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re: Monthly electric bill?

Posted on 5/29/22 at 9:22 pm to
Posted by Spankum
The Sip
Member since Jan 2007
62059 posts
Posted on 5/29/22 at 9:22 pm to
quote:

over a thousand a month


Damn, man….you should put some money into insulation and you could probably knock that bill down by two thirds. Check out some spray foam.
Posted by BRgetthenet
Member since Oct 2011
118249 posts
Posted on 5/29/22 at 9:32 pm to
Call me when you’re ready to start the demo. I just finished a job recently on a house similar to yours. Albeit the owner wasn’t nearly as dead sexy. You could rub one out to pictures of the wife, but it got tricky finding a place to get after it once the pool house was leveled.

I had three guys working on my crew and we got it done in under a week. Each morning, I’d hand them one of these with a fresh Z Cord and told them tacos at 11.



Posted by SEClint
New Orleans, LA/Portland, OR
Member since Nov 2006
49487 posts
Posted on 5/29/22 at 9:40 pm to
$1,800
Posted by wfallstiger
Wichita Falls, Texas
Member since Jun 2006
15654 posts
Posted on 5/29/22 at 10:16 pm to
$125ish - all electric
Posted by lsumailman61
Gulf Shores
Member since Oct 2006
7965 posts
Posted on 5/29/22 at 10:20 pm to
1950 sq and paying $125 on average. We both work day time so everything is turned off and AC at 78 when we are not home. Gulf Shores, AL with Baldwin EMC.
Posted by GreenRockTiger
vortex to the whirlpool of despair
Member since Jun 2020
60422 posts
Posted on 5/29/22 at 10:21 pm to
$200ish - will probably creep up in the summer
Posted by threeputt
God's Country
Member since Sep 2008
24798 posts
Posted on 5/29/22 at 10:27 pm to
Nitro, baw! House coming down soon!
This post was edited on 5/29/22 at 10:28 pm
Posted by mmonro3
New Orleans
Member since Apr 2013
4226 posts
Posted on 5/29/22 at 10:47 pm to
Disqualified for growing
Posted by Floyd Dawg
Silver Creek, GA
Member since Jul 2018
5213 posts
Posted on 5/29/22 at 10:48 pm to
$415 levelized monthly.

Of course, that’s for 2 houses and a barn on the property.
Posted by RT1941
Member since May 2007
32035 posts
Posted on 5/29/22 at 11:18 pm to
3,800 sf, 4br 3 bath and laundry upstairs with. 4.5 ton unit, 1br 1.5 bath downstairs with a 3 ton unit, pool pump runs 12 hrs a day, house is 8 yrs old with mature trees for shade and there’s a ceiling fan running nonstop in damn near every room. May bill was $275 and it’ll top out around $400/mo June thru Mid-Oct. it runs $150-175 in winter - all electric.
Posted by SEClint
New Orleans, LA/Portland, OR
Member since Nov 2006
49487 posts
Posted on 5/30/22 at 1:33 am to
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Disqualified
frick that, its a bill.
Posted by stelly1025
Lafayette
Member since May 2012
10178 posts
Posted on 5/30/22 at 2:09 am to
My highest electricity bill ever was like 185. What the hell are you running to have that kind of bill?
Posted by Korkstand
Member since Nov 2003
29103 posts
Posted on 5/30/22 at 2:22 am to
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What the hell are you running to have that kind of bill?
Three AC units in a large house with zero insulation. Also probably a bunch of old light bulbs using 10X more power than necessary directly while the other 9X is released as heat adding more work for the three AC units.
Posted by DVinBR
Member since Jan 2013
15716 posts
Posted on 5/30/22 at 2:42 am to
1600 sq ft, built in 2017 in the BR area

3 Ton Rheem unit, 78 when away during the day, 72 when home

generally my gas+electric bill is less than $100
Posted by dyslexiateechur
Louisiana
Member since Jan 2009
36399 posts
Posted on 5/30/22 at 5:19 am to
Average of the house I’m leaving was $485 a month.

I’m told the average of the new house is $400 but it’s 100 years old and 5000 sq ft so we’ll have to see.
Posted by The Cool No 9
70816
Member since Jan 2014
11135 posts
Posted on 5/30/22 at 10:11 pm to
A thousand is pretty high I was about to complain about mine being 371

Granted if you say you've got an old house and I assume you're in the south it sounds like there are several measures you can take many of them DIY to get it down anywhere from caulking windows to tinting windows to getting HVAC company inspecting your system to being sure the ducts are clean, etc.

ETA ^^ 5000 sq ft 100 year old house holy crap that's got to be a hell of a central AC system. You don't use any window units anywhere?
This post was edited on 5/30/22 at 10:14 pm
Posted by Taurus
Loozianna
Member since Feb 2015
4955 posts
Posted on 5/30/22 at 10:28 pm to
$50-ish.....
Posted by LSU316
Rice and Easy Baby!!!
Member since Nov 2007
30274 posts
Posted on 5/30/22 at 10:32 pm to
quote:

Monthly electric bill?


High as giraffe pussy!
Posted by Irregardless
Member since Nov 2021
2239 posts
Posted on 5/30/22 at 11:09 pm to
$120 last month. 1970 brick on slab. And I run it at 68 at night.
Posted by gizmothepug
Louisiana
Member since Apr 2015
8632 posts
Posted on 5/30/22 at 11:16 pm to
quote:

I’m in a very old house that is over a thousand a month


Are you living in an old super sized mansion that doesn’t have any windows? That electricity bill doesn’t even begin to make sense.
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