John, I know you're off the grid, so this idea won't work for you.
We have an old widow relative who has a very well insulated older home with electric baseboard heat, and she has shown me her electric bills. I'm amazed that they are only about $40 higher than mine, and I heat our house and hot water with wood. I do some occasional welding, but only small repairs, and not often, and I've got stock tank heaters and two deepfreezes, so that is a factor. She keeps her living room/kitchen so hot I can barely breath, but the heat is off in the rest of the house. Her house was one of those all electric "Medallion??" homes that was promoted by the electric co-op in the early sixties. At the time it was built, they installed two meters on it, one behind the other, to show how much electricity is used for heating. In return for being a guinea pig, they got special rates for a number of years.
People always badmouth electric baseboard heat, and I lean to believe them, but I see people installing it, and when I talk to them about it, they are pleased with it.
That's my feeble years/widowed wife plan. Every time I do anything to this old house, I'm gonna install electric baseboard heat for future desperation.
Meanwhile - you'll hear a chainsaw runnin around here a lot.
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