Section C: OTHER APPLIANCES C-1 CWASHER Now I have some questions about your use of other appliances commonly used in homes. Do you use a clothes washer in your home? [Do not include community clothes washers that are located in the basement or laundry room of apartment buildings.] Yes 0 [If Yes] WASHLOAD Please look at Exhibit C-1. In an average week, how [If Yes] NUMCFAN How many ceiling fans does your household use? Enter the number C-5 [If a Single-family home] SWIMPOOL Does your home have its own swimming pool with a filtering system? C-2 DRYER Do you use a clothes dryer in your home? [Do not include community [If Yes] DRYRFUEL What fuel does your clothes dryer use? Is it ... [If Yes] DRYRUSE Please look at Exhibit C-2. How often do you use your clothes dryer? Use it every time you wash clothes Use it for some, but not all, loads of wash 23 C-3 WATERBED Does your household use any waterbed heaters? Yes No 1 0 [If Yes] NOWTBDHT How many waterbed heaters do you use? [If Yes] FUELPOOL What fuel is used most often to heat the pool water? C-6 RECBATH Does your home have a heated hot tub, spa, or jacuzzi, other than a Yes No 0 [If Yes] FUELTUB And what fuel is used most often to heat the water in your C-7 TVCOLOR How many color television sets do you use in your home? Energy Information Administration Enter the number [If TVCOLOR>0] VCR_How many VCR's do you use in your home? Enter the number For each of the following appliances please tell me, yes or no, whether they are used in your home. Energy Information Administration C-13 [If COMPUTER=Yes] PCUSE Altogether, how many hours a week is/are your personal computer(s) turned on? Is it/Are they turned on [If More than 16 hours] PCTASK Do you use your computer principally for personal use, such as paying bills, doing homework, or playing games, or do you use it principally for business purposes, that is, as part of your job? [If Business Use or Both] TELECOM How would you describe the business use of your personal computer? Do you, or anyone else telecommute? That is, does anyone work on your computer at home instead of traveling to their employer's place of business? [If Yes] BATCHRG How do you maintain these portable appliances or tools when they are not being used? Do you keep them plugged in all the time or do you let the batteries run down and then recharge them as needed? [If Yes] TELLDAYS How many days each week, on average, is the personal computer used for telecommuting? Enter the number of days No Do you use any of the following kinds of office equipment in you home? 0 Section D: SPACE HEATING D-1 FUELHEAT Now I have some questions about the types of equipment and fuels you use to heat your home. Please look at the Blue Card. What is the main fuel used for heating your home? That is, which fuel is the one that provides the most heat for your home? D-3 EQUIPAGE Please look at the Yellow Card. Approximately, how old is your household's (name the equipment identified in D-2) heating system? Don't heat home [If Don't heat home] DNTHEAT It's unusual not to heat a home at all. Just to clarify, is it that you have heating equipment but don't use it, or does your home not have any heating equipment? Have equipment, but don't use it Don't have any heating equipment 2 [If Have equipment] FUELHEAT Please look at the Blue Card. Even though you don't use your heating equipment, we are still interested in the fuel it uses. What is the main fuel used for running your heating equipment? D-2 EQUIPM Please look at Exhibit D-2. Please tell me which type of heating equipment provides most of the heat for your home. D-4 HEATOTH Does the main space heating system for your home also heat any other Yes No 1 0 D-5 EQUIPAUX In addition to the (name the equipment identified in D-2), do you use any other types of equipment to heat your home, even only once in a while? [If Yes] Please look at Exhibit D-2. Please tell me which types you occasionally use to provide heat in addition to the (name the equipment identified in D-2). Prompt: Is there any