So, I think mine is kind of high for a 1 br apartment....so, I wanna know how much other's pay. I have a ~700sq ft apartment and I keep it around 68 degrees and my bill's are usually around $100-$115 for the winter.

1/26/2007 8:11:20 AM

Thats normal.

1/26/2007 8:26:51 AM

I live in a 2 br about 1050 sqft. and my bill is like 85 or 90. I keep is somewhere between 68 and 70. But I guess that is because I'm on the 3rd floor. In the summer, my bill is around 120.

1/26/2007 8:57:31 AM

We have a 4 bedroom, three story, kept at around 70 and the bill is always between 90-120

1/26/2007 9:10:02 AM

older buildings/houses will have inferior insulation, and your heating/cooling bills will be higher. Newer buildings are much more energy efficient.

My gas bill was $78 for this past month, for a 2100 sq foot house. In the summer the cooling bill is a little higher (about $125 in July).

1/26/2007 9:20:26 AM

1100sq ft apt ~$100

heat is electric, so i couldn't tell you exactly how much.

2100 sq ft house - gas bill @ 78 def F thermostat $85.

might be higher this month.

1/26/2007 9:25:37 AM

so far my highest this year has been $85 for a 1200 sq ft row house, but i keep it pretty cool (63 degress).

i think this month will be higher, especially since it was 10 degress out this morning.

we have gas heating, so it varies a lot based on market price.

1/26/2007 9:26:35 AM

Four bedroom apartment, and somehow it got to $200 last month, I didn't even know it was on, dunno who kept turning it on. So this month we all agreed to just never turn it on.

1/26/2007 9:31:06 AM

$1450 sq ft 2-story townhouse, heat is kept at 70, electric bill is typically between $100 and $115

1/26/2007 9:49:02 AM

last year my gas bill in Erie, PA was $450 one month

1/26/2007 9:52:29 AM

I have a 2 bedroom, 2 story, 1250sqft townhouse and my heating bill has been ~$60/month for the past few months. I keep my thermostat set at about 67 degrees

[Edited on January 26, 2007 at 9:54 AM. Reason : $60 total for electric bill, which includes running the heat pump]

1/26/2007 9:53:49 AM

i have a 1600 sf free standing house. all of my utilities come in one bill from the city (water, sewer, gas, electricity, trash, etc). my last bill was $387, $244 of which was gas (my heating system is a gas pak).

1/26/2007 9:58:53 AM

1440 sq foot apartment. We run around 90-120 in the winter, but up to 190 in the summer. So there you are.

That's total electric bill fwiw not just ac/heat.

[Edited on January 26, 2007 at 10:50 AM. Reason : .]

1/26/2007 10:49:31 AM

Seems like most people I talk to have higher electric bills in the summer. We're the opposite. $160 winter - $90 summer.

1/26/2007 12:17:54 PM

^ a lot of that depends on the house/apt itself
We're on a second story and our downstairs neighboors over the years have typically apparently liked to keep their heat up reasonably high in the winter- we can tell as the heat comes up from their place into ours, that saves us some money. This apt also seems to stay warm pretty well in the winter.

This backfires on us in the summer however.

1/26/2007 12:31:35 PM

^Yeah, but I'm in a stand alone house. In our case it's probably due to a busted heat pump. A few years back it froze up a lot. We probably defer to the heat strips a lot in the winter.



[Edited on January 26, 2007 at 12:38 PM. Reason : e]

1/26/2007 12:35:57 PM

heating cost - - - $0

its free, but landlord controlled so I have no say in the temperature.

1/26/2007 1:42:40 PM

You live in a dorm?

1/26/2007 1:54:57 PM

i also live in a one bedroom with about 780 square feet...i'm hoping my bill isnt above 60 honestly...some days i keep the heat off and just use my electric blanket

1/26/2007 2:01:10 PM

41 bucks

1/26/2007 3:24:05 PM

i'm not sure how most people are attempting to come up with this unless they just have gas heat and don't use gas for anything else

i have no idea what my heating bill is...

1/26/2007 4:22:16 PM

$19.99.

1/26/2007 6:41:52 PM

2 bedroom apartment, top floor of 2, never more than $65 a month.

1/26/2007 8:41:36 PM

I had the tank filled the other day for about $400. The local assholes at the gas company came and filled my tank again today EVEN THOUGH I NEVER ASKED THEM TO. Just found a damn slip in my backdoor when I went to feed my dogs for another $250! WTF I have never asked to be on a route, just on a call as needed deal. My tank is so big I can usually go 1-2 fills a winter, and this short winter will probably allow me to run 1 tank.

1/26/2007 8:42:58 PM

i live in a one bedroom 800sq ft, my electric bill this winter has ranged from $40-$65.i keep the thermostat set at 67. I only use the heat if it gets really cold though, i just pile blankets on...

1/26/2007 8:48:00 PM

Somehow I fucked up and didn't shut a door to my house over Christmas very well. Wind pushed it open, and I attempted to heat the world for the weekend. I was fortunate my bill that should have been about $80 was only $135.

1/26/2007 8:50:06 PM

Usually over $200 in the winter.

