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Monthly Hydro Use, What is Everyone At?

Mad Mike said:
My neighbor did a cool solar setup for his pool -- he laid PEX down under the pool deck pavers. It pumps a crazy amount of heat when the sun is out, the only mechanical part is a 3 way jandy valve. Cost him about $300 for the setup and it keeps his pool at 82f.
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I would do that next time more for the benefit of cooling off the stones. On a hot day, I need to hose down the stones or you burn your feet. Probably happy with a pump running slowly too. Just monitor the output temp to see what pump speed is required to keep things under control. Basically a hydronic heated floor acting in reverse. If you wanted to get really fancy, you could heat the loop and have an expensive warm deck in the winter.
 
Scuba Steve said:
I have looked at that approach the biggest issue for me is the pool is warm by the time I want to cool the house the AC and pool heater rarely run at the same time. In my case it is even easier to implement as I would just need a heat exchanger and direct the ground source to use the pool water as the coolant.

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That was part of my thinking too. In the summer, even without heating the pool often creeps up higher than I want (can get to mid 80's) and I need to leave it uncovered to drop temp. Although covering the pool all the time is a pain and looks like crap. With an endless supply of "free" heat, I would probably leave it open and use cover free to minimize water loss.
 
3-story townhouse.
2 adults, 1 toddler <2yrs, a dog.
electric stove, gas instant water heater and gas furnace.
do have a turtle with pump and lights, pump only runs off-peak hours.
lots of smart stuff. network PC always on for cameras and storage. one all-in-one usually on.
wife is always home.

last months bill was $108.52 @ 584 kWh, pretty average, goes up obviously in the summer to almost 800kWh
EV arrived beginning of March so we'll see how much that adds. (as long as it's less than $100/mo I'm happy)
 
killvino said:
2 adults, 1 toddler <2yrs, a dog.
electric stove, gas instant water heater and gas furnace.
do have a turtle with pump and lights, pump only runs off-peak hours.
lots of smart stuff. network PC always on for cameras and storage. one all-in-one usually on.
wife is always home.

last months bill was $108.52 @ 584 kWh, pretty average, goes up obviously in the summer to almost 800kWh
EV arrived beginning of March so we'll see how much that adds. (as long as it's less than $100/mo I'm happy)
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turtle?

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Oh I get it. A real turtle. That can't take too much power. Any power it uses in the winter also reduces your gas bill a bit.
 
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I was seriously curious what teh "turtle " was LOL.

Friend has a really large salt water aquarium , its expensive to operate considering we cant eat any of the fish.
 
crankcall said:
I was seriously curious what teh "turtle " was LOL.

Friend has a really large salt water aquarium , its expensive to operate considering we cant eat any of the fish.
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my parents had one, dad's wish growing up was to have a tank. they had it built into a wall.
guess who did all the work taking care of it?
next house, they did not build one.

have to say though it was beautiful and great to look at. I could spend hours watching all the different things interact.

this is also not my turtle, it was passed down to us after my grandfather in law passed away. Our dog was also a 'housewarming gift'.
I wonder how much money I could save if I wasn't so nice.
 
There is a large peice of live coral in Ripleys aquarium in Toronto that came out of my buddys fish tank , it was that large, he had to downsize tanks in the divorce and this piece of corral was apparently worth buck , since you cant harvest or move coral around these days.

In the divorce he gave up a house in Bronte ( for the second time) , a 40ft boat , and the fish tank. He only missed the fish.
 
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