请教：如何找电力取暖公司？请推荐一下！！！

[wizard]

我刚刚找了个Town House,但不包电和取暖。我要自己找。两个问题：

1。 哪些是比较好的公司？
2。 取暖一个月要多少钱？

多谢！！！！

 

[meditation]

买电暖气不就全省了.电费冬天大概40多吧
(这里好象没取暖公司)

 

[Joy]

Call Ottawa Hydro, and ask a list of Hydro companys.

 

[wizard]

To Joy

Thank you, Joy.

Sounds u v experienced such a situation. Can I ask you more questions?
thanks in advance!

1. Do you have any ideas how much I got to pay for winter heating? per month of course.
2. Which company do u recommend as if u have any experience b4?

Your response is highly appreciated!

最初由 Joy 发布
Call Ottawa Hydro, and ask a list of Hydro companys.

 

[Amanda75]

That depends on your house using gas or oil or electricity heating. If gas heating, I am using Enbridge. And the rate is flexible (depends on current market situation.) . And how big is your house? For a 2000 sqft, if I let heat on about 12 hr/day, I'll spend about $150--$200 per month. It also depends on how isolation ability your house has. I know my colleage's old town house around 1500sqft, cost her around $180 per month for 8 hrs heat per day.

Sorry I have to response in English, I don't have chinese word processor.

Good luck.

 

[KuCaiHua]

How can you turn on the heat 12 hr/day? Do you use programable thermo controller or just turn off the heat when you left the house? Just move into a house, and want to know ways to save money...
Thanks!

 

[wizard]

to amanda

Thank you so much for the information.

I have no ideas how big is the house, the problem is that i have no sense of "sqft", i know only sq meter, sorry about that, i guess that townhouse is kinda small, probably designed for renting, anyway, it is about 50sq meters each floor, 2 floors + a base ment, so, it is about 150 sq meters in total. so, what's ur guess for this please?

and I think i will use gas for heating. How to contact enbridge? make phone calls? they will come and knock my door to install something? or they can make it happen remotely? sorry for those idiot questions. this is my very first time encounter.

Thanks again for your kindly help. thank you!

最初由 Amanda75 发布
That depends on your house using gas or oil or electricity heating. If gas heating, I am using Enbridge. And the rate is flexible (depends on current market situation.) . And how big is your house? For a 2000 sqft, if I let heat on about 12 hr/day, I'll spend about $150--$200 per month. It also depends on how isolation ability your house has. I know my colleage's old town house around 1500sqft, cost her around $180 per month for 8 hrs heat per day.

Sorry I have to response in English, I don't have chinese word processor.

Good luck.

 

[keen_observer]

Do not completely tur off the heating in winter

最初由 KuCaiHua 发布
How can you turn on the heat 12 hr/day? Do you use programable thermo controller or just turn off the heat when you left the house? Just move into a house, and want to know ways to save money...
Thanks!

Words of caution about turning off the heating in the winter. Do not completely turn off your heating in the house, but you can turn the temperature setting to a lower level such as 15degC. Turning off the heating in the house will creat a big problem, because when the house freezes, and the water inside the pipes and the water tank will turn into ice, and it will damage the pipes and the tank as the volume of the ice will grow bigger than it's in the liquid form. In this situation, the act of saving money by turning off the heat in winter will become a costly repair of water leaks in the house.

 

[wizard]

Re: Do not completely tur off the heating in winter

Thank you very much!
It is very very helpful!

最初由 keen_observer 发布


Words of caution about turning off the heating in the winter. Do not completely turn off your heating in the house, but you can turn the temperature setting to a lower level such as 15degC. Turning off the heating in the house will creat a big problem, because when the house freezes, and the water inside the pipes and the water tank will turn into ice, and it will damage the pipes and the tank as the volume of the ice will grow bigger than it's in the liquid form. In this situation, the act of saving money by turning off the heat in winter will become a costly repair of water leaks in the house.

 

[Amanda75]

It isn't that cold turning off your heat for several hours will make your pipe frozen. Usually, when we go to work, I turn off the heat, after I come back, the temperature in house drops aroun 2 degrees. Of course, if you go trave a week or longer, you shouldn't completely turn off your heat. not only that, every year around late fall,when temperature reaches 0 degree, you should drain all your outside pipes (pipes direct to garden and garage), otherwise, they will be burst.

programable thermo controller difinitly is a good product for this. spending $10 on this, will save your several hundrend bucks on heating every year.

Acording your house size, I guess you probably will spend around $150 every month for your gas and electricity.

 

[wizard]

Amanda, u v been greatly helpful. Thank you very much!

I wish I didn't bother u too much!

for the programmable thermo controller, I will buy from service provider? or I can find somewhere - a shopping mall? and Can i install it eaisily by myself?

Appreciated!

最初由 Amanda75 发布
It isn't that cold turning off your heat for several hours will make your pipe frozen. Usually, when we go to work, I turn off the heat, after I come back, the temperature in house drops aroun 2 degrees. Of course, if you go trave a week or longer, you shouldn't completely turn off your heat. not only that, every year around late fall,when temperature reaches 0 degree, you should drain all your outside pipes (pipes direct to garden and garage), otherwise, they will be burst.

programable thermo controller difinitly is a good product for this. spending $10 on this, will save your several hundrend bucks on heating every year.

Acording your house size, I guess you probably will spend around $150 every month for your gas and electricity.

 

[KuCaiHua]

How long will take the house back to normal temparature from 2 degree? I probably need to do the same thing in winter. By the way, I was heard that our gas fireplace is far saving than using the furnace, have you had similar exeperience? Thanks!

 

[Amanda75]

You can buy programmable thermo controller from Canadian Tire. I think it should be easily installed. ( my LG's job, so I don't know how to do it.)

I heard that fireplace is cheaper than furnace too. But I still use furnace. I don't like the smell and you have to clean your fireplace air tube regularly otherwise it's dangerous.