Heating

dogwalker009's picture
Tue, 12/28/2010 - 16:33
by dogwalker009

A chum of mine has one of these park homes and although it is all well insulated even he said it is taking some keeping warm in this cold weather.

He told me he has gas heating and part of it is electric. He said to me that the price of gas was damn costly as well and that he had seen the heating oil post on the forum or more to the point after he had seen it via my laptop.

I did say that would it not take a lot more to heat a park home up and he said no not really it is just that it has been really cold and the only difference is that the price of gas is a killer and the electric so it looks like we are all feeling the cold a bit more this year.

So it just goes to show that no matter what type of property you have if it is blooming cold then you are going to have to really pay to heat it or stay cold.

letthestressbegin2010's picture
Wed, 01/05/2011 - 17:57
by letthestressbeg...

It has been rather cold this winter. The price of logs is crazy as well as electric and gas. I have a gas fire, two convector heaters and an oil filled heater to try and keep my place warm.

I have even gone as far as putting them on plug in timers so when I come in there is a bit of warmth otherwise the place is so called and takes so long to get warmed up.

On the subject of park homes I spoke to someone last year and they said that they had one large gas bottle and that lasted months it did in keeping theres warm so like the above says if it is normal cold then it is not so bad but when it has been as cold as it has just lately then we are all going to feel it even more.

Mark

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