other heating equipment you use? [Record all that are used.] 04 REVERSE Heat pump WARMAIR Central warm-air furnace with ducts to individual rooms (other than a heat pump) STEAMR Steam/hot water system with radiators or 03 convectors in each room or pipes in the floor/walls 02 05 PIPELESS Built-in floor/wall pipeless furnace ROOMHEAT Built-in room heater burning gas, oil, or kerosene 06 07 WOODKILN Heating stove burning wood, 08 CARRYEL Portable electric Heaters 10 09 RANGE Cooking stove (used to heat your 21 96 Energy Information Administration [If WARMAIR or STEAMR or DIFEQUIP = Yes] ELECAUX UGASAUX LPGAUX FOILAUX KEROAUX WOODAUX SOLARAUX OTHERAUX DKAUX What fuel does the (type of equipment) of heating equipment use? [If Natural gas or Bottled gas] NGFPFLUE Does this fireplace have a flue to the outside or is it entirely self-contained? Flue to the outside Flueless (self-contained) 1 2 [If Natural gas or Bottled gas] USENGFP During the winter months how frequently do you use your gas fireplace? Do you use it... [If PIPELESS = Yes] ELECAUX UGASAUX LPGAUX FOILAUX KEROAUX WOODAUX OTHERAUX DKAUX What fuel does the pipeless furnace use? Electricity [If RANGE = Yes] ELECAUX UGASAUX LPGAUX FOILAUX KEROAUX WOODAUX OTHERAUX DKAUX What fuel does the cooking stove use? 05 [If ROOMHEAT = Yes] UGASAUX LPGAUX FOILAUX KEROAUX DKAUX What fuel does the room heater use? D-6 [If D-4 = Yes] EQMAMT Thinking about your main heating equipment, the (name the equipment identified in D-2) that uses (main heating fuel identified in D-1), how much of the heat for your home would you say that this heating equipment provides Almost all, 12 About three-fourths, or 2 ... [If WOODKILN = Yes] WOODAUX OTHERAUX DKAUX What fuel does the heating stove use? D-7 [If FUELHEAT = Solar or SOLARAUX = 1 ask] ACTSOLAR Does your solar heating system require pumps or fans (other than ceiling fans) to circulate warm air or hot fluids between solar collectors and the rooms they heat? [If CHIMNEY = Yes] UGASAUX LPGAUX WOODAUX OTHERAUX DKAUX What fuel does the fireplace use? D-8 THERMAIN Please look at Exhibit D-8. Do you have a thermostat that controls your main (insert name of main heating system) heating equipment and allows you to set the system to a specific temperature during the heating season? [Interviewer: If needed, add: "A thermostat automatically responds to temperature changes and turns the heat on or off until the desired temperature is reached."] [If Yes] SETBACK Is that thermostat either an automatic set-back or clock thermostat? [If Yes] AUTOHEAT Have you actually programmed the thermostat or do you use its' manual features to control the temperature setting? Section E: WATER HEATING E-1 FUELH20 Please look at the Blue Card. Which fuel do you use the most to heat water for washing or bathing? D-9 At what temperature does your household usually keep your home in the winter? [Interviewer: If respondent keeps different parts of the house at different temperatures, record the temperature in the part of the house where the people are. If, for example, the heat is turned off upstairs during the day because the family is downstairs, record the downstairs temperature. If the respondent doesn't know the temperature, but knows the thermostat setting, record the thermostat setting. Otherwise, probe for the best estimate.] Fuel oil Kerosene Wood Solar Some other fuel (Specify Don't know Don't use hot water E-2 WHEATOTH Does the main equipment for heating water for your home also heat water for any other apartments, condos, households, businesses, or farm buildings? E-3 WHEATSIZ Please look at Exhibit E-3. Please tell me the approximate size of your Small (30 gallons or less) Medium (31 to 49 gallons) Don't have a separate water heater 12306 ---> SKIP to F-1 Energy Information Administration HEATROOMS Of the (enter the number from A-9c and A-9d) rooms in your D-10 Yes No 0 [If No] HEATNOT How many rooms were not heated last winter? Enter the number E-4 WHEATAGE Please look at the Yellow Card. Approximately, how old is your |