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Posted by Kyle on December 12, 2006, 8:12 am
Rich first asked:
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> I set my thermostat to 60 degrees and then use a space heater to heat the
> office as that is the room I'm in mostly, and that works fine but I'm
> wondering how much money it really saves instead of just setting it to 68
> and leaving it there? I live near Chicago if that helps.
bigjim@backpacker.com suggested:
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> 1. Do what you're doing for a month. Add up gas/electric/oil bills
> 2. Set t-stat at 68 for 1 month. Add up utility costs. Compare. Do
> what's cheaper.
Jeff Wisnia opined:
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> Better find out how many degree days there were in each of those two
> months and use them to adjust your comparisons. without doing that your
> results won't be worth chit.
If you do bigjim's suggestion, check your utility bill - many companies
provide some sort of "per day" cost breakdown and average temperature
over the billing period and the period before. It won't give you an
exact comparison, but might be close enough.
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> office as that is the room I'm in mostly, and that works fine but I'm
> wondering how much money it really saves instead of just setting it to 68
> and leaving it there? I live near Chicago if that helps.
>
> Thanks, Rich