re: #133 Joe Bacon

When I was a kid back in Pittsburgh, my dad had an old Scotch Forced Air heater in our old brick house. That heater was over 50 years old. There were days when it was so cold outside, Mom made me sit in front of the heater all the time. Felt real good on cold days to have that fan blowing dry hot air on me!

Uncle Earl would fix it when it acted up with parts he could juryrig. Eventually it died, the parts were no longer available and Dad had to splurge for a new (you guessed it!) energy-efficient heater that didn’t heat as well as the old Scotch model.

Energy-efficient heaters only work well in energy-efficient homes. Putting a new heating system in an ancient house that is not well insulated gives you a barely warm house.

Ask me how I know.