Utility Bills :damn:

[KnickstapeCity]

What kind of 1
Bedroom situation are you in that charges GAS. Since when do apartments charge for GAS.

Breh all small apartment buildings make you pay your own utilities. I know big buildings sometimes you didn’t anything or pay only electricity. It’s owned by a landlord not by a leasing company.

 

[maxamusa]

you can switch your utilities to 3rd parties in some places; try that OP

 

[ROFL_GUY]

If you pay yo bills in full...you a c00n!

Nygga tell em I'll put sumptin on it..............:youngsabo: Bill $150....they getting $40.. Energy company shut off my electric.....I'm callin em up telling em we got old people in the house dat gone die if the ac dont get cut back on.....:youngsabo:real nikka!! my boy told me he pay his...

www.thecoli.com

 

[Unbothered]

I'm in college right now living in a dorm with a roommate so I obviously don't have any utility bills at this moment but when I did have an apartment, my utility bills were never that high.

The highest my bill would be in total (gas and electric together) was no higher than around $55 dollars a month , I'm from NYC btw but used National Grid not ConEd for light and gas services.

I was living in a place where certain things were included so maybe that's why it was never high plus I didn't own a TV so the only appliances plugged in were the refrigerator, stove, and occasional smartphone/laptop charges lol and I hardly ever used my lights expect at night because I'm scared of the dark .

 

[Son Goku]

All electric shyt, no gas. Lowest month was 27 bucks in the summer; highest was $176 in the winter.

shyt averages out to 82 bucks a month with me running the heat around the clock in the colder parts of the year.

 

[Action Mike]

I paid £200 ($240) for gas alone last month and OP complaining about paying 185

Just be thankful you don't live in the UK

3 bills for me bro

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Gas: $400, electric: $650. Now granted my gas and electric are billed bimonthly so those numbers reflect two months.

But late last month I got hit with a $2000 water bill. Called them people in a panic thinking there was obviously some kind of mistake only to be told I'd been flagged for continuous water flow (and we're in a drought so it was like a fine built in too) which meant I probably had a leak somewhere underground. Had a plumber come out and check for a leak, he said there wasn't one underground but that he needed to get authorization to repair a toilet and sink in a guest bathroom from my home warranty company and would be back the next day. Of course it snowed the next couple days so they couldn't get out to me. Waiting to see wtf is going on tomorrow.

@Dafunkdoc_Unlimited since you're in that business, is there a way to avoid the issue that the breh above encountered?

Like is there a way to learn how to read your own water meter so you can keep an eye on it in that situation and it give you an indication that you may have a leak you don't know about?

 

[Texas2step]

My electric bill last month was $1300 because of those 2 snow days smh

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

I'm in college right now living in a dorm with a roommate so I obviously don't have any utility bills at this moment but when I did have an apartment, my utility bills were never that high.

The highest my bill would be in total (gas and electric together) was no higher than around $55 dollars a month , I'm from NYC btw but used National Grid not ConEd for light and gas services.

I was living in a place where certain things were included so maybe that's why it was never high plus I didn't own a TV so the only appliances plugged in were the refrigerator, stove, and occasional smartphone/laptop charges lol and I hardly ever used my lights expect at night because I'm scared of the dark .

Your ex roommate got a condo that's downtown
But she got no furniture in her crib, I been there

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

@Dafunkdoc_Unlimited since you're in that business, is there a way to avoid the issue that the breh above encountered?

Like is there a way to learn how to read your own water meter so you can keep an eye on it in that situation and it give you an indication that you may have a leak you don't know about?

Reading the meter is easy, finding it can be a challenge. Normally, it's in the basement/crawlspace and looks like an odometer, but half the size. One big red hand, a dial with 6 rollover slots, and a small dial or hand. One complete revolution of the big red hand = 7.48 gallons/1 cu. ft. (CCF). Your bill is normally based on 100's of cu. ft., so don't be surprised at numbers in the tens of thousands and higher. To test for leaks, shut all the water off in your home at the outlets/faucets and just look at the meter. If the little hand is spinning/moving, you have a leak.

Ask your water company where the meter is to make it easy.​

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

The bolded was already taken care of when I overhauled my HVAC system. One of the main issues was that the former owners had a 3.5 ton unit when a house of this size required a 5 ton or above which lead to nothing being heated or cooled properly. However that was replaced in 2021 and I also have a swamp cooler installed on the first floor. The registers are closed in any unused rooms and I change the filter out every sixish months.

My electric and gas bills have remained roughly the same but again, I'm billed bimonthly so those totals are for roughly every 60 or so days. I'm also not a miser when it comes to my own comfort so if I'm cold I run the heat as much as I want and if I'm hot, same is true with my AC.

That being said, I'm aware that my entire downstairs is a poorly insulated mess which is why I'm not really tripping over my gas and eclectic bills.

Ahh, gotcha. Next question:. What kinda siding on your home? Asking only to determine most cost-effective way to air-seal and insulate the first floor exterior walls: from the outside or the inside. Either way, I suggest you insulate using blown-in dense-packed cellulose. It's cheap, fire-retardant, and air-seals. You want air-sealing as a priority because air traveling in wall cavities takes your heat/AC with it out of your home.

Looks like this.....

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[Contrefaire]

Ahh, gotcha. Next question:. What kinda siding on your home? Asking only to determine most cost-effective way to air-seal and insulate the first floor exterior walls: from the outside or the inside. Either way, I suggest you insulate using blown-in dense-packed cellulose. It's cheap, fire-retardant, and air-seals. You want air-sealing as a priority because air traveling in wall cavities takes your heat/AC with it out of your home.

Looks like this.....

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Honestly while it could be the siding/insulation what I'm thinking now is that the most likely culprit is the number of downstairs windows and doors that haven't been reinsulated or replaced in the 30+ years since it was built.

On my first floor alone I have like 13 windows, two separate sliding glass doors and two doors leading either directly outside or to my uninsulated garage that also has three different points of exit.

I say this because my second floor doesn't seem to have half as many issues but I also have half as many windows and zero doors on that level.

 

[Jalether]

3 bills for me bro

BrehThis shyt is unsustainable. The media in cahoots with the tories are doing a fantastic job of keeping the public distrated
with stupid American style culture wars and immigration policy BS.

We are at a point where people should be taking to the streets
right now and giving the greedy gas&electric companies and politicians that work

 

[CashmereThoughts]

con Edison was 220 last month. robbery considering my consumption is low

 

[Elim Garak]

con Edison was 220 last month. robbery considering my consumption is low

I say God damn.