I ordered heating fuel today. This will be our second fill up of the season. We carried about 80 gallons over from last year.
We have a 200 gallon fuel oil tank in the basement. So I check it periodically, and call when we need a fill up. It's at 1/8 tank today. We use a smidge over 3 gallons per day when it's cold, so we're probably good for another week, but I'd sure hate to run out.
Heating fuel runs between $3.50 - $3.80 in our neck of the woods, so that's about $11.50 per day to heat the house when it's cold.
My wife and I are usually at odds as to the temp the house should be. I'm usually comfortable at 68, and she would prefer 70. Actually, I think she would prefer 72, but she has settled for 70. Probably most of the time the thermostat is set at 69 during the day. She is usually home all day (SAHM), so we don't have the option of turning it down. We do have a programmable thermostat, so the temp runs at 65 at night. I know some people who run the house temp at 65 all day.
I'm not sure how much money is actually saved by turning the thermostat down at night. We got a valuable lesson in home heating costs the winter we moved from our old house. We moved Feb. 14 (easy to remember Valentine's Day), and didn't have a renter until the following May (or June?). So, we heated that house the rest of Feb. plus March and April. I believe we had the thermostat set at 52. Plus, because that thermostat was also programmable, we programmed it to heat for 15 minutes at noon. To get some warm air blowing around to keep the water lines from freezing.
Anyway, what we found out is that the cost to heat an empty house to 52 degrees isn't terribly different than heating a lived-in house to 68. It was less, of course, but not as much less as I would have expected. I don't remember the exact figures, I just remember being surprised by how much we were spending to heat an empty house. Thank goodness the house has been occupied by renters ever since!
So, I'm still not sure how much, if anything we may be saving by turning the heat down at night, but it just seems like the frugal thing to do.
Heating the House
January 29th, 2013 at 08:48 pm
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January 30th, 2013 at 12:45 pm 1359549942
How can you figure that you use 3 gallons of fuel today? My oil tank gauge does not pinpoint to the gallon what you're using.
January 30th, 2013 at 02:01 pm 1359554483
Yes, little kids are in the house.
As far as how I came to that 3 gal. figure - the tank was filled on Dec. 4. On Jan. 29, we had 1/8 tank. Tank is 200 gal., so 175 gallons used over 56 days = 3.125 gallons average per day during that period. Most of the period of time was "cold".
But, no I don't know how much was used on a very cold day, like last Tues. and Wed. when the high was 11, as compared to today when it will be in the 40s.