Bob, I'm retired, it's cold outside, and I have cabin fever. So I looked at 2013 electric bills. Keep in mind my house is 2000 + square feet. I built a new house around the old house in 1991. I put 20,000 brick on it. Over insulated, new anderson casements, new doors, 18 inches of insulation in ceiling, R20 walls, air tight.
I used 2013 numbers, starting January-April and November and December 2013. total electric bill $1025.50 My total electric bill from May to Oct is $291.60. This summer was unusal. If it got 85 in the day, at night the low may be 65, average 75. With brick, the inside temp stayed around 75 without the A/C running much.
So if I subtracted $291.60 from $1025.50, I would say it cost me $733.90 to heat my house for 6 months using baseboard electric heat.
There is no way I will ever think of using wood.
This past Saturday, I helped my boy put 67 bags of insulation in his attic. He said his heat pump would never shut off. He even switched it over to total electric. After the insulation, he said his furnace now cycles with the record cold temps.
In 1985 my dad passed. Mom couldn't figure out how she was going to pay NIPSC the electric and gas bill, which was around $500. Dad even used wood.
We filled her attic with insulation, insulated the floor. Next month NIPSC came out and changed her electric and gas meter. Her total bill dropped to $135. NIPSC thought she tampered with the meters.
Where I live, for the past 30 years, insulators will come out and for $.50 a cubic feet, blow in fiberglass. My boy said they wanted over $1/cubic feet to blow ground up newspaper. Almost 3 times that amount for fiberglass.
ALL I CAN SAY IS INVEST IN INSULATION BEFORE YOU INVEST IN WOOD. George
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