RM> Plus we are helped by the insulating value of a few feet of snow,
RM> which maybe sounds funny but it's true. When I get a good layer of
RM> snow on the roof it's a lot easier to heat the house..

KW>That's true - I have a cabin up in the Sierra Nevada mountains. We
  >replaced a shingle roof that kept the snow on it with a metal roof, and
  >boy, does it get cold in there when we arrive! Last time it was 22
  >degrees outside and 17 inside. It never seemed that cold with the old
  >roof on it - but it does save me from having to shovel snow off when it
  >gets over 10 feet of snow on it!

Wow.. 10 feet.. I get a little nervous here when I get 3 or 4 feet
of snow on the roof. I usually don't get that much on the house
since it's heated but the out buildings can get that much..

KW>I brought a Mr. Heater up there - a heater head that screws onto a
  >propane tank. Crack a door open and run it, and I can get the cabin to
  >60 in 2 hours.

I've been thinking about something similar when my electric heaters
can't quite keep up or when the power goes out. I was hoping to find
something a little bigger but still semi-portable that runs on propane
that could be fairly easily vented to the outside to avoid that whole
'open door' thing..    B)

I need something like that so rarely I haven't looked into what's
available too closely yet. We did lose power for 27 hours early
this winter which got me thinking about that again, but that was
the first time in probably 20 years the power has gone off for
more than 2 to 5 hours, and that only happend once a year or so.

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