I have a 1000 sq ft house and my gas bill gets up to $400 per month in the winter. Do you know if it would be less expensive to run electric heaters in every room or us the gas furnace??
Depends on the price of gas and electricity in your area. In times past gas has been cheaper. Now it depends on the efficiency of your furnace…..how old it is, etc. A better idea for this year and the next few is to increase the insulation in your attic, add to walls if possible, check all the windows and door and reweather seal as necessary…….do more to prevent heat loss.
You may find if you can limit the rooms used in winter, add a supplemental electric heater for the room and only use as necessary, you can cut the heating bill.
I will be living in a third floor studio (about 400 sq. feet) in Chicago. The management has recently installed electric baseboard heat, therefore I was not able to get price quotes, before signing the lease. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with electric baseboard heat and how much it costs during the winter months? What would be a cheaper alternative? I signed a lease for a year – so I would not be able to make any major changes. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Kerosene heaters, propane heaters, or prefeerably natural gas heaters. Just have a vent for the exhaust.
Electric baseboard heaters are energy inefficent.
Electric is the most expensive source of energy.
And baseboard heating is even worse.
I live in montgomery county PA. Would it be cheaper overall to own an electric dryer or a gas dryer? I also have a gas stove…so I would like to know if my overall utility cost would go down or up?
Gas is WAY cheaper then electric.
Never really thought about this untill now. Ive currently got a gas kettle but thinking of buying a cheap electric kettle for speed. Usually make a cup every 2/3 hours. Just wondering which would work out cheaper?
I would say that an electric kettle will be cheaper to run…they boil more quickly than a gas one.
With gas, there’s more heat lost by passing around the outside of the kettle than is going into the water….That is only my own thought on the subject.
Never really thought about this untill now. Ive currently got a gas kettle but thinking of buying a cheap electric kettle for speed. Usually make a cup every 2/3 hours. Just wondering which would work out cheaper?
don’t buy CHEAP because it will be expensive in the short run already, the kettle will burn out, or the thin plastic will deform and definitely for the cheap kettles you will not get a new heating unit..
buy a small kettle that heats up only one or two cups or maximum a liter of water, Bosch, Moulinex have things like that.
very convenient and quick also. and because you heat up only the amount of water that you need, it is also economic.
I’m a high school student who wants to build an electric motorcycle as my senior project and i want the cheapest build while maintaining high quality. (as you can tell from my question, I’m not very experienced at this)
I’m not sure, but I think 72 volt will be more efficient. David N is correct, that a golf cart would be great for parts. But for a motorcycle, you’re probably going to need Lithium Ion batteries (to fit enough on), which are very dangerous, and can cause fires from shorting out. If you want it to actually go above 20mph, you’re probably going to need a stronger motor.
I’m starting to learn to play guitar and i don’t want to spend a load of money on a guitar. What is a nice rather low costing brand?
Both Ibanez and Jay Turser make great beginner guitars at reasonable prices. Also, the Agile brand http://www.learnelectricguitarnow.net/agile-electrics – very, very good guitars with high quality cratsmanship, parts and playability for the money.
I have intruments from all three brands (as well as higher end instruments), and they are all good. Have sold my Ibanez though.
I’m moving from a 900 sq./ft. apartment that runs entirely on electric to an 1100 sq./ft. apartment that uses gas for heat and hot water, and electricity for the rest of the utilities. I live in Cary, NC. Will this combo of gas/electric be more expensive for me, less expensive, or roughly even out to about the same? Any info would be appreciated! Thanks!
You always do better on gas. Not by much in NC, since you do not have a cold winter to heat. The summer will use air conditioner powered by electricity. The hot water cost is very little to begin with.
Just bought a house that has an oil system to heat the house, and also one to heat the water. Would it be cheaper to heat water if I got an electric heat tank installed to heat the water instead? I have no access to gas and I know the environmental issues. I am purely looking for cost to operate. Thanks
prices go up and down- right now an electric water heater would be cheaper- when the price of oil goes down, the price to heat you water goes down
Is there anything that makes it more expensive such as higher standing order or something like that?
Commercial electricity rates are more than domestic consumers but industrial rates are the lowest.
