Hot coffee, blankies, move around alot. Good luck, hope it's something simple.

been there, don't wish it on anyone… to save money I have shut off all but 2 rooms (they are about 40) -but that is voluntary

light candles it might give the illusion of warmth
"It’s better to light one candle than to curse the cold"… or something like that

Funny.

I did that around 4:30 a.m.

Seemed the 'help' a bit.

Thanks fir the tip!

Turn every spigot in your house to drip or slow-run. (This should keep the pipe from freezing.)

Close every door to an unused/vacant room, block the cracks at the bottoms of the doors with towels. (This will keep the heat generated by the next one in the occupied spaces.)

Turn on the oven. Bake. Make a roast. Whatever. It should generate enough BTUs to warm a couple hundred occupied square feet to a cold but not miserable temperature. (60'F-ish.)

You should be warm in sweaters in the kitchen until the furnace technician arrives.

(I grew up on the side of a mountain in rural CT. You get to know these things because a bad storm might mean half-a-week-or-more of no power and unpassable roads.)

I believe it is quite effective

could be its own OP!

Going to try this as a camp heater this year!

Woot!

Bad limit switch.

Very pleased.

We were almost in the same boat! The service guy talked my husband through what-to-do over the phone, and it worked. There was some kind of switch that needed flippin'! Our temps went down below zero last night.