I really think that 1500 watt quartz heater running full-time down there contributed greatly to my electric bill. And it doesn't help me downstairs keeping things from freezing. This may be true, but it just makes the electric heaters do more of the work and $$$. Theory there being your furnace will run less if at all during the season. The Eden Pure et al folks are saying to set both systems to the temp you are comfortable in and then back off the furnace five degrees. So here is my dilemma.I want to use both these systems to my best advantage. Lots of drama there because it hadn't run for yrs, but it's cookin' now OK like it used to do. OK so this yr, oil came down, I filled the tank and fired up the furnace. However, my electric bill was staggering un-insulated walls, plaster inside and no furnace working downstairs to keep things from freezing down there(used a cheap quart heater down there on low for the winter). Both work great, although the Eden Pure is grossly overrated and has some idiosyncrasies. Now to the point heating oil got so high that I went with two electric units in this small house the last three winters.
I write all this because it has to do with choices and being sour on this old system. Got that fixed and it took off, but of course had to be readjusted. So I crawled around and found a line valve that was bad and not opening fully. I suggested it was probably a supply issue, they ignored me.
Hook it back up to my line and it wouldn't run properly without tripping the relay at some point in operation. But, they argued that they could go get five gals of diesel from a station and rig it to run fine in this furnace. First they blamed the oil, so I had a oil company rep come out and test it in front of them.oil was fine. They wound up putting in a whole new Beckett gun assembly and never got it fine tuned. Local HVAC company came out and spent the entire winter fixing this unit off & on. The landlord tried to get me natural gas installed, but elected to repair the old furnace instead. The furnace is from the 60's and during a cold period in November like five yrs ago it broke down. I have a rent house with an old oil furnace, above ground tank, treated oil.
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I should say up front, this is a query about how to balance two different heating offerings and not about anything that's broken or not working properly.warning, long post.