[Merrily Gather]

Originally Posted by Danknee

Closing vents can potentially raise your bill; unless the rooms are isolated from each other with insulation like in a system that uses zones. The closed vent leaves that room hot. Then the heat seeps right back into the rooms you were attempting to cool due to the lack insulation between them. Your system will likely run more than if you left all the vents open.

At least it's pretty quiet here. We hardly see or here our neighbors except for when the water pipes run in their bathrooms. The keeping the vents closed during the summer experiment proved to be a failure I suppose due to insulation as you mentioned perhaps. For the first few days the AC ran but wasn't cooling down below 90 degrees until they fixed it so that might have something to do with it too. The complex quoted us at between $80 - $100 a month during the summer for the unit but they weren't sure on that. From other places with the same square footage we were given higher quotes so I wondered if it might not be higher and wasn't surprised. That was not including the one time initiation fee either.

Originally Posted by winter-rabbit

My first month of electricity bill is $58!!! Woohoo!

Does that include the initiation fee? What's the sq footage? Was it the entire month or a week and a half? We broke ours down by days in a week.

[C_A_Braun]

NV Energy customers to get small reduction on electricity bills | Las Vegas Review-Journal

[winter-rabbit]

Originally Posted by Merry Lee Gather

At least it's pretty quiet here. We hardly see or here our neighbors except for when the water pipes run in their bathrooms. The keeping the vents closed during the summer experiment proved to be a failure I suppose due to insulation as you mentioned perhaps. For the first few days the AC ran but wasn't cooling down below 90 degrees until they fixed it so that might have something to do with it too. The complex quoted us at between $80 - $100 a month during the summer for the unit but they weren't sure on that. From other places with the same square footage we were given higher quotes so I wondered if it might not be higher and wasn't surprised. That was not including the one time initiation fee either.



Does that include the initiation fee? What's the sq footage? Was it the entire month or a week and a half? We broke ours down by days in a week.

3BR / 2BA house around 1600sf. My entire house is all LED lighting. I have high efficiency front-load washer and gas dryer. I keep my thermostat at 80 flat.

[longton52]

Originally Posted by Merry Lee Gather

Was it the entire month or a week and a half? We broke ours down by days in a week.

When I set up my on-line account with NV Energy they started sending me an email every Sat, a "WEEKLY BILLING SUMMARY. It tells me how much my bill is so far this month, the number of days so far, and the projected monthly total. Last Sat they projected $150 for June.

Maybe the Summary is only available for houses ??

My house is 1200', 2 bed/2bath. I too keep my thermostat at 80, 24/7.

[Merrily Gather]

Originally Posted by winter-rabbit

3BR / 2BA house around 1600sf. My entire house is all LED lighting. I have high efficiency front-load washer and gas dryer. I keep my thermostat at 80 flat.

I'm impressed. I did run our washer and dryer a bunch at first because I wanted to wash everything in the house after the move if it needed it or not. Also used our dishwasher a bunch. My husband said we should get energy efficient lighting but I've read there's a potential health hazard with that. LED on the other hand isn't something I've considered but I'm impressed with them. It seems all the Christmas tree lights these days are LED lights. They're very efficient.

Originally Posted by longton52

When I set up my on-line account with NV Energy they started sending me an email every Sat, a "WEEKLY BILLING SUMMARY. It tells me how much my bill is so far this month, the number of days so far, and the projected monthly total. Last Sat they projected $150 for June.

Maybe the Summary is only available for houses ??

My house is 1200', 2 bed/2bath. I too keep my thermostat at 80, 24/7.

Good to know someone else is averaging the same. I'll have to set up our online account to pay the bills and check it out.

Originally Posted by C_A_Braun

NV Energy customers to get small reduction on electricity bills | Las Vegas Review-Journal

Yay! A reprieve!

[Raiderman]

We use the NV Energy smart meter, so their website gives us exact usage the following day, as well as projecting our bill for the month. For some reason, it's a couple days behind when I just checked. But with 19 days into the billing cycle, we're projected at $160. 2200sqft 2-story.

I think we're acclimated to the warmer temps during the day, more so than last year. When we shut the house down at 1:00p, we used to leave every day last year. Now we're fine kicking around the house until the A/C comes back on at 7:00. It has gotten to 85 inside around 5:00, but we don't find that too bad. Certainly better than a $300-$400 bill!

[Merrily Gather]

My husband's always complaining it's too cold and I'm always complaining it's too hot. I suspect that's why his office is preferably warmer. We haven't acclimated yet.

Plus I can't seem to get to sleep at night if it's not 76 degrees in the house because I'm uncomfortable and my feet feel hot and swollen. I don't know how you guys are doing it at 80 degrees flat but maybe I'll try that. At 78 degrees it feels muggy to me if the cool air isn't blowing but best to adapt.

[Danknee]

Originally Posted by Merry Lee Gather

My husband's always complaining it's too cold and I'm always complaining it's too hot. I suspect that's why his office is preferably warmer. We haven't acclimated yet.

Plus I can't seem to get to sleep at night if it's not 76 degrees in the house because I'm uncomfortable and my feet feel hot and swollen. I don't know how you guys are doing it at 80 degrees flat but maybe I'll try that. At 78 degrees it feels muggy to me if the cool air isn't blowing but best to adapt.

I'm with you, I need it cold to sleep. I set the bedroom AC to 74 plus use a ceiling fan.

[Raiderman]

Originally Posted by Danknee

I'm with you, I need it cold to sleep. I set the bedroom AC to 74 plus use a ceiling fan.

Us, too. 73 or 74 with the ceiling fan. Nothing worse than waking up clammy!

[jaimilyn]

Merry, what kind of curtains/window coverings are you using? The light/heat blocking kind really help