re: What was your highest home electric bill for one month?

Posted by yellowfin

Coastal Bar

Member since May 2006

98722 posts

Posted on 8/1/11 at 8:10 pm to I Love Bama

Two central units

Posted by LNCHBOX

70448

Member since Jun 2009

88575 posts

Posted on 8/1/11 at 8:17 pm to Brageous

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1500 sq ft

Same here. Glad to know I'm not the only one.

Posted by lsubandmom

Houston/Lafayette

Member since Oct 2007

902 posts

Posted on 8/1/11 at 8:29 pm to yellowfin

I unfortunately had one close to $500 a couple of years ago including water & sewage. Large house with a pool - had the house up for sale and ran the pool pump a lot and kept house a little cooler than usual.

Posted by Golfer

Member since Nov 2005

75052 posts

Posted on 8/1/11 at 8:36 pm to Zach

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Are you from Haiti?

78 with the fans on right now...sleep with it at 76 with the fans on...

Cranks up to 85 during the day, down to 80 by 4pm and 78 at 5:30

This post was edited on 8/1/11 at 8:37 pm

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Posted by LSUtoOmaha

Nashville

Member since Apr 2004

26705 posts

Posted on 8/1/11 at 8:36 pm to Golfer

76 is doable. It's about the limit though

Posted by C

Houston

Member since Dec 2007

28148 posts

Posted on 8/1/11 at 8:51 pm to Golfer

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Cranks up to 85 during the day, down to 80 by 4pm and 78 at 5:30

I've heard bad things about doing this. I doubt it has time to cool the house to 80 in just 1.5 hrs. Especially during one of the hottest parts of the day.

Zack,
We keep the fans on. It feels fine. Sometimes we jump down to 75 if the wife isn't feeling well.

Posted by Golfer

Member since Nov 2005

75052 posts

Posted on 8/1/11 at 9:00 pm to C

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I've heard bad things about doing this. I doubt it has time to cool the house to 80 in just 1.5 hrs. Especially during one of the hottest parts of the day.

It doesn't necessarily get down to 80 at 4pm...

My electric bill is down $100 this summer...

Posted by C

Houston

Member since Dec 2007

28148 posts

Posted on 8/1/11 at 9:23 pm to Golfer

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It doesn't necessarily get down to 80 at 4pm..

The point is you don't want your a/c running all the time. it, supposedly, messes up the unit. which cost you a lot more than the $100 you save.

Posted by Golfer

Member since Nov 2005

75052 posts

Posted on 8/1/11 at 9:38 pm to C

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The point is you don't want your a/c running all the time.

Ah...never heard that even from some A/C folks...

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Posted by TIGER2

Mandeville.La

Member since Jan 2006

10508 posts

Posted on 8/1/11 at 10:05 pm to Golfer

$200.00 3300sqft.house. The main reason for my low electric bill,is the windows. Marvin windows with some special coating (don`t remember what)and they are filled with argon gas. When we built the house double insulated aluminum window for the house were around $6000.00,the windows we went with were$25000.00. Bought them for the way they look,but they are very efficient.

Posted by C

Houston

Member since Dec 2007

28148 posts

Posted on 8/1/11 at 10:08 pm to Golfer

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Ah...never heard that even from some A/C folks..

just looked up a bunch of links, and it appears I'm completely wrong. Keep doing what you are doing.

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Posted by tigerfoot

Alexandria

Member since Sep 2006

60582 posts

Posted on 8/1/11 at 10:32 pm to C

425

3000 hsf, includes water, sewage, trash.

Posted by lsurick82

Belle Chasse, Louisiana

Member since Dec 2007

420 posts

Posted on 8/1/11 at 10:51 pm to Zach

$581 this month!!! Half of it was "fuel adjustment charges". I don't understand how there can be a fuel adjustment of that much when the price of natural gas has barely risen.

Posted by bulldog95

North Louisiana

Member since Jan 2011

21167 posts

Posted on 8/1/11 at 11:01 pm to lsurick82

2000 SQ foot. bill last month was $278.00. we keep the thermostat at 74. It usually reaches about 78-80 degreens by 5:00pm but back to 74 by 10:00PM. I am currently tinting all the windows in my house and hoping this helps as well.