How much is everyone’s home utility costs the last month for electric, gas, water? Obviously you have to provide additional details similar to what I did below to try and get to apples to apples. Our water bill always seems $20-$50 higher compared to my friends and family.
Family of 4
3000 sq ft home
Meck county
Gas heat and water heater
Older hvac units
Home built ~1990
Trash pickup not included in these
Electric $187
Gas $198
Water $122
I’ll go look mine up. Another added interesting piece of this would be when was house built or renovated and how old is your hvac unit.
Mines on autopay, so I just pretend that means it’s free.
Our gas bill was $450!! I do have a baby and a stay at home wife so no breaks on heating during the day. It’s normally $150-200 this time of year.
I have two high efficiency furnaces. House built in 2001.
We also used our gas fireplace a lot which is pretty high BTU which contributed as well.
clt says beware of space heaters. they use bigly power
Home built in 1976 one level and finished basement
3700 sq ft
HVAC system installed in 2011
Thermo at 70 during the winter - 75 during summer
Family of 4 (one teenager who routinely finds new ways to waste money)
Gaston
E - 160
G - 236
W - well life baby! - $100 in filters every 3 months
I really need new doors, lose a ton of air thru doors and 2 older large windows that are floor to ceiling. All other windows are less than 15 yrs old.
If I’m speculating correctly about the genesis of the OP, yes, I believe the utilities are trying to make up for lost revenue from Helene.
Well, it was damn cold last week and, at least in RVA, yesterday was the first day since Christmas that morning temps didn’t start out at below freezing. Having said that, my electric bill for a two story house was a little over $300. I was expecting worse.
What was your gas bill if any?
I only have gas for the gas logs. My last bill was like $52. I expect the next one to be higher given the recent colder temps.
I live in the town of York, SC. My home is 4500 squ/ft. It was built in 2011, and 2 of the heat pumps are that old. The 3rd heat pump is 7 years old. I am on well water, so no water bill. I do have to get the softner and filter checked every year, which is $250. And, i have to buy a bag of salt once a month. I am on a tankless gas water heater. It is just the wife and I living there. Other than that:
Gas bill: $25/mth
Electric bill: $250/mth avg
(this past month was $366!!!)
4500 SF for two people?
How many days do you and your wife go without running into each other?
Normmm anxiously waits to see what ghostofchlt utilities costs are for his 12,000 sqft LKN mansion.
clt is off the grid, no bills
Well, we also have 5 cats.
Gas: $311 (holy #%^#)
Power: $114
Both due 3/3. My details in first post. Never had a gas bill over $300 before!
Just paid my latest electric bill. $494.00!!!
Just paid $552 to Duke yesterday and I have a new 21 SEER heat pump. My previous highest was $420!
How can most families afford these utility prices?
It’s gotta be crippling for far too many.
If it wasn’t bad enough that the price of real estate was forcing people to move out of the city limits now your utility bills are too much as well.
$3k for a typical low end ($450k less 20% down) new home mortgage plus another $700 in utilities… Brutal.
Inflation is brutal at stripping away wealth and earnings of ordinary citizens.