I 'spect natural gas was a lot more costly then. The price has come WAY down since fracking (and will probably go way back up now).
-----Original Message----- From: Mercedes On Behalf Of Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 3:21 PM To: Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: Kaleb Striplin <ka...@striplin.net> Subject: Re: [MBZ] More heat pump One more thing, I will say it has been much cheaper with the heat pump than in our other house which is newer and smaller using gas. Our winter electric bill here is usually around $200 a month. Our electric bill there was probably around $130-160 and gas was about $160. So a slight increase in electric but totally cutting out the gas bill. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 17, 2021, at 2:15 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > They do sell dual fuel models that have a gas furnace built in. I have not > dug into it in depth as to exactly how much more expensive they are. In my > case it would have to be setup for propane and would need to have a tank and > line installed. I an ideal world i would install a tank, run the line out to > the shop to run the heaters there, install backup gen and have it run off the > propane, then run a line into the house to use for cooking instead of > electric. Perhaps when the heat pump needs to be replaced get a dual fuel > unit depending on the additional cost. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Feb 17, 2021, at 2:06 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> So here is a small example of the Texas situation. Do you as a homeowner >> go out and spend say $10k to install a propane backup system, tie it into >> your heat pump system, for the minimal amount of time you might need it when >> the temps are below 10F or so, which happens infrequently, or do you just >> deal with infrequent cold spells like that however you can, maybe some >> marginal upgrades or nothing at all. It's your money, how do you want to >> use it? >> >> --FT >> >>>> On 2/17/21 2:57 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: >>> This has been the first time dealing with a heat pump at this low of temps. >>> Basically my observation is that is seems to heat fine without any aux heat >>> at around 22 and above. From about 12 to 22 heats but uses aux heat >>> occasionally. 6 to 12 heats but uses aux heat frequently. And below 6 >>> starts getting to the point heat but is not producing heat and starts going >>> into low pressure lockout, using full time aux heat. Fortunately around >>> here is stays over 20 most of time. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>> O >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
