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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I cook. Probably saves us thousands a year compared to some people.

Don't buy organic or much packaged food.

Make our own coffee. Always. Drip. Store brand. It's fine.

Installed mini-splits to replace underfloor heating. I expect that's saving us thousands a year, as well. We only turn on the units in the rooms we're using.[/quote]

Can you explain mini splits and underfloor heating?[/quote]

Minisplits:
https://www.alpinehomeair.com/categories/air-conditioning-cooling/ductless-mini-splits

Underfloor heating is what we have in the Southwest -- it's basically water pumped through pipes under the floor. A lot of places use it in bathrooms, we had it in the whole house. Crazy expensive and wildly inefficient.

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it all depends on the details. i designed my house to use underfloor heating, the same gas boiler is used for our hot water. our house has a thick concrete slab over an excavated basement, and has three shared masonry walls. the house has a huge amount of thermal mass, and even when the outside temps were in the teens the heat only ran for a few hours a day. the heat is zoned so in unused rooms the heat will only come on to maintain 60 degrees. it costs less to heat my 4500sf house than it did to heat my 1200sf condo with forced air.

obviously, this would be insanely expensive if we were using an electric hot water system or electric in-floor radiant. (the latter is what tends to be put on for bathroom retrofits, and the heat is on a timer much like a shower fan.)[/quote]

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