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We have a brand new house so this shouldn't be an issue. We do have a CO monitor in our home which has never gone off.
Nearly $300 a month seems awfully high. I have no idea how large your house is, but in general, new construction should have good, efficient insulation and central heating system. What temperature are you keeping your house? Are you sure that all the windows are closed and secured? Check for drafts around doors and windows; that can suck the heat out of your house.
Is that the higher volume in Midwest driving the unit price down? How about southern California?
Gas Prices (http://www.socalgas.com/residential/prices/table/ - broken link)
Nearly $300 a month seems awfully high. I have no idea how large your house is, but in general, new construction should have good, efficient insulation and central heating system. What temperature are you keeping your house? Are you sure that all the windows are closed and secured? Check for drafts around doors and windows; that can suck the heat out of your house.
Our house is about 3500 sq ft. The windows are standard construction crappy windows, but they are all locked tight. I don't feel a significant draft when I hold my hand to them. We have been turning our thermostat down even further to 66 at night and between 67-68 during the day. Never higher. My husband just installed programmable ones yesterday, and we set them even lower to 65 at night, and we'll do that when we're not home for hours at a time also. I just don't get the jump in bills. Depending on who you talk to, $300/month can either be "outrageous" or "yeah, that sounds about right." Very frustrating.
Our house is about 3500 sq ft. The windows are standard construction crappy windows, but they are all locked tight. I don't feel a significant draft when I hold my hand to them. We have been turning our thermostat down even further to 66 at night and between 67-68 during the day. Never higher. My husband just installed programmable ones yesterday, and we set them even lower to 65 at night, and we'll do that when we're not home for hours at a time also. I just don't get the jump in bills. Depending on who you talk to, $300/month can either be "outrageous" or "yeah, that sounds about right." Very frustrating.
It's not too far off the mark, from my perspective. My house is not quite as large as yours, and our hot water is electric, and we run about $190/mo during the cold part of the winter
Is that the higher volume in Midwest driving the unit price down? How about southern California?
Gas Prices (http://www.socalgas.com/residential/prices/table/ - broken link)
With the california rate, 0.40/therm for now (shown in the above link), I would reduce my bill from $225 to $55 (225*0.4/1.43). $300 bill will shrink to around $80.
Our bill for January was $200--we have a 2000 sq ft house, gas heat and hot water, no gas appliances. We keep our place cold--usually 65 during the day.
Must get an energy audit--it shouldn't cost this much to heat our house!
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