A Hot New Furnance…and a Smokin’ Low Gas Bill!

TRANE XC95 Gas Heating Furnace-3 Stage

OK- so, while it might seem as if I am doing nothing but electric cars, electric cars, electric cars…in fact, much other greening activity has been happening in Deb’s World, right here at home:

April 30, 2008:

-Old 88,000  single-stage  BTU Natural Gas Furnace (Ran at 100% or 0% meaning “on” or “off”)
-Programmable Thermostat, but only for  different times of day
-Un-Insulated Basement
-End-Cap missing from a basement heating duct (Oops! Didn’t know!)
-Average daily temperature: 45 degrees
-Therms used for the month: 31.1
-Average daily use: 1.1 therm
-Gas Bill:  $59.11

April 30, 2009:

-New 60,000 BTU   TRANE XC95  3 Stage Natural Gas Furnace (runs at 40%, 75 % and 100% as needed)
-New thermostat,  programs for different times of day & for different schedules on different days of the week
-Basement walls insulated
-New End Cap
-Average daily temperature: 47 degrees
-Therms used this month: 1.1
-Daily Average use: too low for PSE to  bother calculating (0.036 terms, according to my calculator)
-Gas Bill: $12.97 (this mostly covers taxes and fees for PSE as opposed to actual gas)

WHAT THE FRIG’ WAS I THINKING ALL THESE PAST YEARS? Yikes!