves.
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