My friend is using her stove lately to heat her upstairs .She turns it on and opens the oven door. Its a gas stove. She also using a portable Mr.Heater propane or kerosene thing she bought. You click and light and a blue flame shoots out. On top of this a pellet stove. I told her I think this is all very dangerous but she doesnt listen. Is it or not ?

I thought if I could show her what others said maybe she would listen..
Serious answers only and I dont want this to be about money… Its about safety. Thanks.

Earlier this year my husband and I were married. shortly after, an apartment building came up for sale or rent to own. My husband is german and we are in the process of his paperwork so he has no social security number. I am only 23 and was unable to obtain a loan large enough due to not having enough credit history. We decided to do the rent to own until we were able to finance the property. (Money isn’t the issue. I own another small, yet thriving business. My husband worked as a computer programmer in Germany and has a nice savings).
Now in a rent to own agreement what is the landlord allowed to do?
The agreement we have simply says how much well pay by the 7th of each month or there will be a fee it goes on to say that we may pay it off early with no penalty. It states the interest rate, price, and term. A couple weeks ago the landlord came angry because we didn’t pay the taxes. We informed him we did thought he would pay them (just like when you finance throw a bank-its included in the payment) and he had never told us anything about it nor had he given us a bill. He said if we did not pay the taxes by the 31st he would take the building back. We paid it however it left us short for our payment. We asked him if it would be ok if we pay the difference two weeks after the due date and we’d pay the late fee. (Due to the cost of the taxes we cashed in an investment however we didn’t receive the money by the 31st. It is to be here in a week, we asked for 2 wks so to guarantee we would have the check). He began screaming about how we aren’t paying the bills. (which we are I have all the receipts) he went on to say how i had my x-mas lights 24 hrs a day wasting electric and how we allow the upstairs apartment to have a window open (the one room becomes very large, we lived in that apartment a few wks and it does truly get extremely warm in that one room, to turn down the heat makes it too cold in the other rooms) I informed him that it is not his business. these are our bills and as long as their paid then what does it matter. He then basically called us pigs and asked if we knew how to clean. I had stones on my porch (it is next to the main road and is very difficult to keep clean) that he saw my porch and would hate to see the inside of my house! I am very insulted. He also is angry about any thing we want to do. He does not want us to bring in a landscaper. He says the building is fine, which it is not. He did not even have fire alarms in the apartments. He was angry and screaming at us in Walmart one day because we purchased fire alarms for all the units. There were two dead trees in the yard (one leaning into the building) we had cut down he said we were wasting money. He is constantly threatening to take this place back. Is he allowed to do that? We are within the contract. Our payment is always made on time. with the exception of this one but is still OK according to the agreement as long as its received by the first of the next month. We have an appointment to see our lawyer but I would just like to get some opinions for my peace of mind.
I thought a rent to own deal would be just like buying through a bank. They don’t care if you tear the place down as long as they get their money.

The house is staying warm @ 20-30 degrees outside. If i keep my furnace set @ 45. Will I save money?

The cap on my gas tank is locked and I can’t get it to unlock….I usually leave it unlocked as I’ve had this problem b4 and had to have random strangers help me! But a friend borrowed it and upon it’s return, the cap was locked….which I found out as I was trying to get gas! @ guys tried opening it and couldn’t Following the directions (insert key, turn 1/4 clockwise to unlock) yields no results. I had to get my money back and got no gas! SOOOO frustrated…please help! I spent 2o minutes trying to get it open!

I have a huge problem with my landlord..well many..ill just make a list
1. electric problems/ safety. I GOT ELECTROCUTED!
2. water is leaking from window onto outlet
3. stove isn’t properly working
4. sewer leaking under house
5. have the smell coming up through heater vents

All this and they will not fix and refuse to dump money into it…i was told i rent so any repairs or anything. It had to be through them or asked for permission..I am supposed to be inspected from the fire and safety inspectors, yet to see any of them..

