Heating Costs

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Lippy91 · #1 Post by **Lippy91** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 2:33 am

Hey Guys,
I am curious to know what you guys pay for heat a month.
I have electric heat and had a $800 bill this month

.....Now let me tell you the specs of my house.
1200 square feet
700 of which I live in/Heat
I have not turned my thermostats above 70
I have a pellet stove to heat my house.
Most of the heat is turned of except the basemant in which I keep at the lowest setting to prevent frozen pipes.

Totally frustrated...never mind broke.

-Rich

ozarkdaler · #2 Post by **ozarkdaler** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 4:00 am

How old is the house?

claas900 · #3 Post by **claas900** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 4:22 am

Here in Ca, we spent about 60$ for heat..

383astro · #4 Post by **383astro** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 6:12 am

Where do you live? It averaged around 40-45 around here during january-february dipping to 20s at night. I have a 2000 sq ft house and heat all of it. My gas bill was 215.00 at the highest. I also dont have baseboards or trim around the doors right now ( I am remodeling) I run two 30000 btu Blue Flame heaters. They work great.

hawksd1 · #5 Post by **hawksd1** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 6:19 am

QUOTE (Lippy91 @ Mar 8 2007, 06:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hey Guys,
I am curious to know what you guys pay for heat a month.
I have electric heat and had a $800 bill this month

.....Now let me tell you the specs of my house.
1200 square feet
700 of which I live in/Heat
I have not turned my thermostats above 70
I have a pellet stove to heat my house.
Most of the heat is turned of except the basemant in which I keep at the lowest setting to prevent frozen pipes.

Totally frustrated...never mind broke.

-Rich

you my friend have just been robbed by the MAN

WJR · #6 Post by **WJR** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 6:31 am

We had some bills in the $850 range. Our house is 3000 square feet, one level with high ceilings, so that will cost...but we were still like "WTF?"

cannondale27 · #7 Post by **cannondale27** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:08 pm

My house is about same size.Biggest so far was $225 for natural gas which includes waterheater and clothes dryer.Electric same month was $300.That is my fault for welding and running electric heater in garage.I know a mobile home in Way Northern WI costs about $400 at least just to have enough heat to keep pipes thawed set around 58deg.

UpsMan · #8 Post by **UpsMan** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:59 pm

We keep our thermostat set at around 62. We wear sweat shirts and long underwear all winter long indoors. And wool socks. Our house is around 1500 square feet and is about 150 years old and you can feel a breeze in it all the time. Our electric is around a hundred a month and our gas is 170 a month on the budget plan. $270 a month all year round. If we weren't on the budget plan, it would be zero in the summer for gas, but right now it would probably be about 300 or maybe more. Central wisconsin. Brrr.

MX Quad Dad · #9 Post by **MX Quad Dad** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 1:52 am

Mine would be hard to figure. Propane bill isn't very high, but the double barrel wood stove eats some wood.

lets see

propane
+ gas and mantanence for chainsaw
+man hours to cut, haul and stuff the wood stove
- membership for gym
-the money I would probubly spend if I weren't out cutting wood

So it may be cheaper to just spend $800 a month

I think every year I say it will be the last for burning wood

toothandnail · #10 Post by **toothandnail** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:42 am

I burn corn
House 100 yrs old remodled in 95 2000 sq ft 72 degrees
shop 4400 sq ft 45-50 degrees ,office 800 sq ft 70 degrees
total for yr $1350.00 used to be $800.00 just for house on LP