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Now that it's starting to get cold, just wondering how you heat your home and what it costs. Please include the square footage of your home and type of heating. (electric, oil, gas, etc)
Now that it's starting to get cold, just wondering how you heat your home and what it costs. Please include the square footage of your home and type of heating. (electric, oil, gas, etc)
1300 sq/ft with heat pump (electric) Havent turned on the heat yet (we just wear extra clothes for as long as we can) Hoping we can keep the costs below $100 even in coldest months
Natural gas. I prefer it on the colder side and am I'm at home during the day, which is why I've had skyrocketing AC bills in the summer but my winter bills seem to be okay (less than NRG's) for a 2200 sq ft house.
Electric heat pumps....2 units. They work well to a point.....not very good when the temps go below freezing. When it's real cold they will run around the clock to maintain 70. They are 12 years old though. I miss my old furnace sometimes......but not the oil bill. Right now the worst electric bill we've had is around $250 in the coldest months. My house is 100% electric, so that's not too bad. It's been as low as $90 in the spring and fall.
Heat pumps (2 units) with electric "emergency" heat coils. We have a 2-story 3100 sq ft house. It's hard for me to split out the cost as they are electric and so is everything else in our house.
We have the two blasted forced lukewarm air heat pumps too. I envy you folks with natural gas heat. Y'all must stay warm. We have to supplement our "heat" with propane logs.
I live in a 900 sq ft apartment with natural gas heat and water heater. Our highest bill in the winter is about $75. We keep the thermostat at about 65.
We had an electric heat pump in our last apartment which was smaller, and not only did it not heat as well, but it also cost more to run (probably because it did not heat as well ). The HVAC in that apartment was probably about 6 years newer than the one in my current apartment and was supposedly more energy efficient. Didn't seem that way on our utility bills!
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