Moemg
Gone but not forgotten
I noticed a difference in my electric when I retired . Since I'm home most of the day I keep the house at an even temp plus I run the dishwasher more since We are eating most meals at home .
Just looked at my bill online. I used 2060 KWH. The funny thing is, my neighbor's bill is usually $150 more than mine; her house is about the same size as mine and she's at w*rk all day.
Yeah, I've got six ceiling fans that help out a lot. I've got five skylights that are nice, but they can make it a little toasty at times...
A friend of ours in Houston is a carpenter and handyman type, and he's done some work both on our previous home in Houston and in our current house before we moved into it. He also did our kitchen remodel here.Regarding attic work in the summer.........
We have a cathedral ceiling in the livingroom which used to heat large quantities of air for delivery to the second-story bedroom.Yeah, I know a few folks with the two story houses and the tall open area in the middle. Their bills are more than twice the amount of mine with not much more square footage. I live in a single-story house as well.
It's also a function of home size, of course -- one reason I'm liking our small, spartan digs. We used about 1200 kWh last month despite almost every day being over 100 and the A/C (3-ton, 14 SEER) being on almost constantly. We had the ceiling fans whirring and the thermostat at 78-80 most of the time.
Looking forward to a week of getting away from this in about three weeks' time.
Well, when we were sizing it up, I had two different HVAC guys say we could go with a 2.5 or 3 ton unit based on size, which was consistent with what I had seen based on our home size and climate. Since we may want to add a master suite in the future, we decided to go with 3.Small, spartan digs with a 3 ton A/C? In my last house I bought a 2.5 ton air handeler, because we were planning to expand and the new square footage would require one that size.
Wow. "Only" 88º here now just 10 minutes later.99.8 degrees at 10:37 a.m.
I think I should print this and send a copy to my cathedral friends. Then if [-]the hail[/-] they need to re-roof again, they can follow your example.We have a cathedral ceiling in the livingroom which used to heat large quantities of air for delivery to the second-story bedroom.
We finally cut a hole in the ceiling at the top of the steps and ducted it through the attic to a rooftop solar-powered exhaust fan. We pulled the siding off the south wall, stuffed it with reflective foil insulation, and closed it up again. We also have an EnergyStar 60" ceiling fan in the livingroom for those days when the chimney effect isn't moving fast enough for us.
Most of the LR roof is covered with photovoltaic panels and won't need re-roofing for a long time. But if [-]the hurricane[/-] we ever re-roof then we'd add reflective foil insulation over the sheathing and the latest in reflective composition-shingle technology.