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We live where we have to provide our own water pressure. So everytime we turn the tap on a 2400watt pump kicks in. We have 3 fridges, two normals ones and a mi
by muppetman 2y ago
We live where we have to provide our own water pressure. So everytime we turn the tap on a 2400watt pump kicks in. We have 3 fridges, two normals ones and a mini fridge my homebrew lives in.
We have pool, which needs it's 2400watt pump to run for at least two hours a day.
We have 3 air-conditioning units (not counting the forth we have that can heat the pool), it's Winter in New Zealand so we run them most nights. We have 4 computers on pretty much all the time. We have a condenser tumble dryer we use quite regularly.
We are a family of four, our hot water is electric. My daughter spends years in there (which is also using that water pump...)
The big ticket items are the two pumps, the hot water, the fridges and the aircon units.
We also have electric heaters going in Winter.
It all adds up. We do 50kwh a day quite often. Sometimes 80 in summer when all the aircons are on and the pool heatpump is too.
- thedrbrian 2y ago>summer >pool heat pump Wait why are you running a heat pump for the pool in the summer?
- ZenMaxe 2y ago[dead]
- xandrius 2y agoWell, your setup is absolutely full of luxuries. Most people don't have 4x computers running all day, 3x fridges and a (heated) pool. Together lifestyle choices. And then yes, you need to provide your own water pressure too.
- muppetman 2y agoTotally. We are extremely fortunate to have these things. That said, I still think even with the unnecessary fluff taken out, if you're heating your hot water with electricity you'll be using a lot of kWh.
- mkayokay 2y agoWhen I visited the southern island of NZ in 2019 I was shocked how little insulated the houses I stayed in were, considering that the winters are quite cold. For example, most windows only had 1 pane tech. Whereas here in Europe modern windows use 3 panes for better insulation and sound filtering.
- muppetman 2y agoYup! This house has little insulation. We got the downstairs windows double glazed after we moved in but upstairs is still single pane. One day we'll change that... It's very bad for heating/cooling