My guess is your basement is an unfinished one.. I suggest doing something to somewhat separate the area the enclosures are in from the rest of the basement (such as building a sheet rock wall or atleast hanging some sheets to help lower the loss of heat). I also say ignore the first poster completely, his thought is okay in theory, but what will you do if one of your heat sources goes bad and you have an animal that is left in the cold room without supplemental heat and catches RI or worse yet dies from it? I also suggest picking up an oil filled heater to help raise the ambient temps in the entire room to a more suitable level..



Good luck..
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Randall L Turner Jr.

www.aircapitalconstrictors.com

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• How do you heat a basement - Rottenweiler9, Sun Dec 5 21:06:36 2004
• RE: How do you heat a basement - pythonis, Sun Dec 5 21:44:11 2004
• RE: How do you heat a basement - Randall_Turner, Sun Dec 5 22:03:58 2004
• RE: How do you heat a basement - jasonmattes, Sun Dec 5 22:54:35 2004
• Your right, doing the insulation and sheetrock is the best way to go.np - Randall_Turner, Mon Dec 6 01:02:01 2004
• what would i do? - pythonis, Mon Dec 6 05:35:01 2004
• RE: How do you heat a basement - chris_harper2, Mon Dec 6 10:19:21 2004
• Thats a good idea draping the insulation..np - Randall_Turner, Mon Dec 6 12:43:46 2004
• Thanks for the ideas n/p - Rottenweiler9, Mon Dec 6 18:34:15 2004