From: Mil-Veh Co. (milveh@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Sun Dec 19 2004 - 14:16:44 PST
I lived in Hawaii for many years. No need for any
sort of heating or cooling if you lived at the right
altitude. The bad part was you were in a constant
battle with rust and termites! If we stopped doing
anything to preserve cars, houses, etc., it would all
turn back to jungle in less than a 100 years and you
wouldn't even know we had been there. No kiddin,
everything breaks down over their super fast, even
reinforced concrete, asphalt, wood, cars, trucks will
rust away to nothing in 20 years if they are kept
around the ocean and not rinsed off almost daily. I
would suggest you never buy a GL truck from Hawaii,
they're rust buckets!
--- Ryan Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com> wrote:
> At 2:22 PM -0500 12/19/04, Glenn Shaw wrote:
> >Hi Wayne
> >
> >And I always though that New England weather was
> crazy. I never think of
> >Georgia and Florida in terms of 20 degree temps.
> Are home heating systems
> >even desgined to deal with that normally down
> there?
>
> Depends on the house. Usually houses are built
> pretty solid. Insulation against heat is just as
> useful against insulation against cold, so in
> addition to being cool in the summer, they can be
> pretty warm in the winter. There's not as much
> emphasis on some of the systems up north, most
> heat is natural gas or propane if you're in the
> middle of no-where (or don't want to be on the
> grid). Some houses have electric heat pumps (like
> my neighbors). Usually its a natural gas/central
> air system.
>
> My grandparents house in Albany, Ga always stayed
> nice and warm in the winter. That was a much
> older house (40's construction?). The biggest
> thing is that as you go further south, the
> greater emphesis that is placed on a good AC
> system.
> Heat is easily an afterthought.
> --
> --
> Ryan Gill rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
>
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