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I recommend Paul Bertini in Avery:
https://www.yelp.com/biz/bertini-mechanical-avery-2He did our 2-zone furnace a couple years ago and still stops by occasionally. Great guy.
Although I love our gas furnace, it does need electricity to run the fan. It’s great that we can turn it up remotely from our phone. It’s super convenient, and yet…
We still use our wood stoves a lot, and I recommend keeping yours, too. The stove is a different kind of heat, a nice radiative cozy heat that makes you warm when you stand in front of it, makes all the surfaces like floors and counters warm in the room, and dries off all the wet clothes around it. We’ve cooked on it once in awhile. And of course, as others mentioned, it is absolutely vital during a power outage.
Warm air is convenient, but a real wood burning fire feels amazing.
The last time I checked a gas stove for heat was pretty expensive, and I agree, if you are an occasional resident it’s better to have a heat source that wasn’t dependent on power
Thanks! This caught me by surprise yesterday, glad they had the road crew out today to slow people down.
Sorry, I don’t have a recommendation for a contractor but I suggest that you NOT get rid of your wood stove. If you lose power you are not going to have any heat. We made the mistake of putting in a “Fireplace Extraordinaire” which is a wood burning insert but requires a fan (electric) to make it work properly. Sure wish we had just put in a free standing wood stove for those rare times that the power is out for days. You get a bit of heat by opening the doors but certainly not enough to keep the cabin warm.
Hi all
After long last we are planning to finish up the conversion from electric baseboards to a propane central heat system. Had the propane lines connected some 17 years ago, but moved away and just didn’t finish the project.
Back to the area now and we’re interested in putting in a propane central heat system (very small square footage but good access) and removing the current wood stove to replace with a gas firelog insert.
Will definitely be contacting Ebbetts Pass Gas for a quote, but does anyone else have a contractor they’ve been happy with doing this type of conversion?
Thanks folks.
One thing to add about my ISP/Ooma – is that AT&T provided a battery backup for my uverse modem so that when the power goes out, I still have internet
we just drain the water heater and our pipes every time we leave during the winter months…no math required, thank heavens!
Since mid-December until first part of January we have had such bad feedback/static on our AT&T landline that I thought I needed to replace our phone. Could this be from the rain storms and the flooding? I called our cabin recently and got our recording, sounded clear but who knows what the real status is of the landline. I agree that anyone living full time needs an old phone that doesn’t require electricity to operate. We have a great retro desk dial phone that always works even when the power is out. It’s very handy when you want to call PG&E to see how long the outage will be or to report an outage…can’t do that with a cell phone.
@nkruse
Ooma is voice over internet just like Comcast, voyage, etc. It also requires AC power. I have a skype #, which is even cheaper than ooma which I can use in a pinch if we happen to have power and internet.
With an old fashioned hard-wired princes touch tone phone, we almost always have phone service through ATT independent of power or internet status. As full time residents, that is important.@nkruse
Ooma is voice over internet just like Comcast, voyage, etc. It also requires AC power. I have a skype #, which is even cheaper than ooma which I can use in a pinch if we happen to have power and internet.
With an old fashioned hard-wired princes touch tone phone, we almost always have phone service through ATT independent of power or internet status. As full time residents, that is important.Yay! We finally have our phone back!
FYI, the reason we have ATT landline is because over the last 11 years ATT has been far more reliable than Comcast. All other alternatives to ATT that I am aware of rely on an internet connection which has been unavailable at least 10 times as frequently, and for much longer spans of time than ATT (except this recent incident).Why pay $40 a month for your phone? I use Ooma it is much cheaper. You buy the Ooma Telo device one time and all you pay is taxes a fees monthly on your credit card after that.
Total taxes and fees for 95223 zip code is: $4.28 a month for your monthly phone bill.
The Ooma Telo device -( the device that you plug into your router) is $90 at Best Buy with free two day shipping.
If you want to use some fancy features you can subscribe to their premier service
Ooma will port your existing phone number or you can get a new one
Annual AT&T phone bill ($40 a month) – $480
Annual Ooma phone bill – $51Annual savings $428 by using Ooma instead of AT&T.
Installation is easy.
