[Grovenet] Electric Heating

[Mary DeLoria, CP]

My husband Bruce and I are just finishing building our house, and have a
little experience in this area. 

We installed Cadet heaters 'vacation' or 'fill-in' heaters on thermostats in
our house, and like them just fine. Bruce found them easy to install. 

In the bathroom, and also under the kitchen sink cabinet, we installed
toe-kick heaters, also on thermostats. In the bathroom, we'll likely nudge
its thermostat up a bit if we want the heater to come on if the morning's
cold. That warm air on the toes is nice!! 

Our primary heat source is wood pellet, with a wood cookstove with a water
reservoir as an emergency back-up. 

We also installed a whole house fan system on a thermostat and a separate
fan system on a timer that pulls from the master bathroom, utility room, and
kitchen from a motor installed in the attic, controlled timers in each of
the three locations. So quiet that you can't hear it running - I really like
it. We really need fans, as we're on the rainy side of the coast range. 

Hope this helps,

Mary DeLoria 

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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:31:25 -0700
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Any advice on electric heating? We're adding a couple of bedrooms, bath and
eating nook and do not want to tie them into our forced-air gas furnace.

The electrician suggested "cadet" heaters. Any comments on those?

And what about the bathroom? I don't like those heat lamp bulbs.

Thanks. --Martha K.