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Nesgroup address: alt.building.construction - Date & Time for the message: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:52:47 GMT /

Author of the message: Kris Krieger

Title of the message:
Re: upgrade from R19 to R30

Text of the message:
"Rudy" <NoSpam@no-onehome.net> wrote in
news:eDY2f.152436$1i.38218@pd7tw2no:

>> When I lived in the Vancouver, BC area, the requirements for
>> insulation were low because the climate was supposedly "mild".
>>
>> Because of crappy insulation, for a similarly-sized house, we paid a
>> minimum there of 2X more (sometimes up to 3X more) in heating costs
>> than we'd paid in the *Toronto* area.
>
> When we were in the Vancouver area in the mid-late 1990s, our "equal
> payment" energy (hydro and gas combined) was running ~ $  100-103/mo
> on an annual basis..Didnt know how good we had it then. Total about
> $1200 yr.  The electric rate was ~4 cents US/  5.5 cents CDN  KWH
> then.
>
> We moved to Az in 1998 and built a new home there (R38 ceilings  R 24
> walls) that was 60% larger and the electric rate was 7.5 cents Winter
> and 9.5 cents Summer, or 2-3 times more than the rate in BC.  

No hydro in AZ ;)



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