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Post by shadow on Feb 11, 2010 19:36:06 GMT -4
Come on there Mr Hawkes...hook a brotha up with your NSP connections....lolol. I don't have electric heat, but have in the past and can relate. Can also currently relate to seeing the oil tank drop quickly during the last cold snap... ...but I do like the HWBB heat
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Post by Jeepy on Feb 11, 2010 19:51:50 GMT -4
Something is wrong there. We are in a similar sized house, most definitely not r-2000 ( about 25 years old) electric heat but I burn wood mostly. Still we are at $130 month (budget).
Try having someone watch the meter and shut off everything, then turn on circuit by circuit and look for anything that really spins it up. Get a kill-a-watt meter to test actual consumption of appliances and compare it to the stated draw on the tag. I'd consider installing a pellet stove if the electric heat is the culprit.
My neighbor up the street is an electrician and his bills for a new house were astronomical, turned out the guy that installed his heat pump must have dropped it and crushed the refrigerant coil before the sheet metal cover was put on. Thing ran 24/7 trying to do anything and always on the electric coil in the cold weather.
If it is the meter, is it somewhere that snow removal equipment might find it? ;D
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Post by itsakeeper on Feb 11, 2010 20:50:20 GMT -4
ahhh, good idea, neighbours snowball fight maybe ?
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Post by Hawkes on Feb 11, 2010 20:58:41 GMT -4
Come on there Mr Hawkes...hook a brotha up with your NSP connections....lolol. I don't have electric heat, but have in the past and can relate. Can also currently relate to seeing the oil tank drop quickly during the last cold snap... ...but I do like the HWBB heat Yea I was just kidding about paying for power, everyone knows employees get it free. I went through something similar my first year with the heat pump, it was undersized. My bills looked like Randy's, damn thing never shut off. I'm still not convinced it's big enough, but it's 10 years old so it will probably die soon anyway. I agree, you can imagine how many people feel their bill is too big, and want NSPI to dedicate resources to find the problem. It can be a number of things. Some people sleep with a window open all winter but never mention it, some heat garages but feel it has no effect on the house, etc. Randy, I'm not sure how far you went with the people that came out to your house, or if someone at the office looked to see if your last bill was estimated, sometimes that's done if there's a dog in the yard, or no access to the meter etc. Your account would say that when the rep looked it up. It's a long shot, but if that was the case they would guess from last years bill, which you said was high. Are you sure the last people used the hot tub? Could be it was only filled to show the house, maybe their bills were high too. You can also read your own meter, and see if the number you get is smaller than the number on your last bill. Lots of people gave their power bill but it would be interesting to see how much oil people go through to compare. The size of baseboard heaters make a difference too, a 3 ft baseboard in a 150 sq ft room is never going to shut off.
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Post by Enos on Feb 11, 2010 21:05:33 GMT -4
I'll let you know the oil vs electric, first month wasn't too good for oil, but I had a leak and was getting a lot of air in the system so I had to keep purging it. I can relate, I don't know how I'd pay my power bill if I had to pay income tax too
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Post by jrm on Feb 11, 2010 21:10:58 GMT -4
Our house has in floor heat with a elelctric boiler. My last bill for Dec. and Jan. was just under $ 500.00 The house is 2 years old with lots of insulation r 2000 in the walls and more in the attic.
Oh yeah like Mr Hawks i work for N.S.P. and get it free. Yeah Right
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Post by Hawkes on Feb 11, 2010 21:13:27 GMT -4
I can relate, I don't know how I'd pay my power bill if I had to pay income tax too To quote Shadow, hook a brotha up! John gets free health care too. ;D
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Post by shadow on Feb 11, 2010 21:17:27 GMT -4
I can relate, I don't know how I'd pay my power bill if I had to pay income tax too To quote Shadow, hook a brotha up! John gets free health care too. ;D LMAO...that's no fair then cuz you get free health care too... ...see, I share my perks
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Post by Hawkes on Feb 11, 2010 21:27:23 GMT -4
To quote Shadow, hook a brotha up! John gets free health care too. ;D LMAO...that's no fair then cuz you get free health care too... ...see, I share my perks You got me there. I pulled a few strings and got you the same kwh rate as me, check your next bill. ;D
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Post by Enos on Feb 11, 2010 22:00:02 GMT -4
LMAO
I did get one of those power meters that plug into an outlet, checked a lot of things (including my C9 Christmas lights, they actually used very little energy), the one thing that did freak me out is the portable oil filled heater, on low setting it cost about $6/day to use, on high (the functional mode) it cost $12/day.....ouch...it now lives in the corner of the basement never to be plugged in again.
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Post by shadow on Feb 11, 2010 22:34:42 GMT -4
LMAO...that's no fair then cuz you get free health care too... ...see, I share my perks You got me there. I pulled a few strings and got you the same kwh rate as me, check your next bill. ;D Woohoo... ;D ;D
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Post by shadow on Feb 11, 2010 22:36:02 GMT -4
LMAO I did get one of those power meters that plug into an outlet, checked a lot of things (including my C9 Christmas lights, they actually used very little energy), the one thing that did freak me out is the portable oil filled heater, on low setting it cost about $6/day to use, on high (the functional mode) it cost $12/day.....ouch...it now lives in the corner of the basement never to be plugged in again. That's like Jeff's Tim Horton's coffee maker post. I would say only use that in the trailer Enos when you are not paying for the electricity... ;D
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Post by Enos on Feb 11, 2010 22:56:59 GMT -4
Trailer has its own propane furnace
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Post by mostheman on Feb 12, 2010 7:31:46 GMT -4
LMAO...that's no fair then cuz you get free health care too... ...see, I share my perks You got me there. I pulled a few strings and got you the same kwh rate as me, check your next bill. ;D potential club discount?
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Post by SocialWheeler on Feb 12, 2010 8:32:58 GMT -4
I have forced air heat (oil) furnace and that costs me about 75$ a month and the NSP hit is about 180$ a month. About par for the course in my experience. I don't have it lit up blazing all the time (as it interferes with the candles and incense) LOL but thats not bad.
My thermostat is manual and set to 18.
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