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Winterizing your house? (pg. 3)
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| Clovis |
Go sweater shopping!
Cook large meals that require ovens, stoves and general all out kitchen warming.
Make like a Magda and make some ing tea!
Note that I live in Los Angeles and have no ing clue what I'm talking about. |
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| lücid |
RJT and i are both big fans of sweaters, large meals, and hot cups of tea.
we're mainly just trying to keep our gas & electric bill lower. it was $255 last month. ouch. :( |
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| Moral Hazard |
| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
RJT and i are both big fans of sweaters, large meals, and hot cups of tea.
we're mainly just trying to keep our gas & electric bill lower. it was $255 last month. ouch. :( |
Holy ! I have a 2300sq foot house and my bills are half that. |
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| Silky Johnson |
Goddamn, thank god heat is included in my rent! I pay my own electric bill, but it's only 40-50 bucks a month.
And +1 on the big sweaters. One of the residents where I work just gave me a beautiful hand knitted wool sweater with leather buttons on it! It's so ing awesome, I love it! It's vintage, too!
Nothing beats hand made . |
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| RJT |
Welp, I totally screwed up the first window I did, but luckily bought enough to sacrifice at least one - so now I've got a the living rooms windows set, and I just need to blow dry the three smaller ones.
The only thing that seems to take a lot of time is blow drying the film - otherwise, no fuss, no muss (though double sided tape can right off). :o |
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| Silky Johnson |
| There's a blow-job joke in there somewhere. |
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| lücid |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
Holy ! I have a 2300sq foot house and my bills are half that. |
lucky. our first bill was $98. then $108. then winter raped us.
paying for gas & electric is definitely one of the negative aspects of living where we live (street parking & shoveling in winter are the other ones), but the positive aspects make up for it. it is hard to get used to though, since i always lived in smaller complex-style apartments where heat was always free and i never paid more than $50 for an electric bill. |
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| Ygrene |
| quote: | Originally posted by Clovis
Note that I live in Los Angeles and have no ing clue what I'm talking about. |
Sig material.
:p |
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| Capitalizt |
Get some thin foam strips from Home Depot and stuff them in the cracks where cold air is getting in. I don't know what they're called..but they are the same type of material that is on the tips of earphones.
It's cheap and works good. |
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| Zoso |
Don't feel bad. We almost exclusively use electric heat, and during really cold spells our bill has been as high as $290. Keep in mind, though, that there are two units: one for the upstairs, one for the downstairs. I grew up with wood heat, and I miss not having it in our current home. My goal is to end up in a house with wood heat again before I die.
Also, I am sorry that in no way was any of the above useful. |
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| lücid |
hey babe - regarding Vinnie's idea about putting a curtain in our front entrance, you should measure the width of that frame and compare it to the width of the shower curtain rod. if they're roughly the same size i think we could get away with hanging a curtain on a nice-looking shower rod up there to avoid drilling into the wood.
Zoso - wtf is wood heat? |
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