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I have a 1910 villa and a Vietnamese wife with a new born. She has been here for 14 years but still likes it warm. I'm working on getting her to understand tha
by xupybd 3y ago
I have a 1910 villa and a Vietnamese wife with a new born. She has been here for 14 years but still likes it warm.
I'm working on getting her to understand that we don't need to heat rooms we don't use.
But $280 is cheaper than I pay during summer. I'm averaging about 20KWHs in the summer. At the moment it's closer to 75KWHs per day. Our hot water is all gas. About 1 x $150 bottle per month in the summer. That moves up to 1 per week in the winter.
Double glassing is in the wish list. Then wall insulation. But we have a mortgage and an asbestos roof to deal with first.
- gedy 3y ago> 75KWHs That's a lot of energy per day, mate. I'm in the US and not particularly careful with usage and I'm averaging about 25KWH a day. You might want to get a usage meter that lets you check various appliances/lights/switches in real time to find the heavy usage
- crooked-v 3y agoYeah, that kind of thing makes me think 'why do they have six refrigerators?' or 'is the electric dryer running literally 24/7?'.
- xupybd 3y agoThree chest freezers, one fridge freezer, dryer goes five to six times a day, three heat pumps and two radiant electric heaters.
- emmo 3y agoSo you live an unbelievably excessive existence.
- xupybd 3y agoNo, I don't think so. I just want to keep my family warm and in clean clothes. We do need to get down to less freezers but we have some home kill that we need to get through first.
- doix 3y agoHow big is your family and how big is your house? Your situation is so far from anything that I've experienced in my life that I cannot even imagine it. How can you use a dryer that many times per day? Do you even need to use a dryer? Can't you air dry things? I normally don't stay in places with a dryer and just let things air dry. If you're running heating/ac, they normally lower humidity so things dry really fast anyway.
- xupybd 3y ago2 adults, 2 infants. 110 Sqr metres. 6 a day is on the high side. It's probably an overestimate. When there are no new borns we might dry 3 loads a week. But the house is a work in progress. The curtains blow on a windy day.
- keyle 3y agoYeah 75KW per day is massive. Throw whatever money you have left in solar.
- xupybd 3y agoI suspect insulation would make a bigger difference than solar.
- pgporada 3y agoYou can get a hot water tank insulation blanket that should help a little bit.
- xupybd 3y agoWe use a califont gas hot water heater. So it's on demand, no storage tank.