Submitted by needsab0uttreefiddy t3_zmckx4 in newhampshire
Loosh_03062 t1_j0bq9eh wrote
Reply to comment by Ogre213 in Why are so many of the homes dated? by needsab0uttreefiddy
Yup. My 40 year old house is still running with the original electric stove in the kitchen. The timer and clock have been shot for years but it still makes food hot when I need it to. There's no need to replace it with some overengineered electronically controlled glass top which will tell me the temperature to within a tenth of a degree on three scales, call my mother in law when I make one of her favorite recipes better than she does, send my phone a ding when there's one minute left, and shatter if I put my 7qt cast iron Dutch oven down wrong.
By the same token the break even point on new thermally efficient oversized windows is likely beyond the point where I'll be living here. I'll stick with storms and screens and hold the inner windows up with paint sticks while I'm at it. In fifteen years my gas bill for heat, hot water, and clothes dryer hasn't been about $1K.
AKBigDaddy t1_j0c1z06 wrote
In winter I spend almost $1k/mo on propane. Now that the electricity rates have gotten insane, I spend $700/mo on electricity. You're damn right I'm eyeballing super efficient replacements for several older items in my home.
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