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Originally Posted by Daox
Hey guys. I've been looking at houses since late winter now. I guess I'd like to see what you guys are paying on a monthly basis for electric/gas? Mention if you have any efficiency things done. I'd like some numbers to aim for.
The house I'm currently looking at is around $75/mo (yearly average) for electric which seems high to me (but I don't know anything about this stuff) and $93/mo for gas. It has gas forced air heat and central air conditioning. I'm not sure if the water heater is gas or electric. My guess would be gas. The windows are old and I'm sure very leaky. It has a dish washer too. Square footage is around 1500 and its a two story house.
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was $20 winter,and maybe 50/month summer, but PCRF is eating into that, as generation costs seem to climb every month.My place is small,more a cottage than house,about 325 square feet.The shop area is more important to me than house for now.My place is a ferro-cement dome,its outsullated with 2-pound/cubic ft polyurethane foam insulation.It's passive solar oriented,with limited fenestrations,mostly to south.The place will be buried one day(earth-sheltered),however there is much to do before that happens.Electricity is my only utility other than land line phone(%22 a month ).I had propane heat,but quit using it when Enron began manipulating price.Been all solar since.It's just me here,so I'm okay with spartan living.When buried,the house will have equivalent R-90,and with thermal mass of earth around the structure,cooling cost should be a fraction.It costs about $ 15 a month to cool and de-humidify.Lower CO2 footprint in the future.