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Old 01-07-2009, 03:12 PM   #14 (permalink)
Ryland
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I'm really interested in seeing how sharply I can make my bills drop, it's hard of course to truly compare month to month without a year to look back on, but already we've been turning the thermostat down as low as 50F while not at home, plastic on a bunch of the windows and the rest of them soon, new entry doors in the end of February (old ones are ill fitting wood doors that feel cold all around them), water heater now has a timer on it turning it off at mid night and on again at 7am, but I'd like to get more tabs for it to turn it off from say 8am to 3pm as well, my logic on the times to have it turn off right before we might be using hot water and not needing it hot again for many hours, 50 gallons of hot water is plenty for a shower, so one room mate likes live music and showers at 1am after coming home, at 1am it will still be plenty hot but without the timer the water heater would click on at 1:30am and reheat that entire 50 gallons.
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