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Originally Posted by docholly
Morning..  "do I fire up the central AC or just tough it out for 2 days with fans?" I looked at my electric bill for april last year and it was 378.00 without the AC and last month was 325. what to do???  |
Do what we did and buy an evaporative cooler. We got 2 from Costco for 300 - 400 each and best investment we ever made. We only ran our central AC maybe a week last year total, and our electric bills were about 2/3rds of what they were the year before.
I just looked 2006 before coolers, our august electric was $306. 2007 after coolers it was $190 and last year was really hot.
It is even more impressive when you realize the cost of electricity out here went up in that time almost 30%.
Not sure how big your place is, but the ones they had at costco are for 1000 - 1200 square feet. Right now, we are just running 1 (the other is in the greenhouse, need to buy another) and it will freeze us out when it is below about 100 out, and our place is just under 1600 square feet.