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Thanks for all the feedback!! The townhouse is brand NEW, so I'm thinking it'll be pretty energy efficient. It's just me, so it should be pretty easy to control my usage. Plus, I work a shift work job so atleast 10 days a month I'm not home at all!!
As an aside, do you guys find it to be more energy efficient to load a dishwasher throughout the week and wash the dishes after it's full, rather than washing them in a sink after each use?
As an aside, do you guys find it to be more energy efficient to load a dishwasher throughout the week and wash the dishes after it's full, rather than washing them in a sink after each use?
I'm pretty sure it's better to run a full (or nearly full) dishwasher than wash by hand. I read that somewhere last year when we were having all the water restrictions and requests to conserve. I hate washing dishes so I use the dishwasher - living by myself I probably run it every 5 days (depending on how much eating at home I do).
My place is 1300 sq feet. Ranch (Apex/Cary Area of NC). A few years ago, my original heat pump blew out after spending about $2000 trying to fix it., I ended up having to buy a 16 seer $7000 heat pump (at least that is what the HVAC repair company told me!!!!). I was disappointed about my electric bills w/ this advertised "HIGHLY EFFICIENT" unit. My AC bills are now around $120-$140 / mo. in summer - not too bad. BUT my heat bill in winter WAS a lot higher ----> $150-$200 / mo.
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2100 sq ft (2 story), north Raleigh, all-electric subdivision. Progress Energy bill is $200-250 in winter, $150-175 in summer, $100-125 in spring and fall.
Story goes that circa 1980, CP&L paid the developer of this subdivision not to install natural gas lines. The practice was subsequently banned by the NCUC.
Our water bill with four people and two dogs is around $100/month. It definitely seems to conserve water by filling up the dishwasher and running it when full, versus hand washing. Running water like that can end up costing a lot more.
FWIW I have found that my water increased significantly moving from Raleigh to Cary. I was paying about $80-90 every two months in Raleigh, and am paying about $60-$80 monthly now in Cary, for roughly the same usage.
That seems very high to me. Two of us here, and ours typically is in the $60--$70 range.
A quiet leaking toilet flapper can cost you a lot of money.
That is the first thing I would look at.
I deleted my post (or so I thought). I went back and looked and it covered two months (this all just came about yesterday), so I am in the low $70's per month for 2.2 people living there.
Ironically, I also just fixed a flapper, so I was hoping to see some advantage there. It's hard to tell, as I fixed it at the same time that my occupancy rate changed....
I deleted my post (or so I thought). I went back and looked and it covered two months (this all just came about yesterday), so I am in the low $70's per month for 2.2 people living there.
Ironically, I also just fixed a flapper, so I was hoping to see some advantage there. It's hard to tell, as I fixed it at the same time that my occupancy rate changed....
Well, you apparently DID delete. Right after I plucked the quote.
So? I deleted mine.
"One good deletion deserves another!"
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is around $100/month. It definitely seems to conserve water by filling up the dishwasher and running it when full, versus hand washing. Running water like that can end up costing a lot more.
