Marilyn and I live in the house I grew up in. This house has never had a furnace, just heating stoves of some sort. Here in Iowa fuel oil was the cheapest heat in the 50’s and 60’s. Propane was more expensive and electric heat was almost non existent. .15 per gallon was about right. When I was growing up we heated with an oil burner upstairs and a wood stove in the basement. Dad had a young son (me) who would saw and split wood by hand and carry it to the basement for free so the wood burner was kept pretty hot. The cook stove in the kitchen was kept hot too as long as the young son could haul in the cobs, once again for free. That was in the days of no insulation and drafty old windows. Some time in the late 60’s the cook stove went into storage along with the wood burner and another oil stove went in the basement. Fuel oil was still a little cheaper than propane at that time because fuel oil had more BTU’s per pound of fuel so they claimed. Oil burners are sooty and messy so they went out the door and were replaced with the vented propane heaters we have now. Now there is NO MORE OILY SOOT! Did I say it loud enough? LOL The gas heaters can be controlled easily with a thermostat. The pilot light is clean. We had a thermostat on one of the oil burners once but the pilot was fueled by a lower flow of fuel, with a small sooty flame burning in the pot when the thermostat shut it down. I can still hear the oil burner ticking and banging as it expanded and contracted when the thermostat turned the flame up or down.
Wood heat wasn’t used much around here for whole heat because of a lack of trees so most farmers used coal or fuel oil but today almost everyone uses propane. I do have an ambitious young neighbor who heats with wood but I question if he is saving money because of the distance he has to go to get good wood. I do give him credit for working hard to try to save a few bucks though.
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