Hello again, and it's getting longer between posts.
I have been working too much, and I'm not getting my projects done around here fast enough, but I have some serious time off coming up soon, so I've been ordering goodies, so hopefully I'm close to some real progress, which if I get the gumption, I might even take some more recent pictures and post them.
Anyway, we are fabulously impressed with our summer electric bills, so I thought I would make a little chart here with cost and kilowatt hours. Please note that we keep the house at 76 degrees F during the summer, and at that temp the humidity usually worked out to about 40%, which is dramatically less than outside.
For those of you that have to turn your A/C down to 60 degrees at night, your results may differ...
Month kWH Dollars
Jan 2566 $204.71
Feb 1661 $135.38
Mar 1704 $138.68
Apr 1304 $ 110.74
May 1877 $ 170.70
Jun 1452 $133.90
Jul 2077 $188.02
Aug 2809 $251.41
Sep 1824 $163.18
Now that we are into November, things are pretty much just the lighting load and very little A/C, but the house still shows some interesting behavior. For example, it was relatively cold outside last night, mid 50's, and we had the windows open last night until I got cold at about 2 AM, so I closed them. Woke up this morning and the A/C was actually running to cool things off for a minute. I guess what that shows is a great big thermal lag from the air heated in the attic yesterday, and long term effect of the walls still being warmer than you would think from the summer.
Hope all is well!
