Originally Posted By: HerbG
This topic brought back a lot of memories from my youth when we heated our home with a couple of fireplaces and a laundry heater! For the uninitiated, a full coal scuttle is heavy when you are six and the coal pile is 50 feet from the house. It's gonna be one heck of an emergency before I want to do any heating with coal!

Anyway.........a search under "heating with coal" on Google will yield a ton of information on the topic.


If you need heat in the winter, you will decide to do what is needed for it right away for your family. Or at least I would.


I think the point is to put in a fuel system that will allow you to have a reserve to allow you to have heat when needed.

I think propane (extra tanks and keeping them topped off) would be a very good way of having a buffer. But coal or wood could also work.

There is no wrong answers to this, but each heating option has to be thought out and you have to come up with a workable system before the disruption.

I like propane, but without electricity a propane fired furnace will not work. You would need to have a few of those wall heaters (the vent less kind) that work without electricity.

Coal & wood also work without electricity.
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