what kind of $ are you guys paying for electricity each month? how many square feet?

in december for aprox 3,000 square feet using the heater every day......my electric bill was 750 bucks. i nearly craped myself and decided i'd rather freeze. the just got my new electric bill not using the heater at all and it was 210 dollars. the insulation in this building isnt the best...but i didnt think it was that bad!

 

We have 15,000 square feet and our electric bill is under $300 a month. But, we have heated concrete floors which seems to conserve a bunch of energy.

 

the cold just gives you more reason to keep welding

 

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pimp

 

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its kind of funny you say that. welding aluminum seems to be my best heater haha. ive noticed myself making a lot more brackets and intercooler piping kits lately hahaha


heated floors.....thats nice. 15,000 square feet? god damn!

i think that shows the difference between different area's of the country or something. a 500 sq/ft apartment around here....with nobody living in it....the heat set at 65 degree's and NOTHING else turned on (freind of mines) and the bill is still around 220 a month.

 

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its kind of funny you say that. welding aluminum seems to be my best heater haha. ive noticed myself making a lot more brackets and intercooler piping kits lately hahaha


heated floors.....thats nice. 15,000 square feet? god damn!

i think that shows the difference between different area's of the country or something. a 500 sq/ft apartment around here....with nobody living in it....the heat set at 65 degree's and NOTHING else turned on (freind of mines) and the bill is still around 220 a month.</TD></TR></TABLE>THAT'S INSANE!

I live in a 4 bedroom single family home (3,200 sq/ft), with a 3 year old son and wife and we pay around $250 EVERY 2 MONTHS. Granted, our heat is propane ... don't get me started on that bill, but we still cook (propane is for heat only and nothing else), watch T.V., etc.

 

lol...its 70* here in TX :D

 

My electric bill is $96 this month, 3000ft.

 

In the summer of Texas each month comes out to be $650 in a 3,000 sq ft. home. This is being conservative. Sucks that there is only a few electric companies baed around here.

 

My shop is 2500 sq ft with radiant heat in the floors. We run an oil burning boiler. We do burn alot of oil when it's cold out. The shop is so nice and warm though. I find that my employees are much more productive when they are not cold, so I'll find a way to pay off the oil bills

 

Joe, we need to get the hell outta here its to expensive, but i dont konw why

 

1,600sq ft and our electric bill is about $75 a month.

 

3300sq ft, $673 last month.

 

um, get a kerosene heater or two. those things will run all day off of 2 gallons of kerosene and damn near torch you if you get within 10ft of them.



oh...and invest in some insulation....

 

Heated floors...mmmm...I wish I had them in my garage. I'd never leave the garage than...when it comes time to sleep just lay on the nice warm concrete floor wake up and back to work lol

Seriosly tho, isulation and heated floor may cost more at first but dam is it nice. My first time on a heated floor made me almost want to add some cement to the garage floor at home, only this time with the heat.

 

208 dollars last month

 

$78 Wood stoveand torpedo heaters own you .lol i have no insulation at all.. the building was built in the 30's

 

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lol...what I think.

I spent 60 bucks on propane...i have a torch of a space heater...30k BTUs. I fire it in the morning warm it up. turn it off and just freeze up from there out.

 

4200ft/2 with 40-55ft ceilings and we broke $700 last month. 2 radiant gas heaters in the shop and forced hot air in the showroom. Thats keeping it in the high 60s.

 

Wow...

I pay $300 a month for electricity in my 1400 SQ FT townhouse. Everything is electric besides the heater itself which is gas.

 

ever think about getting a waste oil heater and seeing if you can get the local oil change shop to let you have some of there waste

 

I had 1700sqft and the electric was like $60-70 in the winter, if your working you don't need heat

 

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we do this at my family's dealership...overhead radiant waste oil heater...mmmm toasty.

 

Gets to around -10, -20 here.

Its my shop outside my home... 1 large wood stove, garage is all closed in, no insulation, just plywood roof/sofets.

yeah the stove does it very well, i burn old hardwood flooring i get from a mill, its just scraps and its not been coated yet, and kiln dried so it burns well.

Cost is free, just i have to fill the stove every hour or so.. and get wood once a month. It gets nice and warm i just wear a very thin pair of overalls.

Woodstoves

 

whats a heater