So, some of you may know that I ran a bunch of gas line in my house, so that I can switch to propane appliances. I'm still leaving the electrical plugs in place just they will go unused for the time being. So in January, I bought a gas dryer , and in 1 month my electric bill went down about $100. I couldn't believe it. Now, just yesterday I installed a new gas water heater. I can't wait to see how much much I will save monthly after that. How about you guys and gals? Anyone make a switch that really impacted your bills ....whether good or bad?
Wow, what is your electric rate?! Maybe your dryer was full of lint in the blower, not moving any/much air... I pull ours apart every year or so, those lint screens don't catch it all! We are all electric, except for heat... average about $70-75 mo, all in...that's family of 4. ($0.12/kWh here taxes/fees included)
Wow, that is a lot of savings. My dryer doesn't use nearly that much electricity. Being single, I only use it twice a week anyway. This time of year, I vent it indoors to recoup the heat and the humidity (that won't work for everyone's situation, but works well in mine).
When I was a bachelor my electric bill wasn’t $75 a month and $35 of that was having power at house. A dryer that cost $100 a month I would be buying clothes pins
People forget, deregulation just means that they can all jack rates as high as they want, as long as the proper pockets get lined...
Our electric The electric rate in my small town is .105, ten and a half cents. But my wife is always doing laundry, so dryer and water heater run a lot.
I went the opposite direction. Gas to electric. Couldn't be more satisfied. At worst our entire monthly electric charge is $120 for house and garage. No idea what our electricity rate is. Must be extraordinarily low? Could be. I darn sure know what the gas rate always is I would rather cook on gas however! Glad it's working out so well. Nice savings.
Oh yeah I know, national average is of .14 cents. But if I'm seeing saving already..... Oh and I do keep my dryer clean. About every 2 years or so, I take it outside, take it apart and clean it.
Well now from reading all these post I am going to pull my dryer all apart including the blower and clean it Usually I just pull apart and clean the exhaust piping
Chris at least you got 7 years out of it hopefully the weather is dry for you and the changeover is a smooth one
I hate a GFCI on a sump pump! Put a standard receptacle in there and save your money...99.9% there's nothing wrong with the pump, it'll run for 7 more years...BTDT!
I have read that a sump pump is supposed to be plugged into a regular outlet There is something with a sump pump that GFCI outlets don’t like
Submersible one. Crock is deeper than my arm is long (2.5ft Dia, about 36+ inches deep) The one that it replaced disintegrated from age. The one I just pulled not savable ,overheated, float switch must have stuck on. New only only took about 2 minutes to empty crock ( habor freight unit 1hp)
I am coughing up around $80 month for juice when the a/c isn’t running & about $135 if the a/c is running, all depends on how many lights Mama leaves on & windows/doors she leaves open. Everything is propane, you couldn’t pay me to use electric water heater, dryer or oven. We would use less propane if I wasn’t the only one using the solar clothes dryer we have.
