Heating question [View all]
We live in an older wood frame home (~85 years). The insulation's not terrible, and the first floor stays pretty warm even with the furnace on 66 or 68.
The basement is semi-finished, with a concrete floor and cinder block walls, and it can get pretty chilly down there. The front room is enclosed with a door, and this is where the water pipe enters the home, so we often run our electric space heater in there to prevent freezing. This is also sort of my "cave" and my workshop, so I don't mind using the heater in there.
Would it be worthwhile to run our kerosene heater in the basement to raise the ambient temperature? Would this help with the rest of the house?
It's not urgent--we can make do with the way we've been going anyway, and I don't mind wearing an extra sweatshirt in the cooler months. But several people have advised us to put the kerosene heater down there, and they've been positively amazed that we weren't doing this already.
Thoughts?
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