| Always make sure you have someone you can trust who can look in on the house to guard against a freeze up. Otherwise, no matter WHAT heat you have, if it malfunctioned (as Murphy is good at choosing his most opportune moment), that would not be good. You maybe can get 20-30 below there? It is either that or if you went away on an extended trip, you'd have to drain out and blow out everything and antifreeze treat drain traps. A pain. You could set up space heaters in key locations, but it is scary to me to leave space heaters going unattended. And heat taping every single pipe and fixture is not hardly feasible, especially in walls.
Conventional heat source (even propane wall vent heater + friend to look in on, is something to consider.
Electric hardwired baseboard heaters could be done also, if you had available amp service. But the propane heater would be most reliable perhaps in case a blizzard or fallen tree limb took out electric service. |