Heating Bill (Hudson, Hope: apartments, how much, house) - City-Data Forum

ddlove01 · 12-21-2008, 05:13 PM

What is an average heating bill in the winter months for a 2000 sq ft house?
Does it differ greatly if you have electric vs gas?

We live in NC now and our winter bill is about $275 in Dec and Jan but we are all electric. Just wondering how much more we would spend up there...

JH6 · 12-21-2008, 07:09 PM

I have never seen electric heat here in Western NY.

We have either forced air gas, or radiant boiler gas heat.

We heat a 1100 foot apartment with a forced air gas furnace for under 200 per month, using an energy star thermostat to keep the heat at 57 degrees when we are at work, and around 62 when we are home.

I think you could heat a 2000 square foot house for under 300, unless you leave it at 70 degrees 24 hours a day.

MarineFromBuffalo · 12-21-2008, 10:14 PM

I have a 2000sqft home that is gas heated and it cost anywhere from 200-400 depending on the weather outside.

ddlove01 · 12-22-2008, 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by JustinH

I have never seen electric heat here in Western NY.

We have either forced air gas, or radiant boiler gas heat.

We heat a 1100 foot apartment with a forced air gas furnace for under 200 per month, using an energy star thermostat to keep the heat at 57 degrees when we are at work, and around 62 when we are home.

I think you could heat a 2000 square foot house for under 300, unless you leave it at 70 degrees 24 hours a day.

OMG that seems so cold, 57 degrees. We keep our thermostat at 69 here in NC. Guess we are wimps, well, we did move here from FL.

FedupWNY · 12-22-2008, 09:25 PM

FWIW, the gas bills here, for the most part, are rather high due to the amount of additional taxes and fees which take up more than half the total bill. HTH.

cheese9988 · 12-22-2008, 10:06 PM

Our last bill was ~$230 for gas and electric combined. That was for Nov I think. I'll have to see our next bill, our house isn't insulated very well and its been alot cooler the last few weeks.

Oh and the house is ~1800 sq/ft so it probably closer to your estimate. The only places I have been to with electric heat are apartments. Usually gas is cheaper.

minusach · 12-23-2008, 06:43 AM

Justin H, WOW..you keep the temp 62 when your at home. We keep it 66 when we are out and turn it up to 75 when we are at home. But we have the budget plan with national fuel/gas and its about $80 per month. Our apt. is 950 sq. ft.

tambre · 12-23-2008, 07:00 AM

Hi,
We have a 2850 s.f. house, with electric baseboard heat, and minimal a/c during the summer. We have a whole house fan. We use our woodstove on the first floor and a pellet stove in the basement. We are well insulated, have Anderson windows, and our budget plan is $332/mo. We have been getting back about 5 months worth of free utilities due to using supplemental heating sources. Without the budget plan, if we have a real cold January and February, the bill would probably be near $800/month for those two months. We spend an extra $600 per winter on pellets and $300 for wood. Hope that helps. We have Central Hudson as our energy co. So basically, the budget plan is $3,984 per year, but we have reduced it using wood and pellets.

$3,984, less $1,660 = $2,324 Then add on cost of wood/pellets $900, so it comes to $3,224, divided by 12 is about $268/month. We could reduce our budget plan, but it's easier to avoid having a nasty catch-up bill surprise by keeping the budget plan higher than we need.