AND I don't understand how we can be using that much electricity - the heating is gas. We don't have aircon. We have one TV which isn't on that much. I use the dryer a fair bit but no more than other people I wouldn't have thought.
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AND I don't understand how we can be using that much electricity - the heating is gas. We don't have aircon. We have one TV which isn't on that much. I use the dryer a fair bit but no more than other people I wouldn't have thought.
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it's not hard to believe that sort of expense. sadly, it's very expensive to keep the house warm, and it really doesn't take much to burn through electricity...
we pay about 150 a fn for gas and electricity combined. our house is very new, and generally not bad for needing heating and cooling - and we try to keep the heating at a max of 18 (hard to go any cooler when DD won't keep blankets on!). our previous house wasn't well insulated, and we were paying about that just in electricity (due to having to use electric heating cos gas too exxy and not in right part of house!), and then bottled gas on top (about 120 a fn)....
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I use less gas than power. But I have a R/C air con, so I use that rather than my gas heater. My hot water is gas though.
My gas is $110-$140 every 8 or so weeks. Power would be $40 - $80 a week depending on the heater.
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Can I ask why you choose to use the RC Heater over the gas one? The RC Heating is MUCH more expensive to run than a gas heater in itself, and the price of gas is much less per unit than electricity...
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Number one reason is that I don't trust the gas heater on over night. I have the R/C on over night. I've not really thought about price. I think I'd be buying a gas bottle once every 2 weeks, rather than 8 - 10 weeks if I used the heater. I really am not sure gas here is all that cheap.
I've no idea of city prices or how it works, but compared to what my parents paid for a bottle, I pay about $50 more.
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Oh you are on bottle gas! Gotcha.
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Yep
I've never had gas before now. And being so isolated, prices aren't great. But I like that the hot water is instant, rather than heating a whole tank that may not be used.
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We live just west of Ballarat and are 100% Electricity, and over Autumn/Winter/Early Spring our electricity bill is about $1500 per quarter. Over summer it's about $400 per quarter and the summer/early Autumn quarter it's about $700, so we pay a heap in power costs.
Saying that we have 4 split systems for heating/cooling an older house (although I only use them for cooling on scorching hot days), plus TV's going and also the dryer in Winter as well, we have the heaters on around 20 degrees but on really cold nights I have to put the heater in the boys room up to 22, as they a HUGE room and won't sleep under covers yet .
Next year hopefully it will decrease a little as we will get in a load of firewood for the log burner in the lounge room - we didn't get any wood the past 2 years while the twins were babies and then just starting to explore as even though we have a fire guard it was still too risky we thought. Next winter though they will be 2 and I can hopefully make them understand to stay away from the fire, but time will tell.
Saying that it will be an interesting test to see if paying $500 for firewood means a $500 reduction in our power bill over the same timeframe, I'm tipping it will be more cost effective to just use the spilt systems but we need to try it out to see.
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