Hi Evvvveeerrryyoone,
Sorry, I can't type properly because I am sooo cold!!!
So a bit of an overview. We currently live in an old 1950/60's fibro home that is off the ground on piers (max 1.8m) with high 12ft ceilings. So lately I have been putting underfloor insulation in to stop the draft that comes through the floor boards, this has worked well and I'm almost finished but the house is still freezing!
I put in a gas line to the lounge room and we are running an old gas heater, this seems to work well for that room but the rest of the house doesn't seem to heat up at all - maybe it's too inefficient? I checked out the insulation in the roof and it doesn't look tooo old. We have decided that we should bite the bullet and get either a new gas heater or get a slow combustion heater.
One of the front rooms actually already have a corner slab where we believe there used to be a wood fire, no idea why they would have taken it out. So there is a place for one if we get it. I have a trailer and etc so I don't mind going out and getting wood, there is a place that supplies a full trailer load for $100 just down the road from us.
It would be roughly:
Gas - $1000
Woodfire - $2000+
Just after people opinions and experiences to what they think is better. Is our problem the insulation in the roof? Maybe we need to look at replacing both? I'ld rather spend more to be sure the whole house will be warm.
At the end of the day, I know a wood fire probably isn't going to increase the rent but we need to solve this heating issue. When we rent it out later, we don't want tenants leaving every year because it's too cold in winter! Some days it feels colder inside then out!!!
Cheeeeeeeerrsrsss,
Andrewwwe.
Sorry, I can't type properly because I am sooo cold!!!
So a bit of an overview. We currently live in an old 1950/60's fibro home that is off the ground on piers (max 1.8m) with high 12ft ceilings. So lately I have been putting underfloor insulation in to stop the draft that comes through the floor boards, this has worked well and I'm almost finished but the house is still freezing!
I put in a gas line to the lounge room and we are running an old gas heater, this seems to work well for that room but the rest of the house doesn't seem to heat up at all - maybe it's too inefficient? I checked out the insulation in the roof and it doesn't look tooo old. We have decided that we should bite the bullet and get either a new gas heater or get a slow combustion heater.
One of the front rooms actually already have a corner slab where we believe there used to be a wood fire, no idea why they would have taken it out. So there is a place for one if we get it. I have a trailer and etc so I don't mind going out and getting wood, there is a place that supplies a full trailer load for $100 just down the road from us.
It would be roughly:
Gas - $1000
Woodfire - $2000+
Just after people opinions and experiences to what they think is better. Is our problem the insulation in the roof? Maybe we need to look at replacing both? I'ld rather spend more to be sure the whole house will be warm.
At the end of the day, I know a wood fire probably isn't going to increase the rent but we need to solve this heating issue. When we rent it out later, we don't want tenants leaving every year because it's too cold in winter! Some days it feels colder inside then out!!!
Cheeeeeeeerrsrsss,
Andrewwwe.