So what's your utilities bill look like?

disneyjoe7

jgido759 wrote:

I feel your pain. My wife & kids do the same thing. I keep threatening to install motion sensors in place of light switches.

I did that and didn't like it, to noisy even if it said ceiling fan OK. First the delay was to short only 20 Min's. I installed 3 office / family room / master bedroom, master bedroom didn't work the first day. Problem noisy and must be moving to keep it running..... not we're sleeping. The family room was tripped on walking to office and was on when I was in office not family room. So it to didn't work out. The office didn't work if I just walked into room to check on something then it was on for 20 Min's, it was also the cheapest fan and the noisiest Hampton bay vs. Hunter everywhere else, if Hampton bay was cheap I don't really think so. So all where replace back to wall switches. This experiment lasted for 2 weeks.

disneyjoe7

OK you'll are making sick wonder why I don't have the cash to buy stuff.

Trash paid in my taxes, but $30 a month.
Water / sewerage / irrigation $85 a month.
Electric we know but $150 to $350 a month.
Phone / DSL $60 a month and I get a discount with that.
Gas $0 but I'm sure my electric would be lower with it.

SKsolutions

disneyjoe7 wrote:

Ok so some of you's have Electric and gas bills so Hot water / Cooking / Cloths drier is GAS mine are all electric.

Anything I could do?

**** in the Dryer ?

SKsolutions

One bed flat in Boston 500ft^2

Elect up to 108.oo recent
Gas heat/HW 125.oo average monthly goes to 300.
Cable 92.oo monthly
6Mb/s 45.oo w/ bundle price no VOIP
Phone 95.oo unlimited

Can't afford a home phone, and what's the point with only 500 square feet.
This is consumption for just one person living in a third floor bomb shelter.

disneyjoe7

Boom Boom Boom

Tex

I have a 2800 sq ft home that is all electric. Our last electric bill was $260. Our high bills are $400 and low about $180. We average about 3000 kwh per month at .08 to .10 cents per kwh. 2 years ago it was about 30% less than now. Water bill can be as low as $20.00 per month but we have been in a drought for a couple years so when we run our sprinkler system the bill is about $60 per month. Trash is $17 a month, phone $22 per month. No gas where we live and no sewage (outhouse). Actually we are on a septic system. What is sad is that our household gasoline bill is higher than all of our utility bills.

disneyjoe7

Tex wrote:

What is sad is that our household gasoline bill is higher than all of our utility bills.

That is sad.

heiney9

I'd be interested to know what everyone across the country is paying for electricity. I pay for summer rates $0.08275 per kWh at peak time and $0.03734 per kWh non-peak (which is roughly 10% of the electricity I use).

H9

disneyjoe7

I'd be interested to know what everyone across the country is pulling what KHW for the months and what the KW price.

First 1000kw $.098
After 1000kw $.11879

KWH

July 2379
June 2609
May 2185
April 1391
March 1532

jeremie

I work for Ameren which is the largest midwest power company for Missouri and Illinois. I am not sure if heiney9 is in our service area but you can thank your law makers for the regulation controls in IL. You can go to www.ameren.com and see what they are doing about the IL side of things. Ameren is one of the cheapest companies in the country when it comes to power. Anyway my highest bill during the year is around 200 in peak summer and as low as 65 bucks. I am heating a 2000 sq ft ranch with 15ft vaults and a finished 1800 sq ft basement. I keep my summer temps at 75 and winter at 70. thank goodness for a heat pump they really work out well in the midwest.

disneyjoe7

Anyone going to post your monthly KWH vs. Sq foot? And then your KW price? Peak not Peak / or stepped.

disneyjoe7

Did this die?

Somewhat quick...

jeremie

2000 Sq ft Ranch 1800 sq ft finished basement


07/05/06 1879 Kwh Ele: $158.75
06/05/06 1354 Kwh Ele: $73.69
05/04/06 1870 Kwh Ele: $93.57
04/05/06 2218 Kwh Ele: $106.98
03/07/06 3156 Kwh Ele: $143.12
02/06/06 3477 Kwh Ele: $155.48
01/06/06 3683 Kwh Ele: $163.42
12/05/05 2050 Kwh Ele: $100.51
11/02/05 1441 Kwh Ele: $77.04
10/04/05 1816 Kwh Ele: $153.67
09/02/05 2306 Kwh Ele: $193.08
08/04/05 2220 Kwh Ele: $186.17

disneyjoe7

Damn dud what is your electric rate?

disneyjoe7

jeremie wrote:

06/05/06 1354 KWh Ele: $73.69

You had 1354 kWh and your bill was $73.69, is this that the whole bill what you paid?

My bill for 1391 kWh was this....

Meter Base Protector SVC Incl TAX ................................$6.34

Energy Charge
First 1000 KWH ...... 1000 kWh @ 4.9000c $49.00
After 1000 KWH ..... 1000 kwh @ 5.8000c $23.07

Fuel Charge
First 1000 KWH ...... 1000 kwh @ 4.9790c $49.79
After 1000 KWH ..... 1000 kwh @ 5.9790c $23.38


*Total electric cost................................. $153.27
Gross Receipts TAX ................................ $3.93
Country Utility TAX ................................. $9.38

Total ..................................................................... $172.92

OK so I can take the $6.34 off the top to compare this $172.92 - $6.34 = $166.58 vs. $73.69 :eek: :mad:


I'm thinking maybe 2300kwh for July isn't to bad (I understand that a Attic Fan maybe better) for a house that is 2333 sq ft. w /pool. But my problem is what the electric is priced not what I pulling.

up2youjoe

.23 KWH here in NY

jeremie

I am just copying and pasting what i get from my ameren bill

we pay .0575 per kwh

markmarc

Per month:
Trash $18
Natural gas $33 (summer), $75 (winter)
Electricity $30/$70
Water&sewer $80/$55

reeltrouble1

DJ, last month was 408.00 for the electric bill amount.

As far as what the bill looked like.

Paper, it was paper, you know that slightly thick paper not quite cardboard.

I pay the same rate as you, with the graduated amounts. We have three air conditioning systems one for the upstairs and one for the downstairs and well, then the Woodshed unit. Last month my cost was over 12.00 day for electricity, about the same as gasoline between our four cars. I wonder how much it would be if I put the pool in???

RT1

disneyjoe7

reeltrouble1 wrote:

I wonder how much it would be if I put the pool in???

RT1

(Geek working)
I thinking around 426kwh per month, for 6hr a day. So around $45 bucks a month.

reeltrouble1

Geek,

I am only going to fill the pool half way, just the deep end, the other half I am going to skateboard in, this should save some filtering costs.

Well, seems electricty costs vary across the country, not suprising though.