How cold was your basement/arcade yesterday?

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With the (-20) degrees Fahrenheit it was yesterday morning outside my basement was a balmy 45 degrees Fahrenheit. Needless to say I wasn't in my basement much yesterday. And I have a bunch of stuff I need to get ready for sale too! My basement is unheated except for one air vent in the duct work that is there just to keep it from getting below freezing. Winter is a pretty miserable time for me.
 
Without two 1500W heaters(only running both at 750w), about 40-45F... with the heaters in the 60-65F range.

-Jeff
 
Mine's fully heated and has a sweet fireplace in the corner. It stays at 65 without the fireplace, 75-80 with it on for an hour or more.
 
It was 10° outside yesterday morning. In my basement (arcade) it was 70° :)
I want to take this opportunity to thank all the dinosaurs that died in order to provide me with the oil to heat my house this winter. Thank you very much.
 
Mine is...well, it's my bedroom. All minis & one cocktail.

It was pretty toasty. But that's not hard to accomplish when your average temp in January is close to 70 degrees. :D

**pelted with iceballs** Ow.
 
Cold stuff! I think main basement was 58ish, the lower basement was 55, maybe 54. Brrrr!

Gotta love multilevel homes :)
 
My basement was about 65 but it is heated even though it's not finished. Now, on the other hand my gameroom is a cinderblock building with no insulation and no heating and yesterday was the first single digit day in years so I'm going to say between 15-20 degrees. Needless to say I don't get much work done in the winter. Thought about getting a torpedo heater and seeing what I can get out of warmth. Even if I can get it to 50 degrees I'll work a bunch up there. Even considered getting into that attic and insulating it and then getting some electric heaters, but then I realized that I don't like this hobby enough to blow several grand on a 12 month gameroom. Would rather spend it on more games for an 8 month gameroom.
 
Without two 1500W heaters(only running both at 750w), about 40-45F... with the heaters in the 60-65F range.

-Jeff

I have 2 1500w quartz heaters, but they don't do much unless they are pointed directly at me ;-)

Mine's fully heated and has a sweet fireplace in the corner. It stays at 65 without the fireplace, 75-80 with it on for an hour or more.

Nice! Aren't you worried about soot from the fireplace?

It was 10° outside yesterday morning. In my basement (arcade) it was 70° :)
I want to take this opportunity to thank all the dinosaurs that died in order to provide me with the oil to heat my house this winter. Thank you very much.

I am too cheap to use the furnace to heat the basement.

Cold stuff! I think main basement was 58ish, the lower basement was 55, maybe 54. Brrrr!

Gotta love multilevel homes :)

Interesting, multiple basements....
 
I had my garage insulated and I insulated my garage doors myself. Prior to the insulation I'd estimate my garage usually was around 15 degrees or so warmer than outside. If it was 20 outside, it was about 35 in the garage...

After I insulated the garage that delta increased to a good 25-30 degrees without help. If it was 20 degrees outside it was 50-55 in the garage. With just the littlest of help I maintain the garage at about 58-60 degrees...

I have 2 electric oil-radiator heaters. I usually just have one going on low (600w) set to about 1.5 (out of 5). It keeps the garage in the upper 50's. If I am going to have some folks over or want to have the baby out there a bit I'll fire both up at MEDIUM (900w each) and set em both to 5 for a while... it takes a bit of time but an hour later or so it'll be in the low 60's... then I'll kick `em both back to 1.5 or so.

Heating is the most energy-consuming thing you can do... Electric heaters on high usually consume 1,150-1,200 watts EACH HEATER. NEVER put two heaters on the same circuit.

I'd LOVE to get a nice natural gas heater installed but the costs involved outweigh the benefit frankly.

EDIT: BTW - A great way to heat the room is to run all your games at once. They DO put out heat and will heat a room. (depending on quantity of course).
 
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Nice! Aren't you worried about soot from the fireplace?

Whoa, are you visiting from the year 1892? Fireplaces are generally natural gas nowadays. No soot, fake logs, push a switch to turn them on, built in fans to circulate the heat.
 
Whoa, are you visiting from the year 1892? Fireplaces are generally natural gas nowadays. No soot, fake logs, push a switch to turn them on, built in fans to circulate the heat.

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I'd LOVE to get a nice natural gas heater installed but the costs involved outweigh the benefit frankly.

Huh? That sounds like speculation and makes no sense. My 70,000 BTU unit cost $500 + $100 to have it installed. Granted, we had the gas line run to the garage for this purpose when we built the house, but I can't imagine having a line run from the house or tank to the garage would cost that much. Being able to crank the garage to 70 degrees (in less than 5 minutes) while working on games when the outside temp is 20 below is priceless. It adds about $50 per month to the gas bill if I leave the thermostat up high, but lowering it to 50 cuts that in half. I'm only out there on the weekends, but I don't need my paint freezing.
 
My basement is unfinished and with the furnace a mere 10 feet from my games it is pretty toasty I would estimate 65-70 deg F. And luckily for us the temp skyrocketed to 30 def F so I'll be having Pina Coladas on my Tapper drink holders tonight instead of beer. :beerchug: I was considering an electric heater for the garage, but I'm waitning for an electrician to come out and give me the estimate for the 220 line I will need. My VFW gave me their smokeeter for free so I'm almost there.
 
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Whoa, are you visiting from the year 1892? Fireplaces are generally natural gas nowadays. No soot, fake logs, push a switch to turn them on, built in fans to circulate the heat.


Yeah maybe in the citys. Dont tell me I cut and split 4 cords of firewood last month for nothing.
 
My basement is at 60 today. I'd say 55-60 is as low as I've ever seen it go (probably thanks to the ground temperature staying pretty stable.)
 
Pellet stove in the basement 82 degrees peak temp average 74

I have got to get a used pellet stove, I used to sell those suckers when I was in college, they are great.

Dude you have cheap (municipal) power. Just get your self some big ass Electric heaters :) Or get primed by only playing prop cycle..

Yes, but copper for new circuits isn't cheap. I can't run the heaters and my games at the same time.
 
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