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December Cold in Minnesota
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Andrew Price wrote: On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:38:15 -0600, Tim McNamara wrote: [---] At 4:15 when I left the workshop to go home, the wind had picked up and the temperatures felt much colder- it's dropped 13 degrees F since 1:00PM to 8F now, and will be dropping to 2F tonight and -14F tomorrow night. Sigh. I'm not a real Minnesotan and I don't enjoy this stuff. That I can well sympathise with - living in Western Europe, to me, those temperatures look really mean. How do you cope with it indoors - double/triple glazing on windows and lots of insulation? I imagine that heating costs must represent a considerable part of the household budget, too. I live in a 100 year old house which doesn't have double glazing but has the usual double-hung inner sashes and storm windows. If you keep the weather seals in good shape, the cold air intrusion is minimal and the heat loss moderate. The house is well insulated and thus summer I had all the old badly damaged siding replaced with Hardieboard, so I will be interested to see if the heating bills are lower. The house is certainly much quieter with the new siding. In the peak (trough?) of winter, the heat bill has been about $200-300 a month depending on energy costs; the local energy monopoly has a program to spread those costs out year 'round- part of the year we are paying in advance of winter and part of the year we are paying off the balance. It ends up being about $125 a month year 'round for natural gas and electricity combined. We pay a little extra to support development of wind power in Minnesota. |
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