Not disturbing but just factual. I perhaps should have a look. We live at the shore for part of the year basically. We do not use electric heating at home.

It seems odd that the kilowatt hours used per month at the cottage are only half of what is consumed at home. When we are there full time.

Odd because we have about the same appliances at both places. Other than the freezer at home is larger by a substantial amount. Also the wife did not want a dishwasher at the cottage. Still I cannot see that consuming that much more.

Heat pumps are quickly replacing the burning of any type of fossil fuel in homes locally. Very quickly now.

One son in law just getting into the refrigeration business and is working long days. His phone at home is ringing pretty steadily as well. He just cannot do anything for the callers as he is working for a local company.

I am going to suggest he could do some auto air conditioning. When things are quieter as his employer is not in that area of the business. He cannot claim any conflict exists then.

One thing that has always bothered me. Why where heat pumps sold for all those years in Europe and the orient before really appearing here? Part of it of course may have been the cheap fuel oil in America.

Even in Canada when my father had an oil furnace installed all those years ago. Two hundred gallons of fuel oil was 19.00. Now it varies or floats pricewise from around eight hundred to eleven hundred for two hundred gallons.


The cost of natural gas once fairly priced is now seen as a much greater profit center by sellers locally . At the same time our province produces it and sells it to the eastern seaboard of America. Probably cheap as well.


One thing I have noticed. The sloped ceilings in the main area of the cottage start at twelve feet and go to 19 feet. We have two large fans hung at about the 16 foot level. They lower the temperature feel by about ten degrees F. This summer has been unusually hot.

I have a spare one ton split unit still in the boxes I may install it there.