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12-23-2022, 08:09 PM
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#141
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 35,712
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Originally Posted by NW-Bound
This winter, I set the thermostats higher than I did in previous years. Getting old, I guess.
With the mini-splits mounted high due to the vaulted ceiling, when I set their temperature to 77F (25C), the temperature at ground level is 71F (22C) out in the living space, and 74F (24C) in my bedroom. I still wear t-shirt and shorts, and sleep without a cover.
The outdoor low is not too bad at 36F (2C) or higher. My electric bill is going to be $75.
I need to go up to the high-country boondocks home to check it. Low of single digits. High above freezing. My wife is afraid of the cold even for a short stay, so I don't know if I will go alone. Need to check the road condition.
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Just got my electric bill. $76. Last year, it was $60.
If it were not for my off-grid solar system helping out, the bill would have been perhaps $130. Still not bad for such a toasty thermostat setting.
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12-24-2022, 03:41 AM
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#142
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Crownsville
Posts: 3,711
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Some people have never paid a utility bill in their life and it shows. Here it is, the coldest night we've had in several years. Outside temp is around 7-8 degrees. I just paid about $943 last week to fill up the oil. And my housemate, who tends to complain about being cold? Well, he has a hot flash and cracks his bedroom window open!
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12-24-2022, 04:25 AM
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#143
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2016
Posts: 1,510
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I use and recommend LL Bean's "Cozy Cottage Fleece."
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12-24-2022, 08:15 AM
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#144
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: the prairies
Posts: 5,027
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Originally Posted by Mr. Tightwad
The difference is you live in a place where one would die with no heat used.
Where I live one doesn't need to turn on the heat in the winter.
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Where I live is irrelevant. If it was 53F in my house I would turn the heat on, regardless of the outside temp.
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01-24-2023, 02:50 PM
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#145
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 332
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Quote:
Originally Posted by aaronc879
You must have an oil furnace and/or a mansion? My bill with a natural gas furnace was $130 and that is for gas and electric.
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Not quite a mansion, but a stupidly large house. My then-fiancé and I built it 33 years ago, when big lakefront houses were fashionable. I've wished many times we didn't build such a beast. But it's a beautiful place to live so I've stayed here even after ex-DW took a hike.
That $500 bill was for a gas furnace, but like I said, it was nearly 2x the highest bill I EVER had in this house. Gas prices spiked this summer (thanks Vlad), jumping nearly 3x from a year ago. The utility was quick to jack up rates when the prices went up, but they're slower lowering them since gas went down again. I'm looking into installing a heat pump, and possibly solar.
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01-24-2023, 03:03 PM
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#146
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Florida's First Coast
Posts: 7,666
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Our total costs, and we are all electric are on average $15 pm more than last year. Not bad really, just a normal nominal increase. We are in Nort East Florida, and we do use Heat on occasion as I hate any temp below 75 Degrees.
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