In my duplex, living in the upper floor since heat rises, I had a natural gas fireplace with a pilot light, even in a power outage that would shut off the furnace in the basement I had heat. I bought that intentionally for that reason.
I forget what is wrong with our gas fireplace. It needs a good cleaning and servicing, which is one reason why it's on the fritz. The chimney sweeps came by and tried to inspect it, but they couldn't get the front piece off because the fancy schmnany masonry overlaps it. Don't get me started .......
Curious. Why no heat? No gas? No woodstove for backup, or just ambience,?
When Duluth got a record 36 inches of snow in 1993 I was still young enough for my girlfriend (at that time) and i to go out with our cross country skies. After a couple of hours we found a restaurant miraculously open to warm up and eat before skiing back home.
That storm was so huge and violent, it caused regional power outages. Unless you had wood heat, which we no longer have (alas), those little electric igniters on furnaces, stoves, and fireplaces don't start the gas flames. We could use a match on our gas stove, but couldn't on the furnace or gas fireplace. I do miss our woodstove at times, but most of the time, it's kind of cool to push a button. My back starts to ache every time I think of all the work I had to do to stack wood, bring it into the house, and keep the fire going all day and night. We had no furnace in the Hobbit House. Thank goodness, that house was an earth-bermed building with passive solar heat. It never got colder than 45 degrees F.
That sounds like an oops😬
Appartently OOOPS is common around these parts.
In my duplex, living in the upper floor since heat rises, I had a natural gas fireplace with a pilot light, even in a power outage that would shut off the furnace in the basement I had heat. I bought that intentionally for that reason.
I forget what is wrong with our gas fireplace. It needs a good cleaning and servicing, which is one reason why it's on the fritz. The chimney sweeps came by and tried to inspect it, but they couldn't get the front piece off because the fancy schmnany masonry overlaps it. Don't get me started .......
A nice realization about humanity shining through dumb politics.
Curious. Why no heat? No gas? No woodstove for backup, or just ambience,?
When Duluth got a record 36 inches of snow in 1993 I was still young enough for my girlfriend (at that time) and i to go out with our cross country skies. After a couple of hours we found a restaurant miraculously open to warm up and eat before skiing back home.
That storm was so huge and violent, it caused regional power outages. Unless you had wood heat, which we no longer have (alas), those little electric igniters on furnaces, stoves, and fireplaces don't start the gas flames. We could use a match on our gas stove, but couldn't on the furnace or gas fireplace. I do miss our woodstove at times, but most of the time, it's kind of cool to push a button. My back starts to ache every time I think of all the work I had to do to stack wood, bring it into the house, and keep the fire going all day and night. We had no furnace in the Hobbit House. Thank goodness, that house was an earth-bermed building with passive solar heat. It never got colder than 45 degrees F.