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Originally Posted by mgatepi

I have a HEat Pump with Oil as the back up. If we relied strictly on this it would run probably $400+ per month easily to heat our house. About 10 years ago I put in a Harmon wood pellet stove and use it in the evening. Our house warms up very quickly and is comfortable. We burn about a ton of pellets a year at about $280 a ton. So bottom line we are spending about $225 a month and have a comfortable house. Our house is 2500 sq ft.

We have a heat pump with electric backup, and the whole system is from 1991. Our highest bill of the year is usually Jan, and yeah, $400+

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

It's not a big hit here.
We heat our 6000 square foot house with gas, some wood, a small amount of electric. If I'm not working in the shops downstairs, I heat the west half of the house with wood and keep the other half at 68 degrees. I keep the bedroom at 66 degrees and use a bed heater to heat my side of the bed before I crawl in. Vicki likes the bed cool.

In December, when we had a week of temps in the 20s we paid $278 for gas.

Lately, Vic is having some kind of issue where she is cold all the time. I find the thermostat set at 73 degrees now and then!! With a week of nighttime temps in the single digits, I'm expecting the next bill to be $330 to $350.

Yowza, 6000sqft! That's a big place. Still, your bill seems very reasonable for that size home.

Originally Posted by fastfredracing

I should probably add, that my teenager was home for 3 weeks. Even though I asked him to keep the fire burning , he never once did, and every day , when I got home, the house was blistering warm , oil furnace just crankin' away .
I bet it drops by $100 this month now that hes gone

LOL! That sounds about right for anything associated with a teen. Thinking back, I think that could have gone 2 ways, either 1 the way it went, or 2 he had a blaze going the whole time and you going through a month's worth of wood for each week that he was home.

Originally Posted by Sooner or later

2600 sqft. HVAC with gas heat. Variable speed compressor and fan. Gas water heater. R79 insulation in most of house. Terrible windows.

Gas and elect combined. Summer and winter about the same. 12 month avg $152.

Wow, nice, lots of insulation and efficient HVAC, FTW!