My husband, George, as well as I grew up in the northeast! Every one of us are accustomed to seriously cold weather, and for about more than five weeks, we experience temperatures well below zero, feet of snow as well as brutal winds, but our beach house up north is equipped with a forced air gas oil furnace.
Although it’s a fairly up-to-date as well as high-efficiency heater, the cost of heating makes up about half of our utility bills.
Every one of us try to compensate by getting by with open windows as well as box fans in the summer, we’ve never made the investment into central a/c. Every one of us simply deal with the heat as well as humidity for those few summer time weeks as well as used to dread the coming of Winter every year. Once we finally retired from our jobs, we started looking for a holiday beach house down south. Every one of us were angry with shoveling snow, being trapped in the beach house all Winter as well as depending on a oil furnace to keep warm, as we toured different houses, we discovered that houses are much different in the south. None of them included a basement or insulated windows… The ground is nothing but sand as well as palm trees grow in the gardens. The greatest difference between our beach house in the north as well as the one we bought in the south is actually the HVAC system. Our holiday beach house doesn’t include any type of gas furnace. There’s only a/c as well as the air duct is gigantic. The diameter of the ducts is so wide that I could crawl inside. Although the a/c is particularly old, it provides a tremendous amount of cool air! It handles the excessive heat as well as keeps the beach house nice as well as cool.
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