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Originally Posted by B&DCalgary
How old is your house, and how large? There's no way a house built to today's standards should cost that much to keep cool in the summer (or conversely keep warm in the winter). My house (3,500 sq.ft.), built three years ago with low solar heat gain windows and properly insulated costs less than $100 for electricity in the summer with full a/c and my highest gas bill for heat (last January) was $87. It sounds like you either have a monster house or it's old enough that it's framed with 2x4's instead of 2x6's, has low quality windows, and/or isn't insulated to the same standard as today's houses. When I'm talking of standards, I'm referring of course to Canadian construction standards (seeing as you're from Edmonton), which are considerably higher than U.S. standards and several times more energy efficient.
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Thanks for the input all of you.
3500 SQF + 500 SQF office 12' Ceilings. Only Two yrs old 5 and 3 ton Central Air and the other one for the office, all damn airconditioners has very good efficiency rating.
I've got all bells and whistles when I got this home, including tinted glasses and top of the line windows. Our builder, William Lions don't do the cheap job.
I have a supersized ceiling fans in every single rooms. The airfilter system we have that we hardly run. We paid way over million for this home.
It bugs the heck out of me when my house keeper makes stews during the daytime w/o the fan on and blasting airconditioners.
I'll check with the builder to see we have better options of insulating my home. I am looking into solar power since we got plenty of suns out here. It should payoff in long run. I'll also look into SCE rate schedule. Obvioiusly it penalizes me for being anoveruser.
Thanks again. I keep you posted as I come up with solutions.
07-18-2006, 01:52 PM
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