Holy shiite!! He needs a couple of these for $269.00. It reduced our heating [all electric home] to less than $100 for each of the last two months.
Posted on 01/26/2011 6:51:40 PM PST by Little Bill
In many cases you can't simply replace an old storage type gas water heater with a tankless one. The gas pipe must be larger. It's expensive to upgrade the pipes in an existing house. Often it is cheaper to do nothing and just pay the bill.
What are all of you whining about?
obmmer’s b!tch at the epa is going to save us.
she’s going to mandate 15% corn juice in heating oil and natural gas as well as motor fuel. This will decrease the efficiency by 30% and raise the price by 50%.
Until you peasants stop complaining the financial beatings will continue until morale improves.
Oh yeah, since we’re going to be using food stocks for fuel the cost of groceries will increase by 75%...
Friend installed a demand heater couple of years ago. Power was down in their area for four weeks because of Ike. No power, no hot water. They took showers and washed their dishes at my house where I have the old fashioned gas kind.
It’s insanity, food for fuel. Only plentiful sugar beets from Brazil approach being cost effective when converting to fuel and the US imposes a 50% tax on importing them.
At least wrap your storage water heaters with an off the shelf water heater blanket to help insulate it from the cold, newer water heater have better insulation but wrap them too. Next would be to install pipe insulation on the hot water delivery pipes (if you can get to them) next would be to install low flow shower heads to cut down on hot water usage.
An airtight wood stove would be the way to go as there are many price ranges and styles to choose from plus different types of ducting enhancements to use (intake and outflow). Besides they burn anything you can fit inside them and they are very efficient.
Oct and Nov were about $300 per month. Dec hit $600 with colder temps and higher prices. Jan will be even worse because last two weeks have been going below zero consistently (New Hampshire).
This is natural gas. Have my tank in the back yard.
I’m looking at all options including different windows, wood stove in the basement, anything. This is only our first winter in this house. We had an apartment before which was very cheap to heat.
Long term, I’ll be leaving this state. 2-3 years. Combine high energy prices with insane property taxes, poor school choices for my son, some $500 to register 2 vehicles, and paying for union cops to sit at every construction site to pad their overtime, and a poor economy and it just doesn’t make financial sense to live here.
What are the details? What heater? Did it replace a gas furnace? How’d you get $1.60 propane?
Wow, that’s awesome. My all electric bill last month was 360... in Nor California
I gotta get outa that place, if it’s the last thing I ever do.
Join the club...people are fleeing New Hampshire in droves. Of course; you have to get out while you can still afford to...will heating oil top $5 per gallon by next year?
We should have started drilling ten years ago, but everyone CAVED to environmentalist control freaks, and now it is time to pay the piper.
Pellet stoves are worthless during one of New Hampshire's all too frequent power failures...freeze to death in the dark? Not pleasant.
We bought 100 gal of propane on Dec 28 for $2.39 a gal. but we only use it for our cook stove and that will last us about 3 years. We heat our house with wood heat (Napolean) and save ourselves around $2,400 per year on our electric bill alone, by not using our heat pump. We have our electric bill down to around $70.00 a month. We close off rooms that we don’t use often and I do a fair amount of cooking on the Napolean, that also helps.
We have a solar hot water system that we hope to get installed this Spring and that should reduse it even further, we’ll see.
I'm in North-Central WV at only 1500 ft. Last two times the truck was here to fill my neighbor, I had them top off my 500gal (400gal. max) tank.
12/15/10 - 164.7 gal. at $2.55 (previous fill-up was 8/17/10)
1/17/11 - 91.8 gal. at $2.75
That should hold me until the Aug. ‘summer fill-up’ when we get a ten cent/gal discount off the going price. Last Aug. was $2.29/gal (w/disc.)
Non-taxed kerosene in this area is $3.36/gal.
Not on this front, and we’ve had a prety cold winter. I pay $35/month in natural gas and about $100 in electric for a rather large 1906 farmhouse. (Lots of insulation and new windows have helped greatly!)
Of course, I’m gone most days out working, so she’s at 55-degrees, and I keep it that cold at night too, with an electric heater just in the bedroom.
So far, so good. :)
Yeah, I have the minimally expanding foam. Thanks for the warning though :)
The comments here largely miss the point. The US$ is being devalued making the costs of gold and oil and many other goods rise.
To relieve the pain, hedge by buying stocks or mutual funds that are rising in value.
WTF!
And I thought I was getting slammed. Got a LP delivery yesterday in NM at $2.50/gal.
We heated with fuel oil until last year. We installed an outdoor wood furnace. We burn a lot of wood. But we don’t miss the thousands of dollars we use to pay for oil. The furnace has 300 gallons of water. We have two circulation pumps into the house. One goes to a heat exchanger for our radiators, and the other goes to our hot water heater for domestic hot water. Hooking up to the hot water heater save us about $30 on our electric bill. We burned six cords of wood last year. We have a large old house, and our oil bill was $3k a year. I installed the furnace myself. Total cost was $7500. Minus the $1800 tax credit.
Holy shiite!! He needs a couple of these for $269.00. It reduced our heating [all electric home] to less than $100 for each of the last two months.
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