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pwnedkiller OP t1_j13ixw0 wrote

Reply to comment by MumenriderPaulReed69 in Keeping track of heating oil prices in Pennsylvania by pwnedkiller

I would love to convert to a coal or wood burner stove, I’ve actually never seen a modern coal stove. UGI is taking over and I refuse to sell out to natural gas.

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Super_C_Complex t1_j13m2iy wrote

I have a natural gas heater and water heater. Neither is new or efficient. I pay maybe 50 a month during the winter for natural gas and I keep it at 74 since the house is 75 years old and drafty.

Natural gas ain't bad

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MumenriderPaulReed69 t1_j13lwkf wrote

Every year I get the company I got the stove from to clean out the stove and make sure it’s running okay. Coal has gone up a bit this year but it was still about $620 for a ton and a half of coal and that will last me the whole winter. So I couldn’t imagine paying for electric heat to the UGI bastards

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Confident_End_3848 t1_j13nsx3 wrote

Does your place have a coal cellar?

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MumenriderPaulReed69 t1_j13o1r5 wrote

I have a big wooden coal keeper out near my shed I bought off Facebook marketplace for like $60. It has a troff thing that I open into a bucket and carry it into a house. Probably fill up the stove every 3 days while it’s this cold

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Confident_End_3848 t1_j13oe8d wrote

OK, where I grew up, many people used coal and had that separate walled off space near the coal furnace to store coal.

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MumenriderPaulReed69 t1_j13oxlf wrote

No I don’t mind keeping it outside gives me a little exercise bringing the coal in

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