1/26/2007 11:42:21 PM

this past month, i breached $300. (gas and elect. only stove/range on the gas)

but, i live in a 160 year old house with neighbors that are too retarded to shut the front lobby door. avg temp for jan was ~39 degrees here.

baseboard elec. heaters, 4 in all.

its a 2 bdrm apt, that i use as a 1 bdrm with a huge living room.

also, all hardwood floors, poor window heat retention, and tons of other reasons why it's so high

it still sucks however.


major difference from summer, but i have no central air.

1/29/2007 10:52:56 AM

^^^Well you're really freaking luck that nobody robbed your ass, lol.

Quote :

"You live in a dorm?"

No, I live in NYC. And I'd say 90% of the apts in the city have landlord controlled heat. Thats how it goes up here.

1/29/2007 1:43:13 PM

when you pay 10M per sq ft, it is nice to have no heat bill, even if you dont get to control it.

1/29/2007 1:49:33 PM

I lived in a place up north once that had electric heat. I just about shat myself when I saw the first electric bill.

1/29/2007 6:49:24 PM

I've got a 1 bedroom, just over 1000sq ft. I keep the heat around 70 in the winter and pay between 50 and 60 a month.

1/29/2007 6:55:40 PM

My total electric is usually around 50-60. I don't run heat or AC though.

1/29/2007 6:59:21 PM

Electric bill is $80/mo on average, gas heat is about $40. I live in a big building with big windows facing south, so the sun heats up my place a lot. in the summer, the windows heat it up like a greenhouse, so my AC bill goes up to about $120 because I keep it on about 66/67 degrees in the summer.

1/29/2007 7:28:43 PM

Temp is kept at 67 degrees in the winter and 73 in the summer. My low power bill was $36, and my high was $56. I live in a 1BR with 1 common wall on the first floor (all floors above ground) that is ~975 heated square feet.

1/29/2007 7:39:24 PM

1044 sq feet it was $50 for december but somehow only $20 for Nov. when the temperature in Dec was only on avg 4 deg cooler.

I keep it at 69* right now, any lower and i'm too cold. around 75*-76* in the summer. my room is naturally warmer by a few degrees then the apt, buti also use a space heater in my room. My ideal bedroom temp is btw 78-80

1/29/2007 7:47:35 PM

I don't know how big the house is -- it's two stories, anyway, and perhaps a little on the large side -- but it's old as fuck and our gas bill has been $300-320 since November.

1/29/2007 7:59:30 PM

$45 for a medium-sized 1br apartment. I keep the thermostat at around 66-68.

Where does the original poster live? Utilities can vary a lot depending on who's running things.

1/29/2007 8:04:35 PM

After reading this thread I have to say this: Some of you who rent apartments in Raleigh PACK YOUR GODDAMN BAGS AND MOVE TO MY COMPLEX A.S.A.P. I live in a 700 sq. ft. 1 bedroom apartment which I keep at 72 degrees (not 68 like most of you in this thread). The HVAC system is electric, and my entire power bill has not gone higher than $75 so far. It's been above $70 twice, once in the summer and once last month. All other times of the year it stays between $50 and $60.

[Edited on January 30, 2007 at 1:51 PM. Reason : .]

1/30/2007 1:49:51 PM

110 for dec/ 95 for jan with thermostat at 72 (it's on of those programable ones though)

the price dropped last month due to use of the fireplace.

we use gas for the furnace and water heater

1200+ sq ft.

[Edited on January 30, 2007 at 3:03 PM. Reason : sdfgt]

1/30/2007 3:02:00 PM

700 sq ft apt. my total power bill has not gone over $40/mo over the past 5 months

1/31/2007 12:16:33 PM

2500 s.f. house... December was $300 and January was $280... It's killing me.

1/31/2007 12:24:16 PM

2200 sq ft house, gas for heat, hot water, dryer. Dec. was $155 and Jan bill is $176. Something doesnt seem right..esp. since we keep the heat at 60

1/31/2007 12:38:11 PM

Quote :

"2100 sq ft house - gas bill @ 78 def F thermostat $85"

^^ wtf.. do you keep it 85?

[Edited on January 31, 2007 at 12:52 PM. Reason : .]

1/31/2007 12:52:10 PM

Ive had the gas company read my meter wrong (too much) twice . So it becomes hard to track when your bills come back negative.

1/31/2007 1:19:10 PM

I have a 1 br, 850 sq ft and I keep the heat bt 70 and 75 depending and my bill is like $40, most its been is $50

1/31/2007 1:34:24 PM

hundred bucks.

1/31/2007 2:29:10 PM

1484 sq. ft., gas heat, i have one of those programmable thermostats that varies between 60-73. last month's bill was $107.

1/31/2007 2:45:26 PM

$94 gas heat in January, 700 sq ft apartment. The house is over 100 years old, so the gas bill in February is going to be awful I think I'm going to set it a few degrees lower and use the electric space heater when I'm actually home.

2/3/2007 10:14:09 AM

My gas bill was $115 for January. 1100sqft house. 40yo = not great insulation. I keep it low 60s most of the time and the timed thermostat bumps it to high 60s for a couple hours in the morning.

2/3/2007 1:22:57 PM