Anyone else a tightass?

[lauralynne]

I should add: we're RARELY home. We all leave the house by 7am and we're rarely home before 9, fix dinner (which heats up the house) and then kids shower and go to bed and we sit and watch TV/hang out online and then crawl in bed. It's not like there's frost on the windows or we're wandering around the house like staypuff marhsmellow men We're used to it, it's not cold to us.

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by lauralynne

my house heats up pretty well when I'm cooking and we're moving around. If my sister (who is a human popsicle) is coming over, I'll light a fire in the fireplace. But otherwise? Nope. It's cold at my house. Deal. (mind you that keeping it at 70 for a month was an $800 electric bill - I just can't afford that. Period)

How was your bill $800 when '73 H1 Triple's was only $280 in the middle of a Pennsylvania winter?

Especially if you say that simply cooking dinner heats up the house........must not be a huge house then. Not trying to bust your balls, just trying to figure this out.

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

How was your bill $800 when '73 H1 Triple's was only $280 in the middle of a Pennsylvania winter?

Especially if you say that simply cooking dinner heats up the house........must not be a huge house then. Not trying to bust your balls, just trying to figure this out.

Electric heat maybe? Its supposed to be very efficient but very expensive.

Tom

[lauralynne]

Originally Posted by tommymac

Electric heat maybe? Its supposed to be very efficient but very expensive.

Tom

Electric heat (forced air) and Seattle prices.

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by lauralynne

Electric heat (forced air) and Seattle prices.

Worse than LI/NYC prices? I know our rates are prety bad here too. We have baseboard heating with gas. It seems prety good so far but its still all new to me. At the appt we had oil and had some shady goings on with the LL but around here the general consensu is that gas is a better option than oil.

Tom

[Homeslice]

The other guy's was electric as well

[mutley]

YOU HAVE HEAT lol. do you eco7 or another way do you have a cheep 2nd rate electric ?

ive over 914 lights in my place yet only comes in at 53 watts if all on

that was kilo watts lol ive some led some solour others are 0.09watts xmas lights and last year cut my electric down 66%.

[Fleck750]

Originally Posted by mutley

YOU HAVE HEAT lol. do you eco7 or another way do you have a cheep 2nd rate electric ?

ive over 914 lights in my place yet only comes in at 53 watts if all on

that was kilo watts lol ive some led some solour others are 0.09watts xmas lights and last year cut my electric down 66%.

What you're saying is interesting, but I don't understand a thing you said. e

You can go "off the grid" here, but the cost is pretty high to outfit a house with it.

[mutley]

Originally Posted by Fleck750

What you're saying is interesting, but I don't understand a thing you said. e

You can go "off the grid" here, but the cost is pretty high to outfit a house with it.

you have house's too lol

['73 H1 Triple]

Originally Posted by fasternyou929

Holy crap man, how long will it take until installing oil tanks, buying over $950/yr. in oil, installing an oil burner, installing a coal burner, buying tons of coal, and maintenance on that system ends up being cheaper and easier than a $280/month bill in winter?

That $280 was just a warm November electric bill. As I found out later, they were in excess of $400.

The oil fired hot air feels much warmer than the electric heat does. Plus we got central air with the new system. I didn't have to buy specialized narrow air conditioners to fit the crank out windows.

Plus, if the electric goes out, I still have heat