Life on Florida’s West Coast

Yes, We Do Use Heat in Florida

For those of you who think living in Florida means warm, sunny days all the year long, think again. We do actually get winter down here. It does not last as long as it will up north, but we have our share of the chills down this way as well. There are absolutely days and nights I put on two pairs of socks and a sweater, and bundle up under a blanket with the heat on in the house.

In the Tampa area, we get the occasional frost warning and there are weeks in January when we will put on our sweaters and fire up room heaters. There is not usually cause to heat the entire house. When in lived up in Gainesville, though, it cold and stayed cold for a good long time. The most economical way to heat the house was to put the furnace on low and use room heaters just in the rooms where you were sleeping or watching TV. When I was pregnant, I hunkered down in bed with a space heater close by for days on end. North Florida can get cold!

Friends of ours had a gas “fireplace” they liked to use for the cold days. It looked nice and really warmed up the room. They had gas infrared heaters in other rooms, which I found fascinating, because before then I thought all stand-alone heaters were electric only. They used their ceiling fans to circulate the heat out to the other rooms. It kept things cozy.

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