I have a five month old baby girl and i am not safe…they refused to give us a lease cause they weren’t doing it by law, by putting me or my child on the lease or the papers of whose living there cause i didn’t have a job at the time cause of pregnancy(we weren’t gonna get a lease and she didn’t put us on it so she can kick us out at any time).(she had told us)
we weren’t supposed to pay a security deposit if we had fixed up and cleaned and painted the place before moving in..Well we did do all that n had to still pay…Only because i was due any day at the time and needed a place to stay.. everything was fine till now, she said when i Had gotten a dog for my birthday all she needed was the papers n shot records..well now shes saying renters are not allowed to have pets, and she can evict us according to the lease! WTF we dnt have a lease!!
What do i do? i called someone to do with fire safety , they took my report and said they wee gonna calla round.. she said maybe have the fire inspector call me or come out…We tell our landlord we shouldn’t have to pay for a unsafe house there supposed to be fixing! My fiance told her hes contacting a lawyer and that’s when she sent her handy man over, who said the electrician was to be here in the am.. well the landlord said no body was coming out or fixing shit and wont cause the owner ain’t fixing a dump!!! What can be done? im desperate and have lost my job and so has my fiance and they wont give us our security back.. his unemployment isn’t enough to get in a place…
Ok, i had contatced like 25 people about this..the fire inspector had came out today failed us ofcourse then went and told my landlord its so unsafe i cant use anything to cook or heat up bottles for my child..Ita a fire hazard , she
Ok, i had contatced like 25 people about this..the fire inspector had came out today failed us ofcourse then went and told my landlord its so unsafe i cant use anything to cook or heat up bottles for my child..Ita a fire hazard , she
Ok, i had contatced like 25 people about this..the fire inspector had came out today failed us ofcourse then went and told my landlord its so unsafe i cant use anything to cook or heat up bottles for my child..Its a fire hazard , she was told it was to be fixed imidiatly and the electrical inspector would be comming out to make sure of it..Well all this finally happened now i had called code inforcement and safety..fire marshal?inspector etc… Then she had told us the whole the dog had just dug from being out side as the electrician was in my house, had to be fixed..So as my fiance walked down the steps to go fill it she walked right towards it and he yelled watch that whole im filling it now.. she puposely stepped into it. She acted like she didnt know it was there, and the funny thing is shes a person who looks at the ground when walkin so she obviously seen it!!! Now i have more problems, she still threatned to evict me BUT,she cant!!! hahaha
Ok, i had contacted like 25 people about this..the fire inspector had came out today failed us of course then went and told my landlord its so unsafe i cant use anything to cook or heat up bottles for my child..Its a fire hazard , she was told it was to be fixed immediately and the electrical inspector would be coming out to make sure of it..Well all this finally happened now i had called code enforcement and safety..fire marshal?inspector etc… Then she had told us the whole the dog had just dug from being out side as the electrician was in my house, had to be fixed..So as my fiance walked down the steps to go fill it she walked right towards it and he yelled watch that whole im filling it now.. she purposely stepped into it. She acted like she didn’t know it was there, and the funny thing is shes a person who looks at the ground when walking so she obviously seen it!!! Now i have more problems, she still threatened to evict me BUT,she cant!!! hahaha

I am interested to look at a house that was once a 2 family, but the previous owners converted it into a single family. There are still 2 different meters for both heat and electric. One is gas one is oil(I have no idea how or why) Would like to turn it into one heating system and one electric…Does that make sense to do so? Otherwise wouldn’t I recieve 2 heat bills and 2 electric bills, which would therefore cost me more money because of utility taxes and "delivery charges"? If there were a chimney, I would install a pellet stove, but there isn’t, and I still have the problem with the 2 zoned electric. Any ideas on this? The property is a steal otherwise I am just in the dark as to whether or not 2 zoned utilities are not a good idea…
Location: Boston, MA

I have a fieldstone fireplace with 4 square feet of flasing in front of it.I want to use a woodstove insert to save money on installation and make more room in the cabin.

If I cast my own aluminum ingots (4-5 lbs) from soda cans, will recycling/scrapping centers still accept it? If so, will they offer more money for being in a more raw form? Would I be able to cast copper and bronze ingots as well as other metals?

I live in the Twin Cities in MN, and gas prices for natural gas is like $.86 per whatever. I have a gas fireplace… and i was wondering if i bought an electric heater for to heat my rooms, would i save money using electricity than using natural gas??

We all know it is devastating to the air we breath. Why not just ban it for good? I live in an area that the air gets trapped and the pollution level skyrockets because of this. Please, no stupid angry full of attitude responses. I really want serious answers on what could possibly be done about this.
In the summer, my city has high levels of ozone(smog), but in the winter, the air gets worse because of all of the particulate matter( wood burning) . Why isn’t more being done to lower the levels of this pollutant? There are a ton of kids in my area that are affected because they have respiratory problems. And there are plenty of adult sufferers too.(me included).
sciencenut……i know that woodburning does not contribute to "greenhouse gases". but, it is a pollutant nontheless. there are thousands of people in my area who suffer from asthma. and this costs a lot of money each year. emergency visits, medications, etc. i would never personally consider or endorse nuclear energy as a heating source. but that is just my "arrogant" opinion. But, there are clearly other ways. and, this was simply a question on what to do about it. not telling you how to live your life. personally, i’m tired of wheezing from asthma. i don’t smoke, i hardly drive my car. i ride my bike with a trailer hitched to take my little ones to school. i also bike to the market. i shouldn’t be having to worry that the air index is at 120 in the middle of the morning. your answer really pissed me off for some reason. this was not an arrogant question. you just gave an arrogant answer. so F.U sciencenut