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[quote=Anonymous]We have an old (1870s) single family home with lots of areas and we had really high bills after moving in that were driving us crazy.  We had the home energy audit thing through BGE and I found it a total waste (audit didn't tell us shit and we felt it would be helpful on our old and complicated house to tell us the problem) and scam.  The companies jack up their prices and then give you a rebate off of their jacked up prices.  Way cheaper to get our insulation done outside of that program.

I do think we learned that most heat escapes through the roof, so insulation is way more critical than new windows.

We thought we were goners, with so many issues, but turns out nope!  Our bills have halved this year and here's why.  We abandoned the damn heat pump and put in a high efficiency gas furnace system.  We almost doubled down on the heat pump because we weren't thinking the gas furnace would solve our problem and we needed to be in the house mid-last winter (freezing Jan. and Feb.) for 3 weeks without heat to await the gas line being run to do the gas furnace.  But we went for it and thank god!  House is actually now warm (heat pump was $$$$ and we were cold) and bills are halved and now more than reasonable.

We keep our heat at 67 in mornings and evenings and then 64 during day while at work (poor dog) and 62 at night while sleeping.[/quote]

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