In other words, it's damned dangerous to be outside.
Great Teaching Moment - Heat Loss
Are you suffering from the cold too? Is your house cold even though the furnace is running non stop?
There's nothing wrong. This is normal when it gets bitter cold.
Furnaces, boilers, heaters, etc. are sized for an average low temperature. Professional installers look at the weather records
and then select a temperature like 5, 10, 15 or even 30 F depending on where you live.
It's silly and wasteful to install a furnace in your home that's so large it can heat the entire Empire State Building! You want your furnace to be just large enough to heat your home and that's
it.
Here's a coarse analogy. Imagine trying to heat a giant warehouse with a candle. The poor candle can't put out enough heat each hour to compensate for the HEAT LOSS through the floor, walls and ceiling.
Your furnace, boiler or heat pump is like that candle. When it's operating at full tilt, it can only generate a GIVEN AMOUNT of Btus per
hour.
As it gets colder outside, the heat loss, measured in Btus, INCREASES per hour. At some point that Btu heat loss is greater than what your heater can produce.
When this happens, it's impossible to maintain your normal
indoor temperature and you get cold.
The solution is to put on more clothes, long underwear and wear a hat. That's what I'm doing right now as I type this. Look at the photo just below.
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