Whenever I'm in an oil-fired house I always detect that wee guff of oil as the thermo. cuts in and it reignites.
>When I lived in Edmonton, my house was gas heated. Here in Toronto, many houses that are or were oil have been switching to gas. Mine has always been gas. I imagine there are still lots of oil heated homes, but I think they are probably far in the minority. One guy I know switched over years ago to a heat pump, and he kept getting calls from the gas company telling him they wanted to come and check his meter because it seemed to be broken.
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>>What is the most common source for heat up there? Is it gas and oil? I remember the cold winters in Wisconsin. Granted this was many years ago, but back then everyone mostly had oil heat to keep warm. I knew several families who lived in basement houses in the winter...
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- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.