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Old 07-22-2007, 10:28 AM
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Default not to sure but.....

If your cutting 15 mins from a typical shower, lets break it down.
15 x7=105 thats one hour and fourty five mins a week your saving.
105 x 4=420 thats seven hours a month off your water bill/electric bill.
Thats is you have an electric hot water heater. If you do, thats 14 cycles, based on it taking a half hour to fill/heat. So im sure with that the savings are enormous. I know since i started cutting back on showers timer, lowered tank one spot, wash in cold water only, replaced bulbs with the 3 packs special for 8 dollars at walmart, my typical summer bill, went from 250a month, to 100. Although that may still seem high, im in a co op district, that dont have peek hours either. I just called again other day to check, still no peak hours, theres a base price for first 1,000 kw used, then a cost per kw used after that. I use central air too. I saved 150 a month just doing those few things. One of my kids changed my water temp and i didnt check, so for 3 weeks approx, i been washing in warm, which put my bill up again this month to 200. So i would assume, that you could save up to 50 a month with a regular electric/ 100 co op per month if you did that alone, just based on electric hot water heater. Thats just a guestimate tho. You would have to try it and see. Even if you did that 5 min one, every other day instead of everyday, that would still be 3 1/2 hours saved a month. You should at least try that and hit us up with the information here, we would love to know.
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