How do you heat your house?

[metron07]

Well I can't speak for the rest of the US but in SoCal we have what is called "central air" and it's an electrical unit that is attached to your house or apartment and you have ducts as Billybob said running through out your house and you can blow hot or cold (AC) air into them. Everything built in the 80's and beyond pretty much have this system.

We have pretty much the same thing here in Orlando but we also have a fireplace in the center of the house who's heat is also sent through the A/C vents. The dry hot air wreaks havoc with my nose and my wife and I frequently get sick from it. Fortunately we only have to deal with it for a few months in this part of Florida but it's nice to feel a change of season however brief.

[MouseSlayer]

i'm in Las Vegas and cooling is our issue out here but i have yet to use the heater(natural gas). i'm still cooling with the swamp cooler(wet pads with air blown through them) to get the temp down to 75F although at night when it reaches 60 the house stays warmer than the outside air. maybe it's all the electronics?

[ElfManDan]

Back in my home town before moving off to college my family has been using a pellet stove for years. It really does produce a lot of heat and can heat up our whole house in just a few hours.

We buy the large bags of pellets from out of town. Usually getting about 50 to 100 bags every trip, they last quite a while. We also found that we can use the pellets for kitty liter at my mother's veterinary hospital, it's much cheaper then buying standard kitty liter. So the pellets are double purpose in my family.

[Feathers]

Wow, much more variety than here then.

I have radiators as I said (house built in the mid-30s and not bombed during WW 2) but so do my parents and theirs was built in the late 90s (I think).

I don't think UK building style has changed much since then.

[jedijeff]

I live in Northern Canada, we use forced air with gas powered furnaces and vents. Just like Rico said for Michigan, 6 months of the year we need heat.

[Meds]

Yeah i'm moving into a 70's build. We have gas central heating via radiators. And an electric fire. Cavity wall insulation and the entire loft is padded. Nice and toasty. I live in shorts and the wife lives in jumpers.