If your home is about 2500-3000 sq feet...

Sunflower777

What is your heating bill??

We're in Michigan and ours was $350 last month. That seems really high to me. I keep trying to tell DH we need to weather proof our house better, but he insists there's not much we can do, short of ripping out the crappy builder's grade windows and dropping thousands on replacement windows. ?

kertybird

Our house was built in 2004 so it is very energy efficient.  We have lower bills than most.  In the winter we run around $50 a month, in the peak of summer around $100.  We are in So Cal.

Temp374386125003286

$134 last month- highest ever $203

cokt

Ours is a little over 3000 sq feet and I think ours was like $150 in CO. We put more insulation in the attic, and we have nice windows though. In DS's room it was still cold, so we bought that plastic stuff you put on the windows and seal with a hair dryer to make it warmer. It has helped and was easy to do, you just peel it off in the spring. We got it at Home Depot for less than $10.

Yodajo

We're in MI too and our bill was $250 I believe last month.  Our house is about 2700 sq ft.

Vanessa11

We have a 2800 sq ft home built in 2007. We live in MN, our bill this month was $144. Jan/Feb the bill is usually around $175. Our windows are not the best and we have two very large windows on the north side of the house which get really drafty if there is any type of wind. We use that plastice stuff to seal them in the winter time. We have to get the type for a sliding door since the windos are so big so it ends up being $15 or so for each of those 2 windows. The regular size is around $5 or so. I think next winter we are going to seal all the windows and see if that make a difference.

 We keep the main floor and the second floor at 68 degrees in the winter during the day and 64 at night. The basement (dual zone heating) is set at 55 degrees unless we are having people over and we are going to be down there, otherwise we only hang out in the basement in the summertime.

Marce921

Well if it makes you feel any better, our house is only 1550 sq ft and ours was $260 last month!

JOEBunny

Ours is about $250 a month.  It is 2500 square feet.  1/2 was built around 1920, the other 1/2 in 1998.  The windows in the new part are pretty crappy the guy who renovated it chose really cheap windows.

oparcm

We have 3100 sq ft. house that was built in 2006 and our heating bill is about 350 a month in the winter.  If we use our soapstone wood stove we can cut that to about 240.  We live in MA and gas and electric are high priced though.

triplea1819

I live in NH and have oil heat.  2200 sqr ft house.

 in the middle of winter last year 275.  Summer- with AC on 200.  fall/spring we can get it down to 100. 

 that is just our electric bill.  We then pay 400 in oil about every 4-5 weeks.

 we have drafty windows.  we put the tape things at the bottom of the windows.  and we close shades a lot.  we need to invest in those sealants on the windows to help the bill.

also we have no attic, our bedroom is lofted.  So we have very little insulation between the roof and the house.

REOM

We have oil heat, and pay about 3K per winter. 

true_norskie

We have 2500 sq ft finished (3500 incl the unfinished basement).  Our house is brand new and built to be pretty energy efficient.  We're in MN and our last gas bill was $107 -- I was shocked at how low it was.  We easily pushed $160 in our 1600 sq ft townhouse.  Our electricity bill was about that, too, though.