My house is 100% electric with a heat pump. Too much load for a generator (that I can afford and justify under the circumstances*). After watching some reviews for diesel heaters, I wonder if it would work for us for a winter outage? Or even to inexpensively add BTUs into the house to back up the heat pump when we feel like it. I could easily install a diesel heater inexpensively. Not so for a wood stove or the like.
Our plan for an extended outage would merit only heating/cooling the downstairs 500sft living room with some spillover into the 200sft utility room to keep the water lines above freezing . We'd have a small genny going to keep the fridges and freezers going, so I'd have the power required to run a diesel heater.
Am I crazy? I already tried a Little Buddy propane and a traditional kerosene convection heater but wasnt a fan of the odors.
*our power lines are all underground and power outages longer than a few hours are VERY VERY VERY rare here. Its not like our power goes down for days every year or two so I cant justify the investment of a whole house generator. If we lose power for an extended time its going to mean that a major ice storm has taken out our entire township. Or worse.
Our plan for an extended outage would merit only heating/cooling the downstairs 500sft living room with some spillover into the 200sft utility room to keep the water lines above freezing . We'd have a small genny going to keep the fridges and freezers going, so I'd have the power required to run a diesel heater.
Am I crazy? I already tried a Little Buddy propane and a traditional kerosene convection heater but wasnt a fan of the odors.
*our power lines are all underground and power outages longer than a few hours are VERY VERY VERY rare here. Its not like our power goes down for days every year or two so I cant justify the investment of a whole house generator. If we lose power for an extended time its going to mean that a major ice storm has taken out our entire township. Or worse.
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