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My experience:

Best money is spent on upping your insulation and windows to SUPER INSULATED status and installing basic inexpensive baseboard or plate/wall heaters. Put the $$ in insulation that will last indef. without maintenance.

Electric resistant heat is the BEST because it's:

the cheapest to buy,
easiest to install,
it's silent,
100% efficient,
has no moving parts,
doesn't require frequent service,
very easy to fix if it's ever needed,
It won't explode or crack and put out noxious poisonous fumes,
easy to control room by room making it very easy to monitor energy use,
reliable and doesn't degrade.
With solar it's possible to make your own electric on site

Its the best. Why settle for something of lesser quality?

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Oil or gas fired is so expensive to install and you'll always be dependent on some gas supplier to provide the fuel where the prices vary frequently. The fuel is dangerous and poisonous. The equipment frequently needs service and gas heat exchangers only last a few years.

And the heat heat pumps are also expensive to install, only work down to a set temperature, they're loud, expensive to fix and frequently need service, you almost have to have a tech to install it because of the chemicals that need to be charged.
It's nice that there are some incentives but.....

But you know, one has to choose what will work best for their situation.
I just worry that sometimes people already have a gas furnace and they are under the impression that they HAVE to re-install another gas furnace when it goes bad. They don't realize there are better options.

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The new HVAC system, I had installed a few years ago uses a heat pump as the primary heat source.Resistence heat is used as backup.The heat pump is CHEAPER to run-you aren't CREATING heat-just moving it which requires less power.The system is a Champion-the home division of York.
 
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It’s going to be a heat pump, hands-down.

Electric resistance he is the most expensive system. You can run and worst for the environment. When you consider the amount of electricity you’re burning and unless you’re 100% off the grid and could generate enough electricity, to use it, which almost no one can, I would not consider resistance electric for your primary heat.

Resistance, electric baseboards you have the smell of burning dust often when you fire them up and any system that does not circulate and filter the air remove pollen and humidity and air condition is not a good overall system for a home .

You end up with stinky kitchens bedrooms bathrooms without the air ventilation of continuous air movement throughout the house you end up with a lot more dust, pollen, etc. all over the house. These are the same problems you get with baseboard, hot water or radiator heat
, no thank you, we’ve moved beyond that years ago.

Say hello to the future, and the great indoors, even in climates, where you didn’t formally use air conditioning with the climate change and us aging folks having a whole house heating and cooling system that’s economical to run is really something I would recommend everybody think about.

John
 

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