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Post by refugeepea on Mar 17, 2018 19:27:58 GMT
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Post by myshelly on Mar 17, 2018 19:30:41 GMT
Electric. It’s the same machine as the AC and you can switch it back and forth on the thermostat. Interesting. I've know of apartments with electric baseboard heat, but I've never known anybody who had it for a house. The apartments cost a lot more to heat than gas did This isn’t baseboard heat. It comes out the overhead vents, just like AC does. It’s the only thing I’ve ever had. It’s one reason I don’t get it when people make such a big deal about switching to the heater or turning on the heater for the first time. Here it’s just flipping a switch. It’s the same as turning a light on or off. And it’s just as easy to switch back to AC.
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Post by freecharlie on Mar 17, 2018 19:34:46 GMT
Interesting. I've know of apartments with electric baseboard heat, but I've never known anybody who had it for a house. The apartments cost a lot more to heat than gas did This isn’t baseboard heat. It comes out the overhead vents, just like AC does. It’s the only thing I’ve ever had. It’s one reason I don’t get it when people make such a big deal about switching to the heater or turning on the heater for the first time. Here it’s just flipping a switch. It’s the same as turning a light on or off. And it’s just as easy to switch back to AC. we have natural gas and like you, I press a button the thermostat to switch from a.c. to heat. I've never lived somewhere where you would have to fill the tank like some people around here.
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Post by freecharlie on Mar 17, 2018 19:35:39 GMT
in our town you aren't allowed to park them on the road unless they are actively being hooked up. People pretend to have them hooked up so they can park them there. It irritates me
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 17, 2018 22:48:44 GMT
how else do you heat if there is no gas or propane? Electric. It’s the same machine as the AC and you can switch it back and forth on the thermostat. I think part of it is you live where it’s warm most of the year. You probably don’t need to turn on the heat in your house as much as someone who lives where it gets to be -20°F for three weeks straight, and natural gas is much cheaper to heat a house than electric is at least where I live.
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Post by bigbundt on Mar 18, 2018 15:04:37 GMT
We were the house with the lights up all year. I had a neighbor make a nasty comment, but not one of them asked why ? Well husband was off his feet with a bulging disc that was really bad. ( this was the first one 20 years ago). I could not take the lights off the house myself, and we had no extra money to do it. It really would have been nice if somebody stopped by to help me take those lights off. I stopped helping neighbors with anything after that. I would't make a nasty comment but I honestly don't know how to approach a neighbor I've never met and ask why they haven't taken down a wreath or offer to help take it down coming off like an asshole. I think even if I knew a neighbor, it would come off passive aggressive. And we've been burned offering help. In our old house, the older man across the street was on crutches and had a hard time just getting up his front steps let alone mowing. My DH offered to mow it when he did ours, free of charge. Declined. One time it was really bad and the man was in the hospital so my DH just mowed the front yard and the guy came over and yelled at us. The neighbor on one side had very bad weeds that would jump into our yard which my DH meticulously maintained so he offered to treat her yard when he did ours, free of charge (which is not cheap). Basically told us hell no. So I understand why people don't offer up help automatically without a specific request. IMHO if you have time to hang a wreath on your front door, you have time to take it down again afterwards. But each to their own excuses. I agree. I switched out my St. Patrick's wreath/garden flag for Easter this morning. Took a minute and needed no additional tools or ladders. So I don't really get it.
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Post by bigbundt on Mar 18, 2018 15:21:31 GMT
I would like to ask my neighbor: 1) What she does she do with her trash 2) What does she eat 3) Where does she store her lawn mower
Why? 1) We've lived here over a year and have seen her take out trash once. We aren't stalking her, I am a SAHM and my DH works from home and his office overlooks her driveway/backyard so we notice her comings and goings throughout the day.
2) We've never seen her or her son bring groceries into her house and they don't get packages or food delivered.
3) She has a push mower she uses but she doesn't open her garage door* to take it out or put it back. Her house is on the slab so she doesn't have storage under her house. There is nothing in her backyard but a flat concrete patio that is always empty. The mower is not stored on the other side of her house. We think she either stores it in her house or rolls it through the house to the garage?
* The garage door opener works because we've seen it up ONE time. Apparently she was keeping a pit bull in there we had no clue about. Animal control came and took the dog which is why she opened the door. It was also the only time we saw her take garbage bags out of her house. The garage was very bare so I don't why she doesn't park her car in there now. She and her son park their cars in the driveway and walk in the front door.
Anyway, she's very odd and not very friendly so we just ignore each other.
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Post by mallie on Mar 18, 2018 15:30:22 GMT
I would ask my neighbors:
1. Why do you have a dog if you keep leaving the door open and it escapes all the damn time? And then you come around, crying about your missing dog. At least once a week. Dog is going to get hit by a car, stolen, shot, etc. 2. Why does it bother you so damn much that my dd occasionally parks her car partly in front of your yard? It's a public street and each available space in front of a house here is only one car length wide. Sometimes, yes, she will need to park in front of your house. Get over it. Parking your car in front of our house in retaliation when you have one car with a 2 car garage and a wide driveway merely puts your car at risk of being damaged or stolen.
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